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Vieux Lille
Lively old quarter of Flemish brick gables and grand squares, the cultural capital of the French north.
3 km · about 5 min drive
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Marcq-en-Barœul
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About Marcq-en-Barœul
Marcq-en-Barœul is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Wasquehal, 59km from De Panne Beach.
Marcq-en-Barœul is in France. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Wasquehal, about 4 km away.
Marcq-en-Barœul (French pronunciation: [maʁkɑ̃ baʁœl] , lit. 'Marcq in Barœul'; Picard: Marke-in-Bareul; older Dutch: Marke) is a commune in the Nord department in the Hauts-de-France region, northern France.
It is a suburb of the city of Lille, and is immediately adjacent to it on the northeast. It is theRead more
sixth-largest component of the Métropole Européenne de Lille. Marcq-en-Barœul is known as the most affluent suburb city of Lille, it is part of the 'Triangle d'or' (Golden triangle) of Lille. It features expensive real estate, especially alongside the Grand Boulevard and Hippodrome des Flandres racecourse. The city is also home to one of the campuses of the elite international private collège and lycée active bilingue Jeannine-Manuel. Furthermore, the city is home to the Jacques Delors European School of Metropolitan Lille (École Européenne de Lille Métropole Jacques Delors), one of the only accredited European Schools in France.
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What is there to see near Marcq-en-Barœul?
Within an hour or so of Marcq-en-Barœul: Vieux Lille (3 km), In Flanders Fields Museum (25 km), Menin Gate (25 km), Louvre-Lens (33 km).
Are there any good drives near Marcq-en-Barœul?
The nearest famous roads are Koninklijke Baan Coast Road, Chimay Street Circuit and Brouwersdam.
Where is Marcq-en-Barœul?
Marcq-en-Barœul is in France, about 4 km from Wasquehal.
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- Population
- 0
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- France
- Timezone
- Coordinates
- 50.6667, 3.0833
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Worth the detour from Marcq-en-Barœul
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
museum
In Flanders Fields Museum
Set in Ypres' rebuilt Cloth Hall, this museum tells the harrowing story of the WWI Western Front trenches.
25 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
Menin Gate
A vast memorial arch bearing 54,000 names of the missing, where the Last Post sounds every evening at eight.
25 km · about 30 min drive
museum
Louvre-Lens
A luminous glass-and-steel satellite of the Louvre rising from a former coal-mining town.
33 km · about 40 min drive
cafe
In de Vrede
The abbey café opposite Saint-Sixtus monastery in Westvleteren: effectively the only place on earth to reliably drink Westvleteren 12, long rated the world's best beer, at the source with a slab of abbey cheese.
36 km · about 40 min drive
landmark
Canadian National Vimy Memorial
Twin soaring pylons crown a WWI battlefield of preserved trenches and craters above the Douai plain.
39 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
Pairi Daiza
Belgium's most-visited attraction: a 75-hectare animal park built around a former Cistercian abbey in Hainaut, with full-scale Chinese, Indonesian and Middle Kingdom gardens housing giant pandas, gorillas and elephants.
57 km · about 65 min drive
beach
De Panne Beach
Belgium's widest sandy beach, famous for land-yachting and bordering the wild Westhoek dunes near the French border.
59 km · about 70 min drive
Driving roads near Marcq-en-Barœul
3 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
- 68 kmKoninklijke Baan Coast RoadThe N34 'Royal Road' hugs nearly the whole Belgian coast, sharing its corridor with the world's longest tram line and passing Belle Epoque De Haan, dunes and beach resorts.
Driving in France
- Drives on
- the right
- Petrol
- ~€1.85/litre
- Motorway tolls
- ~€10.00/100km
When to drive here
April to October
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