Camping Sandaya Le Soleil Vivarais: Lille's Local Attractions

Discover Lille on a beer-themed paper chase and walk around its streets looking for clues! FIND OUT ABOUT ALL OF LILLE'S SECRETS ON A FUN BEER TASTING DETECTIVE GAME! The aim of the game is to find the stein of Gambrinus, prince of beer, which was lost somewhere in the city... Start by picking up your road book, then you'll be ready to start searching for the missing chalice! To complete your quest, you will follow a trail around Lille's streets and squares looking for clues to help you solve the enigma. Several key clues can be found in certain of the city's bars. You'll have the pleasure of tasting 4 exceptional beers in 4 of Lille's best bars, chosen specially for the game. Your search will progress thanks to the clues hidden along the way. You'll need to look in all directions, including in natural spots and even in the taste of your beer! Choose this fun, pleasant and delicious tour of Lille! Good luck! Alcohol abuse is bad for your health. Please consume in moderation 

Discover the city of Lille on this bus tour! Relax and explore every single part of the city! EXPLORE THE STREETS OF LILLE BY BUS AND ADMIRE THE CITY'S MONUMENTS! Embark on a 50-minute bus tour of Lille aboard a comfortably open-top bus (in summer)! Audio guides provide informative commentary throughout the tour, in the language of your choice (French, English, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Japanese and Russian). As you travel, you can enjoy a scenic view of the city's key monuments, from the ancient to the modern neighbourhoods. The itinerary includes the following sites: * Palais Rihour (tourist information office, first and last stop) * Grand Place * Rue Faidherbe * Quartier des Gares * Euralille * Quartier Royal * Lille Old Town * Îlot Comtesse * Porte de Paris * The City Hall belfry * The Saint-Sauveur neighbourhood * Place de la République and the surrounding district (Palais des Beaux-Arts, Préfecture...) Choose the Lille bus tour to discover the city's major landmarks and points of interest, supplemented with audio-guide commentary!

The best of Lille thanks to the City Pass! Enjoy free access to many museums and attractions as well as unlimited transport! Thanks to the Lille Pass, experience all the ferment of the city in one single offer! Find out about all of Lille's secrets! Enjoy free access to 25 museums, sites, and tourist services in the Lille metropolitan area. With the 72-hour pass, you will also have free access to 14 museums, sites and tourist services in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region and a free access to the TER regional train network (operated by the SNCF) for 24 consecutive hours. You will have unlimited access to metropolitan Transpole public transport (underground, buses, tram) during the selected period. You will also get preferential prices on shopping and dining venues (you will receive the list in the Lille and Roubaix tourist information offices). Choose the Lille pass for the duration of your choice and make the most of your stay in Lille!

Discover Lille's old town on a 2-hour walking tour. Walk along the streets and squares, and marvel at the beauty of its architecture! SEE THE HIGHLIGHTS OF LILLE'S OLD TOWN ON THIS GUIDED TOUR! With your guide, discover the old neighbourhoods of the city and feel the charm of this bustling and welcoming city. Lille still features buildings from different influences: the Palais Rihour, the Vieille Bourse, the Rang du Beauregard and the Cathedral. After this tour revealing the city's different architectural styles, your tour will end with a visit to the Hospice Comtesse, an iconic monument combining many accounts of the city's history such as earthenware, sculptures, paintings and furniture. Choose this guided tour of Lille's old town and discover the city's highlights!

Discover one of Lille's highlights on a walking audioguided tour by the belfry of Lille's City Hall, and climb on top of its 104-metre-high tower to enjoy a breathtaking view of Lille! Visit the belfry of Lille's City Hall on this audioguided tour! This visit will grant you the opportunity to find out about this 104-metre-high UNESCO World Heritage Site towering over Lille, whose construction ended in 1931. You will be equipped with a pair of binoculars and an audioguide, and enjoy an ideal viewpoint to look at the city and its surroundings. Choose this guided tour to discover the belfry of Lille's City Hall and tower over the city to enjoy a breathtaking scenic view!

