Fives

Fives is a former commune in the Nord department in northern France. It has been part of Lille since 1858. It gave its name to an engineering group founded in the nineteenth century, the Compagnie de Fives-Lille.

Photo: PIERRE ANDRE LECLERCQ, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Type: Suburb
Description: human settlement
Also known as: “Faubourg de Fives” and “Fives, Nord”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fives and Église Notre-Dame de Fives.

Fives

Metro station

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Fives is a metro station.

Église Notre-Dame de Fives

Church

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Église Notre-Dame de Fives is a church.

Gare de Lille Europe

Railway station

Photo: JÄNNICK Jérémy, Public domain.

Lille–Europe station is a SNCF railway station in Lille, France, on the LGV Nord high-speed railway. The station is primarily used for international Eurostar and long-distance SNCF TGV services, although some high-speed regional trains also call at the station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Porte de Tournai and Euralille.

Porte de Tournai

Locality

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Porte de Tournai is a locality.

Euralille

Suburb

Euralille is an urban quarter in the centre of Lille, France. Conceived as a major European business district in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it is strategically located at the intersection of the high-speed railway lines linking Paris, Brussels, and London, and incorporates the Gare de Lille Europe and Gare de Lille Flandres railway stations.