Tourcoing

Tourcoing (/tuʁ.kwɛ̃/) est une commune française située dans le département du Nord, dans les Hauts-de-France, limitrophe de la Belgique. Surnommée « la cité du Broutteux », la ville fait partie de la Métropole européenne de Lille dont elle est un des pôles urbains. Avec 99 160 habitants, elle est la quatrième ville de la région Hauts-de-France, derrière Lille, Amiens et Roubaix. Elle est également le chef-lieu de deux cantons. Comme pour la ville voisine de Roubaix, Tourcoing est notable pour l'essor économique qu'elle connaît grâce au textile durant la révolution industrielle au XIXe siècle.

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Hôtel de Ville, Tourcoing

The Hôtel de Ville (French pronunciation: [otɛl də vil], City Hall) is a historic building in Tourcoing, Nord, northern France, standing on the Rue Paul Doumer. It was designated a monument historique by the French government in 1981.

Government Landmark

Tourcoing (French: [tuʁkwɛ̃] ; Dutch: Toerkonje [tuːrˈkɔɲə]; West Flemish: Terkoeje; Picard: Tourco) is a city in northern France on the Belgian border. It is designated municipally as a commune within the department of Nord. Located to the north-northeast of Lille, adjacent to Roubaix, Tourcoing is the chef-lieu of two cantons and the fourth largest city in the French region of Hauts-de-France ranked by population with about 97,000 inhabitants. Together with the cities of Lille, Roubaix, Villeneuve-d'Ascq and eighty-six other communes, Tourcoing is part of four-city-centred metropolitan area inhabited by more than 1.1 million people: the Métropole Européenne de Lille. To a greater extent, Tourcoing belongs to a vast conurbation formed with the Belgian cities of Mouscron, Kortrijk and Tournai, which gave birth to the first European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation in January 2008, Lille–Kortrijk–Tournai with an aggregate of just over 2 million inhabitants.

Landmark Neighbourhood

397 m

Jardin botanique de Tourcoing

The Jardin botanique de Tourcoing (11,900 m2) is a municipal botanical garden and arboretum located at 32 rue du Moulin Fagot, Tourcoing, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. It is open daily; admission is free. The garden was established in 1917 on the site of a former private garden, and has recently been renovated and extended. Today it is arranged into five major sections: Cherry tree allée Greenhouses for collections and education French garden, divided into four quadrants English garden New garden with a North American theme The garden contains fine specimens of Fagus sylvatica, Pinus nigra, and Tilia platyphyllos, as well as trees including Acer pseudoplatanus, Aesculus hippocastanum, Fraxinus excelsior, Platanus × hispanica, Populus nigra, Prunus serrulata, Robinia pseudoacacia, Taxus baccata, and Tilia platyphyllos, with lesser trees including Acer platanoides, Ailanthus altissima, Crataegus, Fagus sylvatica, Ginkgo biloba, Gleditsia triacanthos, Ilex aquifolium, Pinus griffithii, Pinus mugo, Pinus nigra, Pyrus communis, Salix alba, Sophora japonica, Taxus baccata, and Tilia americana.

Landmark Park

563 m

Canton of Tourcoing-2

The canton of Tourcoing-2 is an administrative division of the Nord, a department I northern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Tourcoing. It consists of part of Tourcoing commune:

Neighbourhood

952 m

Institution libre du Sacré-Cœur

The Institution Libre du Sacré-Cœur is the oldest and most prestigious school of Tourcoing, next to Lille, France. Its current name is the Collège de Tourcoing (Tourcoing School).

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