A monumental triumphal arch raised under Louis XIV to mark his conquest of Lille, richly carved with royal emblems. Listen to its story on your smartphone as you admire the facade.

The 104-metre UNESCO-listed belfry crowning Lille's Hôtel de Ville, the tallest municipal belfry in France and an emblem of Flemish civic pride.

The surviving Gothic remains of the 15th-century palace of the Dukes of Burgundy, once the seat of Philip the Good's court in Lille.

Lille's lively central square, ringed by ornate Flemish facades and crowned by the column of the Goddess honouring the city's resistance during the 1792 siege.

A jewel of Flemish Renaissance architecture, this 17th-century old stock exchange surrounds a peaceful courtyard filled with a beloved second-hand book market.

An elegant early-20th-century neo-Flemish belfry topped by a gilded statue, built to house Lille's Chamber of Commerce.

Lille's cathedral, begun in the 19th century and completed only in 1999, celebrated for its luminous translucent-marble west front.

A hospital founded in 1237 by Countess Jeanne of Flanders, now a museum whose chapel and old ward preserve Lille's Flemish heritage.

The birthplace of General Charles de Gaulle, now a museum tracing the early life of France's wartime leader and first president of the Fifth Republic.