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About Lille

About Lille
Lille (Dutch: Rijsel) is a medium-sized city in the Nord-Pas de Calais region of northern France with a very large student population. This city has a strong industrial background, but, after some difficult years, it is now known throughout France for its handsome city centre and... [Read more]

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Explore the Christmas markets of Europe

Explore the Christmas markets of Europe
Christmas presents don’t buy themselves – but buying them can be made much more enjoyable with a trip to one of the famous Christmas markets of Europe. In Bruges the Christmas market is something of an institution – Bruges is renowned as a fairytale town and drinking mulled... [Read more]

Bloomsbury Group Exhibition

Bloomsbury Group Exhibition
The Bloomsbury Group is still incredibly relevant today. Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, is constantly talking about the need to use Keynesian economics in order to fight back against the recession and John Maynard Keynes is just one of many brilliant people who emerged from the... [Read more]

Peter Klasen at the Tri Postal gallery

Peter Klasen at the Tri Postal gallery
Peter Klasenv is a German artist who produces artwork through a number of means. He is a painter, photographer and sculptor, which means there is enormous breadth to his work. What’s more, with an exhibition of his work on showing his work from 1959-2009, the exhibition can show... [Read more]

Lille Christmas Market

Lille Christmas Market
Get into the festive spirit as the city takes on a festive atmosphere and transforms into a winter wonderland with Lille’s month-long Christmas Market. The Place Rihour is taken over by stalls selling arts and crafts. There’s entertainment for children, plus a Ferris... [Read more]

Paysages Electroniques

Paysages Electroniques
Take a little break in Lille for the 5th edition of “Paysages Electroniques” a great mix between sound and vision. Come and see DJs and video performers in some of Lille’s and Roubaix’s most amazing venues such as the fine art museum, an intimate projection room,... [Read more]

Massive Attack in Lille

Massive Attack in Lille
Massive Attack return with the Splitting the Atom EP, a taste of what is to come on their much-anticipated forthcoming album. The band’s current tour brings them to Lille’s Zenith Arena. Massive Attack emerged from Bristol in the late Eighties with a hypnotic sound influenced... [Read more]