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Roubaix (US: / r uː ˈ b eɪ / roo-BAY, French: or ⓘ; Dutch: Robaais; West Flemish: Roboais; Picard: Roubés) is a city in northern France, located in the Lille metropolitan area on the Belgian border.
- La Piscine Museum. The city’s museum opened in 2000 and is nothing short of spectacular. For starters the venue is a converted 1930s Art Deco swimming pool: The pool chamber, its galleries, tiled walls and fabulous stained window form the main exhibition hall, while a former textile factory next door provides further exhibition space.
- La Manufacture. It’s only right that you should pull on the cloth-making thread while you’re in Roubaix. The city has maintained its textile heritage at La Manufacture, a museum in the former Craye factory.
- Villa Cavroix. You can see where a big chunk of the textile wealth was spent at this astonishing modernist house in Croix. Villa Cavroix was built for Paul Cavrois, a textile industrialist and designed by the illustrious Robert Mallet-Stevens.
- Parc Barbieux. Found just to the south of the centre, Roubaix’ main park has an interesting origin story: The water channel that meanders through the centre of the park is the vestige on abortive attempt to link the centre of Roubaix with the Marque River.
Visit Roubaix (Hauts-de-France, France) Book hotels, flights, car hire. Roubaix is located near the north-eastern frontier of France (with Belgium), and to the north-east of Lille (to which it is connected by metro). It is a substantial town of 100,000 inhabitants.
En France, la commune de Roubaix fait partie du département du Nord en région Hauts-de-France. Au sein de l' arrondissement de Lille , la commune appartient à Métropole européenne de Lille (MEL), avec 89 autres communes dont Lille .
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Formerly an important textile town and today a centre for mail order, the City of Art and History of Roubaix boasts numerous assets. Along the visit, one can discover the lively Grand'Place square, lined with beautiful buildings, the former cotton spinning mill which now is home to the World Work Archives centre, the magnificent Barbieux park ...