A luxury, modern hotel next to the Grand-Place in Mouscron, the Hôtel Alizé offers 4 types of room, all air-conditioned, with beds 210cm long: standard, executive, jacuzzi suite and honeymoon suite. As well as boasting the “Bikes Welcome” label, this gorgeous hotel also offers plenty of other services: sauna, gym, flat screen TV, tea and coffee making facilities, free WiFi, bathroom with bath or shower, hairdryer. Its location right in the centre of town means that there are plenty of restaurants, bars and shops to explore, plus a Christmas market in December, just 25 metres from the hotel. 100% no-smoking hotel.

A wonderful place to stay thanks to its numerous facilities. Its rooms are equipped with all mod cons and will delight you with their pleasant and invigorating setting.

Built in the 1950s to sort the city's mail, then converted into a cultural venue for Lille 2004, European Capital of Culture, the Tripostal has become a major space for contemporary creation. While not an art centre or museum, it is a place for art and life, located in the heart of the city, between Lille Flandres and Lille Europe stations. It has three floors, each measuring 2,000 m², giving it excellent scenographic flexibility. It's also a place for performance and celebration, with a children's area and catering facilities.

As a showcase for the history of the Institut Pasteur de Lille and a focus for current scientific research, this museum was born out of a desire to celebrate the scientific work of our researchers. It gives everyone access to the collections of the Institut Pasteur de Lille and thus to the history of those who built it. The Institut Pasteur de Lille museum pays tribute to its founding fathers, talented researchers and humanists whose work has saved millions of lives around the world: Louis Pasteur, Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin. The aesthetics of this contemporary exhibition come alive throughout: the museum becomes a place of discovery, astonishment, learning and wonder. Combining art and science, history and modernity, new technologies and poetry, the Institut Pasteur museum in Lille is an undeniable source of scientific mediation, particularly for young people, teenagers and children. Stimulating interest in science, research and health is a major concern of the Institut Pasteur de Lille.

A symbol of the freedom of the cities of the North, the building is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Lille's belfry is 104 metres high and offers a breathtaking view of the whole city. The base of the belfry features magnificent sculptures of Lyderic and Phinaert, the two legendary figures who played a pivotal role in the town's foundation. Prices: €7.5 Free for under 6s

Opened in March 2009 to coincide with Europe XXL, the Gare Saint Sauveur, formerly a goods station, has been renovated by the City of Lille to offer cultural events and leisure facilities throughout the year, as well as a bar-restaurant and an urban farm with seasonal activities.

With its late 19th century architecture, the Natural History Museum has become a must-see. It offers permanent and temporary exhibitions throughout the year, as well as workshops and evening events for young and old alike, promoting a rich and varied cultural heritage. Skeletons of sperm whales, whales and rorqual whales float above visitors, suspended from the magnificent beams of the main gallery, while on the floor, animal scenes illustrate the richness and great diversity of species.

[Since 2 April 2024, the Museum has closed its doors to the public in order to accommodate a vast renovation and expansion project]. Behind this facade with its many architectural influences, discover works of taxidermy and other relics of the evolution of the Earth and its inhabitants. Among them are life-size reproductions of dinosaurs, impressive skeletons of land and sea animals, and a rich collection of insects, birds and mammals, including a polar bear, considered one of the museum's centrepieces and whose presence evokes current environmental issues. The geology area will take you back 600 million years to the present day, revealing what the North of France was like then and tracing its evolution to the present day. In addition to this vast permanent collection, the Natural History Museum offers temporary exhibitions, workshops and themed evenings for young and old all year round.

During the digging of the area that was to become the future "Lac du Château", archaeological teams uncovered the remains of a Gallo-Roman structure in 1972, and more precisely the remains of a "villa", that is to say a dwelling place but also and above all, the administrative center of an agricultural estate. The vestiges are rather poorly preserved, but it was nevertheless possible to reconstruct what looks like elements from the hypocaust, the floor heating system. At the south of the villa, a small necropolis was found and excavated which was dated from the 2nd century AD.

