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city guide","hw_hub_city_hero_h1":"Things To Do In Lille","hw_hub_city_hero_intro":"Flemish in feel and French by border: gabled brick houses, beer served in taverns rather than bars, and Europe's largest flea market once a year.","hw_hub_city_hero_image":"1304145","hw_hub_city_hero_overlay":"light","hw_hub_city_hero_cta":"Where to stay | #areas\r\nWhat it costs | #money","hw_hub_city_live_stats":"1","hw_hub_city_stats":"80 min | From London by Eurostar\r\n2 million | Visitors to the Braderie over one weekend\r\n1667 | When Louis XIV took the city from the Spanish","hw_hub_city_intro_title":"A Flemish city that ended up in France","hw_hub_city_intro_body":"Lille was Flemish, then Spanish, then French from 1667, and the architecture never caught up with the politics. The Grand Place is ringed with Flemish Baroque gables, the Vieille Bourse is a seventeenth-century merchants' exchange built around a courtyard, and the whole old town is red and ochre brick rather than pale stone.\r\n\r\nIt drinks like Flanders too. The estaminet \u2014 a Flemish tavern serving beer, carbonnade and welsh \u2014 is the local institution, and the northern brewing tradition means proper beer lists in a country that mostly does not bother.\r\n\r\nThe Palais des Beaux-Arts is the second-largest fine art museum in France after the Louvre, which surprises people.\r\n\r\nOn the first weekend of September the whole city becomes the Braderie, Europe's largest flea market, with about two million visitors and mussel shells piled outside every restaurant.\r\n\r\nTwo days, and it is eighty minutes from London and an hour from Paris.","hw_hub_city_facts":"Getting in | Eurostar from London 80 min. TGV from Paris 1 hour, \u20ac20\u201360\r\nGetting around | Metro and tram about \u20ac1.80. The centre is walkable\r\nCurrency | Euro\r\nTwo stations | Lille-Europe for Eurostar, Lille-Flandres for domestic. Five minutes apart on foot\r\nBeer | Taken seriously. Estaminets are the Flemish taverns to look for\r\nTipping | Service is included. Rounding up is plenty","hw_hub_city_areas_title":"Where to stay","hw_hub_city_areas_intro":"A compact brick centre between two stations, walkable throughout.","hw_hub_city_areas_map":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_zoom":"13","hw_hub_city_hostels_pins":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_live":"","hw_hub_city_areas":"Vieux-Lille | First-timers | The old town: gabled brick streets, the best restaurants, boutiques and estaminets. Handsome and pricey. | 50.6420 | 3.0630 |  | \nGrand Place and centre | Transport and value | Around the main square: the Vieille Bourse, both stations, shops and most of the beds. | 50.6370 | 3.0630 |  | \nWazemmes | Markets and cheap eats | South-west: a diverse working quarter with the city's best market and the cheapest food. | 50.6270 | 3.0490 |  | \nVauban and the university | Students and nightlife | West near the citadel: student bars, a big park and cheaper rooms. | 50.6340 | 3.0440 |  | ","hw_hub_city_itin_title":"How long have you got?","hw_hub_city_itin_intro":"The routes we would walk, in the order we would walk them.","hw_hub_city_itin":"","hw_hub_city_do_title":"Things to do in Lille","hw_hub_city_do_body":"The Palais des Beaux-Arts, about \u20ac7, is the second-largest fine art museum in France and holds Rubens, Goya, Delacroix and a set of eighteenth-century relief maps of fortified cities that are worth the ticket alone.\r\n\r\nWalk Vieux-Lille. Flemish Baroque gables, brick and stone banding, and the Vieille Bourse \u2014 a merchants' exchange of 1653 built as twenty-four houses around a courtyard, now full of secondhand book stalls every afternoon. Free.\r\n\r\nThe Piscine at Roubaix, twenty minutes by metro and about \u20ac11, is an art deco swimming pool converted into a museum, with sculpture standing along the former bath. It is the best thing in the region.\r\n\r\nThe Citadelle, a Vauban star fort still in military use, sits in a large park that is free to walk.