ROUBAIX, Northern France. Tuesday18th – Thursday 20th March. 2025. £310.00pp
Travel by Channel Tunnel in an Executive minibus. Leave around 10.00am. Travel to Roubaix and check in. Lunch time we walk to the stunning Art Deco swimming pool ‘Musee La Piscine’ now converted into an art gallery, tickets included.
Also visit the impressive Villa Carvois
Our overnight stay:
This ibis hotel is located in Roubaix, 300 yards from Euroteleport Metro Station and 8.7 miles from Lille city centre. With a 24-hour reception, it provides free fibre optic WiFi and air-conditioned rooms with flat-screen TVs.
Featuring a radio, a desk and a telephone, each soundproofed room at the ibis Lille Roubaix Centre has a private bathroom with hairdryer and bath or shower.
A buffet breakfast composed of sweet and savoury dishes such as eggs, fruit salad, yogurts and juices is served every day. Pastries baked on site and fresh French Madeleine cakes are also on offer, as well as a hot beverage and a piece of fruit to take away.
Outside of regular breakfast hours guests can also enjoy a lighter option, available from 04:00. A 24-hour snack-bar is also at your disposal. You can also have lunch and dinner at the onsite restaurant open 7 days a week.
Hotel is 1.1 miles from the train station
La Piscine Museum is 1,050 yards away
If Paris can turn an outmoded train station into a world-class museum (the Musée d’Orsay), why not transform an art-deco municipal swimming pool (built 1927–32) – an architectural masterpiece into a temple of the arts? This innovative museum, 12km northeast of Lille- Roubaix, showcases fine arts (paintings, sculptures, drawings) and applied arts (furniture, textiles, fashion) in a delightfully watery environment. Roubaix also has a beautiful Cathedral, Eglise St Martin in Grand Place.
Thursday visit Villa Cavrois an architectural manifesto, Villa Cavrois, the work of architect Robert Mallet-Stevens, a figure of the modernist school, was designed and built in Croix between 1929 and 1932 for Paul Cavrois, a textile industrialist from the Nord department, and his family.
Depart Roubaix Thursday late afternoon. returning home apprx 8.00pm
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