It was here that around 1200, Gilbert de Bourghelles, the « châtelain » of Lille, built his fortified house. As a « châtelain », he was a territorial feudal agent, committed by the count to assert his prerogatives and more precisely the right of ban. Gilbert de Bourghelles was a local knight, who served the counts of Flanders and fought alongside Ferdinand of Portugal, during the Battle of Bouvines in 1214, against Philip Augustus, the King of France.Loyal and devoted counselor of the count of Flanders, the latter thanked him by dismembering his domain of Annappes to give him a part as a fief around 1200. Here, Gilbert de Bourghelles has undeniable assets. First of all, the marshes and the available water currents allowed him to build his defensive perimeter. The moat, as it is still visible today, surrounds the fortified house and gave a slight protection in case of attacks. This is also the case of the ditches that had been dug to drain the Annappes marshes that surrounded the mound. The path that bypasses the mound, and that you just took, follow the original layout of the old ditches.Far from being just a residence, the mound is also surrounded by its large agricultural estate. This is the farmyard, installed beyond the moat. Here, graze cattle and sheep needed for the manufacture of wool, the biggest part of Flanders’ economy. Therefore, we found in this farmyard the dwellings of the peasants, the stables, the sheepfold, etc. There is nothing left from the walls that previously made up the house, but we have an idea of what the Mound Quiquempois used to be thanks, to the archaeological researchs that were carried out from 1970.

Located in the heart of Old Lille, the museum is housed in the hospital founded in 1237 by Countess Jeanne de Flandre, which did not close until 1939. The current buildings date from the 15th, 17th and 18th centuries. They consist of a paneled barrel-vaulted patients' ward, a chapel decorated with the coats of arms of the hospital's main benefactors, and the Augustinian sisters' community buildings arranged around two courtyards and a medicinal garden. Since 1962, they have been used as a showcase for paintings, tapestries, carved wood, furniture and earthenware from the region, evoking the interior of a 17th-century Flemish religious house.

In the heart of Lille, the Palais des Beaux-Arts stands out behind a magnificent fountain with water jets from which springs Eugène Dodeigne's famous "Group of Three" sculpture. It houses the richest collection in France after that of the Louvre, in a sumptuous setting of characteristic 19th-century architecture. It includes French and European paintings (Rubens, Van Dyck, Goya, Delacroix, etc.), sculptures (Rodin, Claudel, Carpeaux, etc.), ceramics, and other media such as a large cabinet of drawings (including 40 sheets by Raphael) and relief plans of towns in the region, fortified by Vauban in the 17th century. In 1997, renovation work was carried out in the basement, creating a room for temporary international exhibitions, an auditorium, a library and educational workshops.

Traditional brasserie. For more information, visit Website: www.facebook.com/uncoindeparadis.24/?locale=fr_fr Contact: 03 20 88 16 15

Au 30 Meal offers quality eat-in or takeaway food in the centre of Lille. For more information, visit Website : au-30-meal.com/ Facebook : www.facebook.com/au30meal/

A local café and a place to live. For more information, visit Website : www.cafeaugustin.com/ Instagram : www.instagram.com/cafe_augustin/?hl=fr Facebook : www.facebook.com/cafeaugustin/ Contact : 03 74 46 94 20

Elegant glass-walled brasserie with garden terrace, serving French, Italian and Thai-influenced dishes. More info at Website: by-s-la-madeleine.fr/fr Contact: 03 20 06 25 25

Looking for the ultimate urban escape this summer in Lille? BB · La Guinguette du Cours St-So is the go-to spot! Nestled in the heart of the former Saint-Sauveur railyard, this open-air hangout is a vibrant mix of chill vibes, creative energy, and festive fun. A Pop-Up Summer Village This is more than just a guinguette – it's a full-on outdoor living space with: • A retro bus-bar serving fresh and funky drinks• Bob’s friterie with delicious fries and snacks• 10 self-service BBQs – bring your food and grill with friends• Free access to pétanque & mölkky (Nordic skittles) courts• A lively cultural agenda: DJ sets, live concerts, karaoke, game tournaments & more Weekly Events & Feel-Good Vibes Whether you’re into music, games or chilling with a drink in hand, BB has you covered: • Live gigs by local bands• DJ sets to keep the dancefloor alive• Creative workshops & kids’ storytimes for family fun BB is where locals and visitors meet, mingle and make memories under the summer sky.