\r\n\r\nThen get into an estaminet and order a carbonnade, which is beef slow-cooked in brown beer.","hw_hub_city_do_points":"Palais des Beaux-Arts | About \u20ac7. Second-largest in France\r\nLa Piscine, Roubaix | About \u20ac11. A museum inside an art deco pool\r\nVieille Bourse | Free. Book stalls in a 1653 courtyard\r\nAn estaminet | Carbonnade, welsh, and beer in a Flemish tavern","hw_hub_city_do_tag":"things-to-do","hw_hub_city_do_more":"All things to do in Lille","hw_hub_city_free_title":"Free things to do in Lille","hw_hub_city_free_body":"Vieux-Lille and the Grand Place cost nothing and are the point of the city.\r\n\r\nThe Vieille Bourse courtyard is free and holds secondhand book and record stalls most afternoons, plus chess players.\r\n\r\nThe Citadelle park is free and large, with the Vauban fortifications and a zoo that charges very little.\r\n\r\nWazemmes market on Sunday mornings is the biggest in the city and free to walk \u2014 produce, clothes, North African food and a genuine cross-section of Lille.\r\n\r\nThe Braderie on the first weekend of September is free to attend and turns the entire city into a flea market for about thirty-six hours.","hw_hub_city_free_points":"Vieille Bourse | Free courtyard, book stalls, chess players\r\nWazemmes market | Sunday mornings, and the real Lille\r\nThe Citadelle park | Free, around a Vauban star fort\r\nThe Braderie | Free, and the largest flea market in Europe","hw_hub_city_free_tag":"free-things-to-do","hw_hub_city_free_more":"All free things to do in Lille","hw_hub_city_food_title":"Eating and drinking in Lille","hw_hub_city_food_body":"Northern food, which means Flemish rather than French. Carbonnade flamande \u2014 beef braised in brown beer with gingerbread and mustard \u2014 is the dish, at \u20ac15 to \u20ac20.\r\n\r\nWelsh is the other one: a slab of cheddar melted in beer over ham and bread, usually with chips, and it is as heavy as it sounds.\r\n\r\nMoules-frites is the Braderie ritual, when restaurants compete to build the tallest pile of shells outside their door over the weekend.\r\n\r\nMaroilles is the local cheese, washed-rind and genuinely pungent, and it turns up in tarts and sauces.\r\n\r\nBeer is the drink \u2014 Ch'ti and the northern breweries, plus Belgian imports from across the border \u2014 at \u20ac4 to \u20ac6.50. A lunch formule is \u20ac13 to \u20ac18.","hw_hub_city_food_points":"Carbonnade flamande | \u20ac15\u201320, beef braised in brown beer\r\nWelsh | Cheddar melted in beer over ham. Heavy\r\nMaroilles | The local cheese, and it announces itself\r\nBeer | \u20ac4\u20136.50, and taken seriously here","hw_hub_city_food_tag":"food","hw_hub_city_food_more":"All food guides for Lille","hw_hub_city_nightlife_title":"Going out in Lille","hw_hub_city_nightlife_body":"Student-heavy and beer-led. The Rue de Gand and Rue Royale in Vieux-Lille have the bars and the estaminets, and Rue Mass\u00e9na near the university is the cheap student strip.\r\n\r\nBeer is the point: proper Flemish and Belgian lists at \u20ac4 to \u20ac6.50, which is unusual in France and worth taking advantage of.\r\n\r\nCocktails are \u20ac8 to \u20ac12, and Vieux-Lille costs a euro or two more than Wazemmes or Vauban.\r\n\r\nTerm time from September to June is when the city is at full strength \u2014 there are around a hundred thousand students here.\r\n\r\nThe metro runs to about half past midnight, later at weekends.","hw_hub_city_nightlife_points":"Rue de Gand | Bars and estaminets in the old town\r\nRue Mass\u00e9na | The cheap student strip\r\nBeer lists | Flemish and Belgian, \u20ac4\u20136.50\r\nTerm time | September to June, with 100,000 students","hw_hub_city_nightlife_tag":"nightlife","hw_hub_city_nightlife_more":"All nightlife guides for Lille","hw_hub_city_transport_title":"Getting around Lille","hw_hub_city_transport_body":"Metro, tram and bus run on one ticket at about \u20ac1.80, with day tickets. The metro is fully automated and was among the first driverless systems anywhere.\r\n\r\nThe centre is walkable and the two stations are five minutes apart \u2014 Lille-Europe for Eurostar and TGV, Lille-Flandres for domestic and regional trains. Check which one your ticket says.\r\n\r\nEurostar reaches London in eighty minutes, Brussels is thirty-five minutes by train, and Paris an hour at \u20ac20 to \u20ac60.\r\n\r\nThat position makes Lille unusually good as a stop between three countries rather than a destination at the end of a line.