Parking Opéra

Parking Opéra is a parking area in Lille, North, Hauts-de-France. Parking Opéra is situated nearby to the park Square Carnot – Jardin des Arts, as well as near the university École internationl Tunon.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Wallace fountain and Gare de Lille Flandres.

Wallace fountain

Work of art

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Wallace fountains are public drinking fountains named after, financed by and roughly designed by Sir Richard Wallace and sculpted by Charles-Auguste Lebourg. Wallace fountain is situated 170 metres south of Parking Opéra.

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 450 metres southeast of Parking Opéra.

Lille Cathedral

Church

Photo: Christophe.Finot, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Lille Cathedral, the Basilica of Notre Dame de la Treille, is a Roman Catholic church and basilica in Lille, France, and the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Lille. Lille Cathedral is situated 260 metres northwest of Parking Opéra.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Euralille and Vieux-Lille.

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

Photo: B.navez, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.