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      <title>A free weekend in Lille: the walking loop, free entry with conditions and what you still pay for</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A weekend in Lille with no entry tickets is built around a 3 to 4 km walking loop, the Citadelle and the free first Sunday. The two-day plan, the free entry that only applies to some visitors, and a dated example of what the listings offer.]]></description>
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      <title>Things to do in Lille on a Sunday: Wazemmes market, free museums on the first Sunday and places that close</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sunday is a good day for Lille: Wazemmes market runs until 2pm, the museums open, and they are free for everyone on the first Sunday of the month. The plan for the day, the bookings worth making, the closures and the limits of free entry.]]></description>
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      <title>What&apos;s open in Lille on each day of the week: museums, markets and closing days</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Before deciding what to do in Lille, the first question is not the weather but the day of the week. Tuesday closes half the museums, Monday opens only one of them in the afternoon, and Wazemmes market runs on just three mornings. The day-by-day table, and the plans that work.]]></description>
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      <title>The Marquette-lez-Lille braderie: the first Sunday in August, in the Abbaye district</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In Marquette-lez-Lille, the Abbaye district braderie (a street flea market) fills a single morning on the first Sunday in August, and has done for more than forty years. The dates of the last two editions, pitch prices, and the other braderie in the town that people mix it up with.]]></description>
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      <title>Moules-frites at the Braderie de Lille: recorded prices, quiet hours and tonnages nobody can check</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Moules-frites (mussels and chips) are the meal of the Braderie de Lille, and the piles of shells outside restaurants its best-known image. The recorded prices, the times to eat without waiting, and why the tonnes of mussels quoted every year rest on no published figure.]]></description>
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      <title>Restaurants closed during the Braderie de Lille: why being allowed to open is not the same as opening</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Lille's bars and restaurants may open until 5am during the braderie, yet some close for the whole weekend. The permitted hours, their limits, and how to avoid being left without a table on Saturday night.]]></description>
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      <title>Braderie de Lille opening times: stalls, shops, bars and cars all keep different hours</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The City of Lille announces [[fait:aimant.duree|34 hours]] non-stop, France 3 reported a break at midnight, Lille Tourism gives other hours again, and the bars have their own by-law. This table puts each set of hours in its place, edition by edition, so you know what is open when you arrive.]]></description>
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      <title>The Vieux-Lille braderie: the June one, and the old town during the Grande Braderie</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:46:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The name Vieux-Lille braderie covers two events: a neighbourhood braderie at the start of summer, and the most crowded sector of the Grande Braderie in September. Dates, opening hours, and the figures filed under the right braderie, gaps included.]]></description>
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      <title>The Braderie de Lille 2026 poster: what is published, what is sold, what is missing</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:46:38 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Élise Vandamme]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[The City of Lille sells an official Braderie poster, but publishes neither its price nor where to buy it online. The only free document to download, the map of the sectors, is not the poster.]]></description>
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      <title>A weekend in Lille: why the itinerary changes with or without the Braderie</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:46:38 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Baptiste Cornil]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Same city, two different weekends. Without the Braderie, everything is 10 to 20 minutes' walk away. With it, the same walks take twice as long, two parks close and the choice shrinks to two or three zones. Measured distances, the closures to know about, and what to drop first.]]></description>
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      <title>What&apos;s on in Lille this weekend: where to find the current listings, and the Braderie exception</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The weekend programme in Lille changes every week: here is where to read it up to date, a dated example to show what it contains, and the weekend when the listings matter least, Braderie weekend with its road closures.]]></description>
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      <title>Braderie de Lille map: sectors, road closures and the official PDF</title>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Élise Vandamme]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[The City of Lille publishes a downloadable map that divides the event into sectors: antique dealers on boulevard de la Liberté, shops in the centre, children at the Gare Saint-Sauveur. The checked link, the streets closed to traffic, and the limits of the document.]]></description>
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      <title>The Grande Braderie de Lille: what sets it apart from the neighbourhood braderies</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:46:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Boulevard de la Liberté for the antique dealers, the Gare Saint-Sauveur for the children, whole districts for the residents: the Grande Braderie is not just another flea market. Its origins go back to 1127, but the word that names it has two competing birth dates, and its real figures remain vague.]]></description>
