Wattrelos (French pronunciation: [watʁəlo] ; archaic Dutch: Waterlo) is a commune in the Nord department in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France. It is located on the border with Belgium, northeast of the city of Lille. The fifth-largest component of the Métropole Européenne de Lille, Wattrelos borders the communes of Roubaix, Tourcoing and Leers in France and the communes of Mouscron and Estaimpuis in Belgium.
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The Hôtel de Ville is a municipal building in Wattrelos, Nord, in northern France, standing on Place Jean-Delvainquière.
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Eurometropolis Lille–Kortrijk–Tournai is a metropolitan area in Europe around the transborder agglomeration of the French city of Lille, and the Belgian cities Kortrijk and Tournai.
It covers the local regions Lille Métropole, south-eastern West Flanders and Wallonie Picarde, 147 municipalities in total. The 2008 population was 2,155,161.
It is one of the EU-designated cross-border regions under the auspices of European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation.
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The Canton of Roubaix-Est is a former French canton, located in the Nord department in the former region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais.
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The canton of Roubaix-2 is an administrative division of the Nord department, northern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Roubaix.
It consists of the following communes:
Leers
Roubaix
Wattrelos
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The Roubaix Velodrome is a velodrome in Roubaix, Nord, France. It was opened in 1936 and has hosted the finish of the one-day "monument classic" cycling race Paris–Roubaix since 1943, and the Paris–Roubaix Femmes since its inception in 2021.
The race moved to the current stadium in 1943, and there it has stayed with the exceptions of 1986, 1987 and 1988 when the finish was in the avenue des Nations-Unies, outside the offices of La Redoute, the mail-order company which sponsored the race.
The shower room inside the velodrome is distinctive for the open, three-sided, low-walled concrete stalls, each with a brass plaque to commemorate a winner. These include Peter Van Petegem, Eddy Merckx, Peter Sagan, Roger De Vlaeminck, Rik Van Looy and Fausto Coppi.
The velodrome is located in the Parc des Sports, on the eastern outskirts of Roubaix, less than two kilometres from the Belgian border. The grass field on the inside of the track is used as a venue for Roubaix' rugby team. In 2012, a new multi-purpose indoor velodrome with a 250 m track, the Stab Vélodrome de Roubaix, opened next to the Roubaix Velodrome.
History
The Hôtel de Ville was completed around 1914 and the façade was modernised in 1968.
Twin towns – sister cities
Wattrelos is twinned with:
Notable people
Madelyne Delcroix (born 1946) - aerobatics pilot
See also
Communes of the Nord department