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Tourcoing is a commune
Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative divisions in the France. The French word commune appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin Medieval commune, meaning a small gathering of people sharing a common life, from Latin communis, things held in common....
 in the Nord department in northern France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
.

It is located near the cities of Lille
Lille

Lille is a city in northern France. It is the principal city of the Urban Community of Lille M?tropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country behind those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille....
 and Roubaix
Roubaix

Roubaix is a Communes of France in the Nord Departments of France in northern France.It is located near the cities of Lille and Tourcoing and the Belgium border....
 and the Belgian
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
 border.








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Tourcoing is a commune
Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative divisions in the France. The French word commune appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin Medieval commune, meaning a small gathering of people sharing a common life, from Latin communis, things held in common....
 in the Nord department in northern France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
.

It is located near the cities of Lille
Lille

Lille is a city in northern France. It is the principal city of the Urban Community of Lille M?tropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country behind those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille....
 and Roubaix
Roubaix

Roubaix is a Communes of France in the Nord Departments of France in northern France.It is located near the cities of Lille and Tourcoing and the Belgium border....
 and the Belgian
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
 border.

Main sights

  • Church of St Christopher (15th-16th centuries), considered one of the most beautiful Neo-Gothic edifices of Nord. In stone and brickwork, it has an 80 m-high bell tower with more than 80 bells.
  • Hospice de Havre, founded in 1260. The cloister and the chapel date from the 17th century.
  • Hôtel de ville (1885), in Napoleon III-style.
  • Jardin botanique de Tourcoing
    Jardin botanique de Tourcoing

    The Jardin botanique de Tourcoing is a municipal botanical garden and arboretum located at 32 rue du Moulin Fagot, Tourcoing, Nord , Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France....
    , a botanical garden
    Botanical garden

    Botanical gardens grow a wide variety of plants primarily to categorize and document for scientific purposes. Botanists and horticulturalists tend the flora and maintain the garden's library and herbarium of dried and documented plant material....
     and arboretum
    Arboretum

    An arboretum is a collection of trees. Related collections include a fruticetum , and a viticetum, a collection of vines. More commonly today, an arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study....
    .


Personalities

  • Albert Roussel
    Albert Roussel

    File:Roussel.gifAlbert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a France composer. Although Roussel spent seven years as a midshipman, only turning to music as an adult, he became one of the most prominent French composers of the inter-war period....
    , composer
  • Brigitte Fossey
    Brigitte Fossey

    Brigitte Fossey, born in Tourcoing, Nord , is a France acting....
    , actress
  • Brigitte Lahaie
    Brigitte Lahaie

    Brigitte Lahaie is a France Pornographic actor. She began her career at age 20 and performed in Pornography films from 1976 through 1980....
    , pornstar
  • Joseph-Charles Lefèbvre
    Joseph-Charles Lefèbvre

    Joseph-Charles Lef?bvre was a France Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archdiocese of Bourges from 1943 to 1969, and was elevated to the Cardinal in 1960....
    , bishop of Bourges, cardinal
    Cardinal (Catholicism)

    A cardinal is a senior Ecclesiology official, usually a Bishop , of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope....
    , cousin of
  • Marcel Lefebvre
    Marcel Lefebvre

    Marcel-Fran?ois Lefebvre was a France Roman Catholic Church archbishop. Following a career as an Apostolic Delegate for West Africa and Superior General of the Holy Ghost Fathers, he took the lead in opposing the changes within the Church associated with the Second Vatican Council....
    , missionary priest and, later, controversial archbishop, cousin of Joseph-Charles
  • Mr. Sam
    Mr. Sam

    Samuel Paquet , better known by his stage name, Mr. Sam, is a French techno/trance music music disc jockey and Record producer....
    , a popular deejay and producer running his own record label since 2008.
  • Stéphane Denève
    Stéphane Denève

    St?phane Den?ve is a France conducting. Born in Tourcoing, France, and a graduate of the Paris Conservatoire, Den?ve has worked as conducting assistant to Sir Georg Solti with the Orchestre de Paris, Georges Pr?tre at the Op?ra National de Paris, and Seiji Ozawa at the Saito Kinen Festival in 1998....
    , conductor


Twin towns

  • Berlin
    Berlin

    Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
    , Germany
    Germany

    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
  • Biella
    Biella

    Biella is a town and comune in the northern Italy region of Piemonte, the capital of the Province of Biella, with some 46,000 inhabitants as of 2007....
    , Italy
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
  • Bottrop
    Bottrop

    is a city in west central Germany, on the Rhine-Herne Canal, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Located in the Ruhr area, Bottrop adjoins Essen, Germany, Oberhausen, Gladbeck and Dorsten....
    , Germany
    Germany

    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
  • Guimarães
    Guimarães

    Guimar?es is a city and List of municipalities of Portugal in northwestern Portugal in the province of Minho and in the Braga . In the 9th century, V?mara Peres was able to expel the Moors and founded a fortified town under his own name Vimaranis which later became Guimaranis, present day Guimar?es....
    , Portugal
    Portugal

    Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
  • Jastrzebie Zdroj
    Jastrzebie Zdrój

    Jastrzebie Zdr?j is a city in south Poland with 94,072 inhabitants . Until the 20th century it was a spa town village situated in Upper Silesia....
    , Poland
    Poland

    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
  • Mouscron
    Mouscron

    Mouscron is a Wallonia city and Municipalities in Belgium located in the Belgium Provinces of Belgium of Hainaut . The Mouscron municipality includes the old communes of Dottignies , Luingne, and Herseaux ....
    , Belgium
    Belgium

    * A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
  • Mühlhausen
    Mühlhausen

    M?hlhausen is a city in the federal state Thuringia, Germany. It is the Capital of the Unstrut-Hainich district, and lies along the river Unstrut....
    , Germany
    Germany

    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
  • Rochdale
    Rochdale

    Rochdale is a large market town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amongst the foothills of the Pennines on the River Roch, north-northwest of Oldham, and north-northeast of the city of Manchester....
    , United Kingdom
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....


See also

  • Battle of Tourcoing (1794)
    Battle of Tourcoing (1794)

    The Battle of Tourcoing was fought near the town of Tourcoing, just north of Lille in northeastern France on 18 May 1794 and resulted the victory of the French under Major-Generals Joseph Souham and Jean Victor Marie Moreau over the Kingdom of Great Britain under the Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany and the Austrians under General th...
  • Free Institution of Sacred Heart
    Free Institution of Sacred Heart

    The Institution Libre du Sacr?-C?ur is the oldest and most prestigious school of Tourcoing, next to Lille in the North of France. Its current name is the Coll?ge de Tourcoing ....
  • Communes of the Nord department


External links

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