Too many people think of Lille, France's fourth largest city, as a railway station on the Eurostar route to Paris. Stop off for a while though and you may find that art, culture, great food and a healthy dose of 'chic' aren't exclusively a Parisian thing.
Putting aside its cloth manufacturing heritage, Lille made its first major impact on the cultural map in 2004 when the city became the European capital of culture. This came with a raft of galleries the most impressive of which is probably the former art deco swimming pool, La Piscine. Five years later they went one better when Lille3000 was launched with a huge fireworks display and parade of robots through the town square. That doesn't mean to say that Lille is all modern art though; the Picasso ceramics are among the older exhibitions at La Piscine but Lille has plenty of old masters at the Palais des Bea
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