Panoramic restaurant, bar and rooftop. More info at Website: www.nu-lille.fr/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/nulille/?hl=fr Facebook: www.facebook.com/nurooftop/?locale=fr_fr Contact: 03 20 78 37 03

French dishes and northern specialities for this brasserie with red banquettes and wooded Art Nouveau decor. For more information, visit Website: restaurant-le-meunier.fr Contact: 03 28 04 04 90

Discover the cuisine of the North through minimalist and reinvented dishes, accompanied by craft beers.

Traditional and homemade French specialities prepared by attentive chefs. More info at Website: lebavarois.eatbu.com/ Contact: 03 20 05 17 79

141 beers to date! Every day of the week, the beer palace invites you to enjoy a good meal or share a charcuterie board on your own, with family or friends. For more information, visit Website: www.lepalaisdelabiere-lille.fr/ Contact: 03 20 06 38 94

Benefit from great Appart'hotels where you can stay in total freedom for a night or a weekend. For more information, visit Website : www.au-30.com/ Facebook : www.facebook.com/au30lille/ Contact : 06 51 70 20 52

Not far from a train station, the RBX - Roubaix Centre hotel is an excellent choice for a stay in Roubaix. For further information Contact: 03 20 70 19 20

Just 10 minutes from Stade Pierre Mauroy, come and "mingle" in a family setting in the colours of rugby. For more information, visit Website : www.hotel-agena.com/ Contact : 03 20 60 13 14

This gîte is located in the former home of the farm’s cowman. You will be able to recharge your batteries in this green setting surrounded by animals (donkeys, chickens, sheep, fallow deer, goats...). Numerous hiking and cycling trails enable you to discover this region situated between two natural parks (Parc Naturel des Plaines de l'Escaut and Parc Naturel du Pays des Collines). You can also discover the architectural and cultural heritage of the cities of Tournai, Lille and Bruges. Activities such as pétanque and tennis are possible on site. Horses are welcome. Ground floor: sitting room/dining room/kitchen (4 hot plates, electric oven, microwave, dishwasher, fridge, freezer), separate toilet, laundry room. First floor: 2 bedrooms (1 double bed), hallway (sofa bed), separate toilet, bathroom (shower, washbasin). Non-smoking gîte. You can watch the donkeys being milked.

Situated in a green environment at only a few kilometres from Lille and Tournai, La Roseraie features two guestrooms (5 “épis”) in an authentic setting. The century-old mansion is surrounded by a landscape garden designed by the owner herself. You can go for beautiful walks there, along winding paths amid roses, maple trees, boxwood hedges and age-old trees. Or you can swim and relax in the outdoor pool, which is surrounded by nice shady spots. In the meadow bordered by indigenous deciduous trees, the children can meet the animals: a donkey, a pony, sheep, geese… The two spacious rooms have been entirely renovated and carefully decorated. You will enjoy the smell of fresh flowers as well as the crisp new sheets on the beds and the bath and shower cream based on donkey milk in your private bathroom. The rooms also feature a private toilet, a TV, Wi-Fi connection and a safe. The copious breakfast is served in the dining room or in the garden. Also at your disposal: a relaxation area including a sauna, a reading area, a refrigerator and a hi-fi system with iPod adapter. Your host, Carine, will also gladly introduce you to her passion, floral art, during a workshop (upon request).

Situated in a green environment at only a few kilometres from Lille and Tournai, La Roseraie features two guestrooms (5 “épis”) in an authentic setting. The century-old mansion is surrounded by a landscape garden designed by the owner herself. You can go for beautiful walks there, along winding paths amid roses, maple trees, boxwood hedges and age-old trees. Or you can swim and relax in the outdoor pool, which is surrounded by nice shady spots. In the meadow bordered by indigenous deciduous trees, the children can meet the animals: a donkey, a pony, sheep, geese… The two spacious rooms have been entirely renovated and carefully decorated. You will enjoy the smell of fresh flowers as well as the crisp new sheets on the beds and the bath and shower cream based on donkey milk in your private bathroom. The rooms also feature a private toilet, a TV, Wi-Fi connection and a safe. The copious breakfast is served in the dining room or in the garden. Also at your disposal: a relaxation area including a sauna, a reading area, a refrigerator and a hi-fi system with iPod adapter. Your host, Carine, will also gladly introduce you to her passion, floral art, during a workshop (upon request).