Porte de Roubaix
Porte de Roubaix is a city gate in Lille, North, Hauts-de-France. Porte de Roubaix is situated nearby to Maison des Vieux Hommes, as well as near the historic site Vestiges de l’ancien tramway de Lille.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Maison des Vieux Hommes and Gare de Lille Europe.
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. Gare de Lille Europe is situated 350 metres east of Porte de Roubaix.
Gare de Lille Flandres
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Lille-Flandres station is the main railway station of Lille, capital of French Flanders. It is a terminus for SNCF Intercity and regional trains. It opened in 1842 as the Gare de Lille, but was renamed in 1993 when Lille Europe station opened. Gare de Lille Flandres is situated 330 metres south of Porte de Roubaix.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Euralille and Porte de Tournai.
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.
Vieux-Lille
Suburb
Vieux-Lille is a district in the north of Lille. 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.
Porte de Roubaix
- Type: City gate
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Lille, Arrondissement of Lille, North, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
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Latitude
50.63935° or 50° 38′ 22″ northLongitude
3.07079° or 3° 4′ 15″ eastInception
1625Open location code
9F25J3QC+P8OpenStreetMap ID
node 7795367269OpenStreetMap feature
historic=city_gate
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