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Vieux Lille
Lively old quarter of Flemish brick gables and grand squares, the cultural capital of the French north.
10 km · about 20 min drive
Hauts-de-France, France · Europe
Roubaix is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Herseaux, 10km from Vieux Lille.
Roubaix is a town located in Hauts-de-France, France. With a population of 99,507, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Roubaix sits in France, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Paris time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Roubaix to your route.
Roubaix (US: roo-BAY, French: [ʁubɛ] or [ʁube] ; Dutch: Robaais; West Flemish: Roboais; Picard: Roubés) is a city in northern France, located in the Lille metropolitan area on the Belgian border. It is a historically mono-industrial commune in the Nord department, which grew rapidly in the 19th century from itsRead more
textile industries, with most of the same characteristic features as those of English and American boom towns. This former new town has faced many challenges linked to deindustrialisation such as urban decay, with their related economic and social implications, since its major industries fell into decline by the middle of the 1970s. Located to the northeast of Lille, adjacent to Tourcoing, Roubaix is the chef-lieu of two cantons and the fourth largest city in the French region of Hauts-de-France ranked by population with about 98,000 inhabitants.
Together with the nearby cities of Lille, Tourcoing, Villeneuve-d'Ascq and eighty-six other communes, Roubaix gives structure to a four-centred metropolitan area inhabited by more than 1.1 million people: the European Metropolis of Lille. To a greater extent, Roubaix is in the center of a vast conurbation formed with the Belgian cities of Mouscron, Kortrijk and Tournai, which gave birth to the first European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation in January 2008, Lille–Kortrijk–Tournai with an aggregate population of over 2 million inhabitants.
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Roubaix is located in Hauts-de-France, France, Europe. The coordinates are 50.6942 latitude, 3.1746 longitude.
Roubaix has a population of approximately 99,507 people, making it a town in France.
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Lively old quarter of Flemish brick gables and grand squares, the cultural capital of the French north.
10 km · about 20 min drive
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Set in Ypres' rebuilt Cloth Hall, this museum tells the harrowing story of the WWI Western Front trenches.
27 km · about 30 min drive
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A vast memorial arch bearing 54,000 names of the missing, where the Last Post sounds every evening at eight.
27 km · about 30 min drive
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A luminous glass-and-steel satellite of the Louvre rising from a former coal-mining town.
39 km · about 45 min drive
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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.
39 km · about 45 min drive
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Twin soaring pylons crown a WWI battlefield of preserved trenches and craters above the Douai plain.
45 km · about 50 min drive
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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.
52 km · about 60 min drive
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Vibrant medieval Flemish city with stunning canal-side architecture, the Gravensteen castle, and the famous Ghent Altarpiece.
55 km · about 65 min drive
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