Vieux-Lille is a district in the north of Lille. It is the district with the most pre-19th-century buildings. It still boasts many cobbled streets and traces of the canals that crisscrossed the city in centuries gone by. It is home to 20,000 inhabitants.
Entrance to Vieux-Lille via rue Esquermoise
Rue Doudin, in the formerly popular part of Vieux-Lille
Place aux Oignons
rue des Arts, formerly rue des Récollets
Rue Esquermoise is a street in Lille.
Rue Esquermoise seen from Place du Général-de-Gaulle.
Passage to rue de Weppes
View of the canal from the Weppes bridge in the mid-19th century.
The street in the 1910s, with 3 parked tramcars.