\r\n\r\nRoubaix and Tourcoing are on the metro, which is how you reach La Piscine.","hw_hub_city_transport_points":"Two stations | Lille-Europe and Lille-Flandres, five minutes apart\r\nLondon | Eighty minutes by Eurostar\r\nBrussels | Thirty-five minutes\r\nParis | One hour, \u20ac20\u201360","hw_hub_city_transport_tag":"transport","hw_hub_city_transport_more":"All transport guides for Lille","hw_hub_city_money_title":"What Lille costs","hw_hub_city_money_body":"Good value for northern Europe. Dorms are \u20ac20 to \u20ac35, a lunch formule \u20ac13 to \u20ac18, and a beer \u20ac4 to \u20ac6.50.\r\n\r\nA day is \u20ac45 to \u20ac80.\r\n\r\nMuseums are cheap: the Palais des Beaux-Arts is about \u20ac7 and La Piscine about \u20ac11, both of which would cost double in Paris.\r\n\r\nThe Braderie weekend in early September is the exception \u2014 beds book out months ahead and prices rise sharply for two million visitors.\r\n\r\nBeing an hour from Paris and eighty minutes from London makes it a genuinely cheap add-on to a trip to either.","hw_hub_city_money_points":"Dorm bed | \u20ac20\u201335\r\nA day, all in | \u20ac45\u201380\r\nCheap museums | Beaux-Arts about \u20ac7, La Piscine about \u20ac11\r\nBraderie weekend | Book months ahead or avoid","hw_hub_city_money_tag":"budget","hw_hub_city_money_more":"All budget guides for Lille","hw_hub_city_safety_title":"Staying safe in Lille","hw_hub_city_safety_body":"Lille is a safe city and the crime affecting visitors is petty theft.\r\n\r\nPickpocketing happens around both stations, on the metro and in the Wazemmes market crowds.\r\n\r\nThe area around Lille-Flandres and parts of Moulins are scruffier at night without being dangerous.\r\n\r\nThe Braderie is the one genuine crowd event: two million people over a weekend, streets closed, and dense enough that bags should be worn in front and groups should agree a meeting point rather than relying on phone signal, which struggles.\r\n\r\nWelsh and carbonnade are heavy, and northern beers run stronger than they taste \u2014 Belgian imports across the border are frequently 8 or 9 per cent. Emergency number is 112.","hw_hub_city_safety_points":"Braderie crowds | Two million people. Agree a meeting point\r\nPickpockets | Both stations, the metro, Wazemmes market\r\nStrong beer | Belgian imports are often 8\u20139%\r\nEmergency | 112","hw_hub_city_safety_tag":"safety","hw_hub_city_safety_more":"All safety guides for Lille","hw_hub_city_trips_title":"Day trips from Lille","hw_hub_city_trips_intro":"Two countries and a mining basin, all within ninety minutes.","hw_hub_city_trips":"Brussels | 35 minutes | Train, \u20ac20\u201340 | A different country for the afternoon: the Grand Place, art nouveau and better chips. |  | 1304296\nArras | 40 minutes | Train, about \u20ac12 | Two Flemish Baroque squares, tunnels under the city used in the First World War, and the Vimy Ridge memorial nearby. |  | 1304297\nGhent or Bruges | 1.5 hours | Train, \u20ac20\u201335 | Medieval Flanders proper, and closer from here than from most of France. |  | 1304298","hw_hub_city_trips_tag":"day-trips","hw_hub_city_trips_more":"All day trips from Lille","hw_hub_city_season_title":"When to go","hw_hub_city_season_intro":"May, June and September. Early September is the Braderie, which is either the reason to come or the reason not to.","hw_hub_city_season_note":"Average highs. Lille is the wettest and greyest of the major French cities, which is part of why so much of its life happens indoors in taverns.","hw_hub_city_season_rows":"January | 6 | 2 | Cold, grey and wet. Cheapest, and estaminet weather\r\nFebruary | 7 | 2 | Still grey. Students in and bars busy\r\nMarch | 10 | 3 | Improving slowly\r\nApril | 14 | 4 | Showery and lengthening\r\nMay | 18 | 5 | Excellent. Terraces on the Grand Place\r\nJune | 21 | 5 | The best month. Long evenings and everything open\r\nJuly | 23 | 4 | Warm. Students gone and some places closed\r\nAugust | 23 | 3 | Quietest month, with many independents shut\r\nSeptember | 20 | 5 | Superb, and the Braderie fills the first weekend\r\nOctober | 15 | 4 | Autumn and good value. Term back in full\r\nNovember | 10 | 3 | Grey and wet. Christmas market opens at the end\r\nDecember | 7 | 4 | Christmas market on Place Rihour and a lit Grand Place","hw_hub_city_events_title":"What