• Diana OFrance/BelgiumTraveler
    Partial skyline of the Grande Place.
    Partial skyline of the Grande Place.More Grande Place.Moooooore.Old Lille.The Citadel is still actively used by the military for ???. We couldn't get much closer in.The Citadel had a lovely moat with lots of wildlife.An older gate of the Citadel.Beef stew made with beer and gingerbread. The Belgian influence is strong here.Rodin.Spring (left), Autumn (right).Inside the art museum.Vanity.Judith after cutting off Holofernes' head.Art from the 1400s.An old book written by hand on parchment.The same, but a Bible.Really worth the zoom on this one.Spectacles from the 1300s, with wooden carrying cases.A 300,000 year old tool found in the area.Large maps like this were used to plan battles.This gate separated the city from a leper colony back in the day.A (closed) bell tower.

    Lille

    Jul 13–16 in France ☁️ 29 °C

    I was a little fascinated by Lille, because it's a city of over a million people that I didn't know existed until I followed a random French powerlifter on Instagram several years back. It was easily the most livable of the cities we've been to so far, and we enjoyed their art museum, their citadel, and walking around taking in their Flemish-inspired architecture.Read more