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Vieux Lille
Lively old quarter of Flemish brick gables and grand squares, the cultural capital of the French north.
6 km · about 10 min drive
Hauts-de-France, France · Europe
Wattignies is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Ronchin, 6km from Vieux Lille.
Wattignies is a town located in Hauts-de-France, France. With a population of 14,766, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Wattignies 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 Wattignies to your route.
Wattignies (French pronunciation: [watiɲi]; Dutch: Wattenijs) is a commune in the Nord department of northern France. It lies in the south-western part of the Lille conurbation. It covers an area of 6.31 square kilometres (2.44 sq mi).
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Wattignies is located in Hauts-de-France, France, Europe. The coordinates are 50.5864 latitude, 3.0439 longitude.
Wattignies has a population of approximately 14,766 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.
6 km · about 10 min drive
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A luminous glass-and-steel satellite of the Louvre rising from a former coal-mining town.
24 km · about 30 min drive
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Twin soaring pylons crown a WWI battlefield of preserved trenches and craters above the Douai plain.
30 km · about 35 min drive
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Set in Ypres' rebuilt Cloth Hall, this museum tells the harrowing story of the WWI Western Front trenches.
31 km · about 35 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.
31 km · about 35 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.
41 km · about 45 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.
60 km · about 70 min drive
April to October
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