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      <title>What to do in Lille: the sure bets, the overrated and the best time for each</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:46:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Vieux-Lille, the Palais des Beaux-Arts, the Hospice Comtesse and the Citadelle are worth the trip. The centre during the Braderie, Euralille and some guided tours less so. The bookings that help and the ones that don't, and the best time of day for each site.]]></description>
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      <title>A weekend in Lille: a two-day plan timed on foot, with or without the Braderie</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:46:38 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Baptiste Cornil]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Two days in Lille with walking distances, realistic visit times, museum closing days and the day trips to drop. The same itinerary recalculated for Braderie weekend, when you walk at 3 km/h.]]></description>
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      <title>Braderie de Lille dates: the first-weekend-of-September rule and its one exception</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:46:38 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Élise Vandamme]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[The next Braderie de Lille is set for [[fait:aimant.dates.2027|Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 September 2027]]. The rule that fixes the date, the last six editions to check it against, the 2024 exception, and the Saturday night hours on which the sources disagree.]]></description>
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      <title>The Lille Braderie: 34 hours of bargain hunting, in official figures and hour by hour</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:45:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Élise Vandamme]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[[[fait:aimant.exposants.2026|5,425]] exhibitors, [[fait:aimant.etals.2026|53 km]] of stalls and a crowd nobody knows how to count. The council's figures edition by edition, the Saturday 4pm peak, the quiet slots, and the data published nowhere.]]></description>
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      <title>Left luggage, toilets and drinking water in Lille</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:45:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaux Delobel]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dropping your bags between the train and the hotel takes five minutes and a few euros, as long as you know which station to go to. Left luggage prices compared, and the real state of the documentation on toilets and drinking water.]]></description>
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      <title>Things to do in Lille: the sights worth your time</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:45:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Baptiste Cornil]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Three things carry a visit to Lille: the Braderie, Vieux-Lille and the trio of museums plus belfry. Admission prices recorded site by site, whether the City Pass pays off, and what is overrated.]]></description>
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      <title>Where to stay in Lille: the districts compared</title>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaux Delobel]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Vieux-Lille, the station district, Euralille or Wazemmes: the choice comes down to three measurable criteria, walking distance, price by season and noise. With the tourist tax rates and the extra charges nobody displays.]]></description>
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      <title>Lille metro and transport map: lines, hubs and where to download it</title>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaux Delobel]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Two metro lines, two tram lines, the Lianes buses and V'lille: Lille's network is quick to read. What the official map leaves out, however, is worth knowing before you rely on it to plan a day.]]></description>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaux Delobel]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Leaving the car on the edge of town and finishing by metro costs no more than a ticket, on one condition that few pages explain: to drive out of a park and ride, you need a journey validated that same day. Opening hours site by site, the real cost, and where the sources contradict each other.]]></description>
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      <title>Lille map: the centre, the districts and walking distances</title>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaux Delobel]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Lille is compact, and that is its main practical strength. Measured distances between the districts, what the word "centre" really covers, and why the city's geography changes completely one weekend a year.]]></description>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaux Delobel]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[The ilévia network raised its fares on [[fait:transports.hausse.date|1 August 2026]], and half the guides online still show the old prices. Here are the fares that apply now, the right ticket for the length of your stay, and what the operator does not publish.]]></description>
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      <title>Parking in Lille: zones, rates and the city centre traps</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:45:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaux Delobel]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Street parking in Lille is zoned by colour, and the rates jump sharply after two hours. The prices zone by zone, what multi-storey car parks charge, when parking is free, and the figures that no public source publishes.]]></description>
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