Wallace fountain

Wallace fountains are public drinking fountains named after, financed by and roughly designed by Sir Richard Wallace and sculpted by Charles-Auguste Lebourg.
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Gare de Lille Flandres and Hôtel Ramery.

Railway station
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Lille-Flandres station is the main railway station of , capital of French Flanders. It is a terminus for Intercity and regional trains. It opened in 1842 as the Gare de Lille, but was renamed in 1993 when Lille Europe station opened. is situated 360 metres east of Wallace fountain.

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Square
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The is an urban public space situated in the commune of , region. It is the town's historic main square. is situated 180 metres southwest of Wallace fountain.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Euralille and Porte de Tournai.

Suburb
is an urban quarter in the centre of , 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 , , and , and incorporates the Gare de Lille Europe and Gare de Lille Flandres railway stations.

Locality
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is a locality.

Suburb
is a district in the north of . It is the district with the most pre-19th-century buildings. It still boasts many cobbled streets and traces of the canals that crisscrossed the city in centuries gone by. It is home to 20,000 inhabitants.

Wallace fountain

Latitude
50.63759° or 50° 38′ 15″ north
Longitude
3.06586° or 3° 3′ 57″ east
Open location code
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Wiki­data ID
Q829304
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In Other Languages

From Belarusian to Vietnamese—“Wallace fountain” goes by many names.
  • Belarusian: “Фантанчык Уолеса”
  • Bulgarian: “Фонтани на Уолъс”
  • Bulgarian: “Фонтаните на Уолъс”
  • Catalan: “font Wallace”
  • Catalan: “Font Wallace”
  • Czech: “Wallaceova fontána”
  • Danish: “Wallace-vandpost”
  • Dutch: “Wallace fountain”
  • Dutch: “Wallace-fontein”
  • Esperanto: “Fontaines Wallace”
  • Esperanto: “Fontanoj Wallace”
  • French: “fontaine Wallace”
  • French: “Fontaine Wallace”
  • French: “Fontaines Wallace”
  • German: “Wallace-Brunnen”
  • Greek: “Κρήνη Ουάλας”
  • Hebrew: “מזרקות ואלאס”
  • Hebrew: “מזרקות וואלאס”
  • Italian: “Fontana Wallace”
  • Japanese: “ウォレス噴水”
  • Polish: “Fontanny Wallace’a”
  • Polish: “Fontanny Wallace”
  • Portuguese: “Fonte Wallace”
  • Russian: “Фонтанчик Уоллеса”
  • Russian: “Фонтанчики Уоллеса”
  • Russian: “Фонтаны Уоллеса”
  • Spanish: “Fuente Wallace”
  • Turkish: “Wallace çeşmesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Фонтанчики Воллеса”
  • Vietnamese: “Đài phun nước Wallace”
  • Vietnamese: “Fontaine Wallace”
  • Vietnamese: “Vòi phun nước Wallace”
  • Vietnamese: “Vòi phun Wallace”

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