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90 photos from Lille
(Hauts-de-France, France)
2022-08-14
Lille (Dutch: Rijsel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France`s border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the Nord department, and the main city of the European Metropolis of Lille. The city of Lille proper has a population of 234,475 in 2019 within its small municipal territory of 35 km2, but together with its French suburbs and exurbs the Lille metropolitan area (French part only), which extends over 1,666 km2, has a population of 1,510,079, the fourth most populated in France after Paris, Lyon, and Marseille. A garrison town (as evidenced by its Citadel), Lille has had an eventful history from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution. Very often besieged during its history, it belonged successively to the Kingdom of France, the Burgundian State, the Holy Roman Empire of Germany and the Spanish Netherlands before being definitively attached to the France of Louis XIV following the War of Spanish Succession along with the entire territory making up the historic province of French Flanders. Lille was again under siege in 1792 during the Franco-Austrian War, and in 1914 and 1940. We visited Lille on our way to Paris in the summer of 2022.
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90 photos from Lille
(Hauts-de-France, France)
2022-08-14
Lille (Dutch: Rijsel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France`s border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the Nord department, and the main city of the European Metropolis of Lille. The city of Lille proper has a population of 234,475 in 2019 within its small municipal territory of 35 km2, but together with its French suburbs and exurbs the Lille metropolitan area (French part only), which extends over 1,666 km2, has a population of 1,510,079, the fourth most populated in France after Paris, Lyon, and Marseille. A garrison town (as evidenced by its Citadel), Lille has had an eventful history from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution. Very often besieged during its history, it belonged successively to the Kingdom of France, the Burgundian State, the Holy Roman Empire of Germany and the Spanish Netherlands before being definitively attached to the France of Louis XIV following the War of Spanish Succession along with the entire territory making up the historic province of French Flanders. Lille was again under siege in 1792 during the Franco-Austrian War, and in 1914 and 1940. We visited Lille on our way to Paris in the summer of 2022.
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90 photos from Lille
(Hauts-de-France, France)
2022-08-14
Lille (Dutch: Rijsel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France`s border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the Nord department, and the main city of the European Metropolis of Lille. The city of Lille proper has a population of 234,475 in 2019 within its small municipal territory of 35 km2, but together with its French suburbs and exurbs the Lille metropolitan area (French part only), which extends over 1,666 km2, has a population of 1,510,079, the fourth most populated in France after Paris, Lyon, and Marseille. A garrison town (as evidenced by its Citadel), Lille has had an eventful history from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution. Very often besieged during its history, it belonged successively to the Kingdom of France, the Burgundian State, the Holy Roman Empire of Germany and the Spanish Netherlands before being definitively attached to the France of Louis XIV following the War of Spanish Succession along with the entire territory making up the historic province of French Flanders. Lille was again under siege in 1792 during the Franco-Austrian War, and in 1914 and 1940. We visited Lille on our way to Paris in the summer of 2022.
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90 photos from Lille
(Hauts-de-France, France)
2022-08-14
Lille (Dutch: Rijsel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France`s border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the Nord department, and the main city of the European Metropolis of Lille. The city of Lille proper has a population of 234,475 in 2019 within its small municipal territory of 35 km2, but together with its French suburbs and exurbs the Lille metropolitan area (French part only), which extends over 1,666 km2, has a population of 1,510,079, the fourth most populated in France after Paris, Lyon, and Marseille. A garrison town (as evidenced by its Citadel), Lille has had an eventful history from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution. Very often besieged during its history, it belonged successively to the Kingdom of France, the Burgundian State, the Holy Roman Empire of Germany and the Spanish Netherlands before being definitively attached to the France of Louis XIV following the War of Spanish Succession along with the entire territory making up the historic province of French Flanders. Lille was again under siege in 1792 during the Franco-Austrian War, and in 1914 and 1940. We visited Lille on our way to Paris in the summer of 2022.
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90 photos from Lille
(Hauts-de-France, France)
2022-08-14
Lille (Dutch: Rijsel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France`s border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the Nord department, and the main city of the European Metropolis of Lille. The city of Lille proper has a population of 234,475 in 2019 within its small municipal territory of 35 km2, but together with its French suburbs and exurbs the Lille metropolitan area (French part only), which extends over 1,666 km2, has a population of 1,510,079, the fourth most populated in France after Paris, Lyon, and Marseille. A garrison town (as evidenced by its Citadel), Lille has had an eventful history from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution. Very often besieged during its history, it belonged successively to the Kingdom of France, the Burgundian State, the Holy Roman Empire of Germany and the Spanish Netherlands before being definitively attached to the France of Louis XIV following the War of Spanish Succession along with the entire territory making up the historic province of French Flanders. Lille was again under siege in 1792 during the Franco-Austrian War, and in 1914 and 1940. We visited Lille on our way to Paris in the summer of 2022.
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