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Anne-Sophie Hourdeaux
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Dec 23 2024 at 12:46 p.m.
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The Christmas holidays are an opportunity to meet up with family. We offer you some original outing ideas to do in Lille but also in its surroundings: fireworks, visits and even sports!
Our ideas for outings in Lille for the Christmas holidays
- Go see the immersive Van Gogh exhibition at Euratechnologies.
- See the Luminiscence show at Lille Cathedral (until January 4, 2025).
- The Departmental Archives of the North offer you a workshop allowing you to retrace the history of a soldier or a resistance fighter from the First and Second World Wars. After a guided tour of the Graff and War exhibition, learn how to carry out research in archive documents to retrace a life journey based on a birth certificate, a soldier's registration card or a file application for a veteran's card. Thursday 26, Friday 27 and Monday 30 December from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. From 11 years old, presence of an adult required for minors. Free on reservation: 03 59 73 06 00.
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Immerse yourself in the heart of the Belle Époque to discover the daily life of young Charles de Gaulle! Games, reflection, challenges and good humor punctuate this fun visit through the rooms of the Birthplace of Gaulle on rue Princesse in Lille. From 7 years old. Duration 1 hour. Monday December 23 and 30; Thursday December 26 and January 2 at 3 p.m. price: €2 in addition to the entry fee (included in the entry ticket for free admission).
And a little further
Cateau-Cambresis
Discover the Matisse museum after its long period of closure for work.
Fireworks at 6 p.m. Monday, December 23 from the bell tower of St-Hilaire church.
Herlies
A festive Christmas on Tuesday December 24 and 31 at the Weppes swimming pool! Come and enjoy special entertainment for the whole family from 2 p.m.: Christmas music, wheel of luck with surprises to win, inflatable structure in the large pool for fun, swimming until 5:45 p.m.
Marcq-en-Baroeul and Roubaix
Take advantage of the installation of ice rinks at the goose farm and on the Grand'Place in Roubaix.
Steenwerck
The Museum of Rural Life offers a Christmas visit. The year is 1900, Cornil is 7 years old and is preparing to spend Christmas Eve with his family… What a beautiful and exciting day! Come follow him in his preparations around the objects in the museum and discover all the magic of Christmases of yesteryear. The visit will be followed by a Christmas snack. Reservation required: 03 28 50 33 80. Price: €9/child (3-16 years) and €11/adult. Schedule: from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday 23, Thursday 26, Friday 27 (full at 3 p.m., visit at 4 p.m.), Saturday 28, Sunday 29 and Monday December 30, 2024.
The Serge Charles ice rink, the only ice rink in the metropolitan area, is open during the Christmas holidays. Saturday December 21: Disney – Magic Land (all day). Tuesday December 24: Freestyle On Ice (1:30 p.m.-4 p.m.). It also offers its traditional big New Year's foam party on Saturday December 28 from 6 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Price: €12.
To close the year 2024, the miniature creations of A. Bricout and Mr. Thérèse Pinte moved to the Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions. A miniature world reminiscent of the villages of Provençal figurines. Free. Open Tuesday to Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at 96 rue François Mériaux in Wattrelos (closed on public holidays).
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