Porte de Tournai

Porte de Tournai is a locality in Lille, North, Hauts-de-France. Porte de Tournai is situated nearby to the quarter Quartier Saint-Sauveur, as well as near the suburb Lille-Centre.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Gare de Lille Flandres and Gare de Lille Europe.

Gare de Lille Flandres

Railway station

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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 Europe

Railway station

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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.

Belfry

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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Euralille and Fives.

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.

Fives

Suburb

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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.