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La station Tourcoing - Centre est une station de la ligne 2 du métro de Lille et de la ligne T du tramway de Lille, située à Tourcoing.
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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:
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Tourcoing
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.
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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.
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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.
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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).