is on while you are there","hw_hub_city_events_intro":"Europe's largest flea market takes over the whole city in early September.","hw_hub_city_events_source":"api","hw_hub_city_events_count":"8","hw_hub_city_events_cache":"24","hw_hub_city_events_cta_label":"All events in Lille","hw_hub_city_events_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/events\/europe\/france\/lille\/","hw_hub_city_events":"Braderie de Lille | First weekend of September | Citywide | Europe's largest flea market: about two million visitors over a weekend, streets closed, moules-frites everywhere and competing piles of mussel shells outside restaurants. Free to attend, and every bed books out months ahead. |  | \nChristmas market | Late November to December | Place Rihour | Chalets and a big wheel, with the Grand Place lit behind them. |  | \nWazemmes market | Sunday mornings | Wazemmes | The largest market in the city, and the best cross-section of who actually lives here. |  | \nLille3000 | Periodic, several months | Citywide | A recurring cultural season with installations and exhibitions across the city. |  | \nF\u00eate de la Musique | 21 June | Citywide | Free live music across the streets and squares. |  | ","hw_hub_city_budget_title":"What your trip will cost","hw_hub_city_budget_intro":"Pick how you travel. Per person per night, in euros.","hw_hub_city_budget_note":"Braderie weekend runs well above these. The doing line is low because the museums here are unusually cheap.","hw_hub_city_budget_rows":"Shoestring | 20 | 14 | 4 | 3\r\nMiddle of the road | 32 | 28 | 5 | 14\r\nComfortable | 58 | 48 | 8 | 30","hw_hub_city_budget_currency":"\u20ac","hw_hub_city_hostels_title":"Where to stay in Lille","hw_hub_city_hostels_intro":"A modest scene near the centre and the stations, cheap except in Braderie week. Live from Hostelworld.","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_label":"All hostels in Lille","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/france\/lille\/","hw_hub_city_hostels_source":"api","hw_hub_city_hostels_count":"12","hw_hub_city_hostels_cache":"12","hw_hub_city_picks":"Best for solo travellers |  |  | \nBest for a party |  |  | \nQuietest |  |  | ","hw_hub_city_hostels":"","hw_hub_city_faq_title":"Lille travel questions","hw_hub_city_faq_note":"The ones we get asked most.","hw_hub_city_faqs":"What is the Braderie? | Europe's largest flea market, on the first weekend of September. About two million people, the whole city centre closed to traffic, and a tradition of restaurants competing to build the tallest pile of mussel shells outside their doors. It is free, it is extraordinary, and every bed in the city books out months ahead.\r\nIs Lille worth a stop? | Yes, particularly given where it is \u2014 eighty minutes from London, an hour from Paris, thirty-five minutes from Brussels. Two days covers it, and it costs noticeably less than any of those three.\r\nWhy does it look Flemish? | Because it was. Lille was Flemish, then Spanish, and only became French in 1667. The gabled brick architecture, the beer culture and the food all predate the border moving.\r\nWhat is an estaminet? | A Flemish tavern \u2014 wood, brick, long beer lists and heavy northern food. Order a carbonnade flamande, beef braised in brown beer, or a welsh, which is cheddar melted in beer over ham and bread. Both are enormous.\r\nWhich station do I arrive at? | Lille-Europe for Eurostar and TGV, Lille-Flandres for domestic and regional services. They are five minutes apart on foot, so a mistake costs you nothing but confusion.\r\nIs the Palais des Beaux-Arts worth it? | At about \u20ac7, yes. It is the second-largest fine art museum in France after the Louvre, and the eighteenth-century relief models of fortified cities in the basement are worth the ticket by themselves.\r\nWhat is La Piscine? | An art deco swimming pool in Roubaix, twenty minutes away on the metro, converted into a museum with sculpture standing along the former bath. About \u20ac11, and the best single thing in the region.","hw_hub_city_cta_title":"Say yes to hostels, meet the world","hw_hub_city_cta_body":"Compare Lille hostels \u2014 live prices, real reviews and free cancellation on most bookings. 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