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Mouvaux
Mouvaux (French pronunciation: [muvo]; Dutch: Mouvouw) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It is part of the Métropole Européenne de Lille.
1. Population
1. Heraldry
1. Twin towns – sister cities
Mouvaux is twinned with:
Buckingham, England, United Kingdom Halle, Belgium Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany
1. See also
Communes of the Nord department
1. References
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Palais Vaissier
The Palais Vaissier (also called the Château Vassier or Palais du Congo) was a large Orientalist mansion in Tourcoing, Nord, (France), which served as the distinctive home of industrialist Victor Vaissier. It was designed by French architect Édouard Dupire-Rozan and built in 1891–92, but was demolished in 1929. Two of its outbuildings, the residences of its concierge and the gardener, have been preserved, however, and can be viewed today from the street.
1.3 km
Verlaine Message Museum
The Verlaine Message Museum or Museum of 5 June 1944 is a historical museum founded in 1991 in Tourcoing, France, near Lille. It is named after the message sent by the BBC's Radio Londres at 9:15 pm on June 5, 1944 announcing the imminent invasion of Normandy. The museum is housed in the concrete bunker where the German Wehrmacht intercepted the message.
1.8 km
Roubaix station
Roubaix station (French: Gare de Roubaix) is a railway station serving the town Roubaix, Nord department, northern France.
2.2 km
ENSAIT
The École nationale supérieure des arts et industries textiles (ENSAIT) is a French Engineering grand établissement (grande école) and a member of UP-TEX research cluster (Union Pôle Textile).
ENSAIT is a higher education and research institute, gathering all the disciplines related to textiles. ENSAIT chairs include four departments related to education and research.