Euralille, Lille

1 more image

Euralille is a huge, modern shopping centre on Avenue Corbusier between the Eurostar station and the older Gare Lille-Flandres. Our hotel was almost part of the shopping centre so we couldn’t avoid it. In fairness, it proved to be a useful place to shop for wine and small items we needed for the weekend. However, it's far from beautiful and something of an eyesore in contrast to the beautiful architecture in the centre of the city.

Eurlaille opened in 1994 and contains over 140 shops, including a large supermarket, a hotel, Hotel Lille Europe and a large garden )or more accurately open space), Parvis Francois Mitterand, which looked very popular with skateboarders and rollerbladers.

Euralille is a very modern quarter (dating back to the 90's) dedicated to business and trade which contrasts a lot with the old town.

It's a great place to go shopping. It's really huge ! And it's good to know that all shops are open on official holidays.

If you go out of the shopping mall Euralille on the side of "Esplanade François Mitterrand", you'll now see this sculpture representing a bunch of multicoloured tulips by a Japanese artist (Yayoi Kusama). It's called "Les tulipes de Shangri-La". Good to see such colours when the sky is grey ;-)

Euralille is a one of France's largest shopping centres.

It is conveniently located between the 2 main train stations, and houses around 140 shops over two storeys, along with a Hotel and offices.

There are plenty of cafe's as well, for a caffiene hit mid-shop.

The only negative is that it is not open on a Sunday!

What to buy: There are loads of womens and mens clothing stores, a couple of big sports stores, homewares and gifts.

If you have some time to kill before you catch the train, then definitely pay a visit to Euralille, the biggest shopping centre of Lille, next to the train stations. You'll find clothes, food, decoration, beauty saloons, ...

Especially the big supermarket Carrefour was interesting.