Column of the Goddess
The Column of the Goddess is the popular name given by the citizens of Lille, France, to the Memorial of the Siege of 1792. The memorial stands in the center of the city's Grand' Place, and has been surrounded by a fountain since around 1990.Photo: Benh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Work of art
- Description: 1792 siege during the War of the First Coalition
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Rang de Beauregard and Palais Rihour.
Palais Rihour
Castle
Photo: Crack, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Palais Rihour is a castle, which is situated 180 metres southwest of Column of the Goddess.
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 190 metres northeast of Column of the Goddess.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lille-Centre and Euralille.
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.
Column of the Goddess
- Categories: victory column, building, tourism, historic site, and memorial
- Location: Lille, Arrondissement of Lille, North, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
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Latitude
50.6369° or 50° 38′ 13″ northLongitude
3.06344° or 3° 3′ 48″ eastInception
October 8th, 1845Height
13 metres (41 feet)Open location code
9F25J3P7+Q9OpenStreetMap ID
way 120444625OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q2984316
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Japanese—“Column of the Goddess” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “女神圆柱”
- Dutch: “Column of the Goddess”
- Esperanto: “Kolono de la Diino”
- Esperanto: “Memorejo pri la sieĝo de 1792”
- French: “Colonne de la Deesse”
- French: “colonne de la Déesse”
- French: “Colonne de la déesse”
- French: “Colonne de la Déesse”
- French: “Colonne De La Déesse”
- French: “Colonne de Lille”
- French: “Colonne obsidionale de Lille”
- French: “Déesse au boute-feu”
- French: “Monument commémoratif de la défense de Lille en 1792”
- French: “Monument commémoratif du siège de la ville de Lille en 1972”
- Japanese: “女神の柱”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Immeubles and Furet du Nord.
Nearby Places
Explore places such as Colonne de la Déesse and Parking Grand Place.
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