Place du Général-de-Gaulle
The Place du Général-de-Gaulle is an urban public space situated in the commune of Lille, Hauts-de-France region. It is the town's historic main square.Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Square
- Description: square in Lille, France
- Also known as: “place du General-de-Gaulle” and “place du Général-de-Gaulle”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Column of the Goddess and Immeubles, 34-44-52 place du Général-de-Gaulle, Rue des Sept-Agaches, Rue du Petit-Paon, Rue de la Bourse.
Column of the Goddess
Work of art
Photo: Benh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Immeubles, 34-44-52 place du Général-de-Gaulle, Rue des Sept-Agaches, Rue du Petit-Paon, Rue de la Bourse
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
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.
Place du Général-de-Gaulle
- Categories: pedestrian zone and locality
- Location: Lille, Arrondissement of Lille, North, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
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Latitude
50.63689° or 50° 38′ 13″ northLongitude
3.06348° or 3° 3′ 49″ eastOpen location code
9F25J3P7+Q9OpenStreetMap ID
way 24018488OpenStreetMap feature
highway=pedestrianOpenStreetMap feature
place=squareWikidata ID
Q3390627
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to French—“Place du Général-de-Gaulle” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “戴高乐将军广场”
- Dutch: “place du Général-de-Gaulle”
- Dutch: “Place du Général-de-Gaulle”
- Esperanto: “Grand‘ Place”
- Esperanto: “Grand’ Place”
- Esperanto: “Placo de Generalo De Gaulle”
- French: “Grand Place de Lille”
- French: “Grand-Place de Lille”
- French: “Grand’Place de Lille”
- French: “Place du General-de-Gaulle”
- French: “place du Général-de-Gaulle”
- French: “Place du général-de-gaulle”
- French: “Place du Général-de-Gaulle”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Furet du Nord and Immeubles.
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