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By CityWhispers
Free cancellation available
Price is AU$16 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 1h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

  • Rediscover Roubaix through an immersive and poetic sound walk: “The courage to start again”.

    Equipped with an audio headset, let yourself be carried by a poetic narrative and an original musical creation, between traces of the industrial past and energy of renewal.

    Roubaix has emerged as a city that transforms its history through art, creation and new uses. An invitation to slow down, listen and reflect on your own ability to start over.

    “Rubaix could have chosen demolition. She chose metamorphosis. »

    More than a walk, an experience between memory, future and transformation.

Activity location

  • La Piscine - Musée d'art et d'industrie André Diligent de Roubaix
    • 23 Rue de l'Espérance
    • 59100, Roubaix, Hauts-de-France, France

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • La Piscine - Musée d'art et d'industrie André Diligent de Roubaix
    • 23 Rue de l'Espérance
    • 59100, Roubaix, Hauts-de-France, France

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Immersive walk in Roubaix The courage to start again

  • Activity duration is 1 hour1h
    1h
  • English
Starting time: 4:00 PM
Price details
AU$16.20 x 2 AdultsAU$32.40
Total
Price is AU$32.40
Until Sat, 7 Nov

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Wireless headsets included

Know before you book

    • Wheelchair accessible
    • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
    • Service animals allowed
    • Public transport options are available nearby
    • Transport options are wheelchair accessible
    • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

La Piscine - Musée d'art et d'industrie André Diligent de Roubaix

  • 5m
  • Admission ticket not included
Old swimming pool turned museum, La Piscine embodies the art of starting over. Here, what seemed finished is reborn in another form, as if memory itself were learning to breathe. (Exterior visit only)

4 Rue Pasteur

  • 2m
Square Jean-Baptiste Pennel - small island of calm on the threshold of the city, this square opens the way under the sign of hope. We already feel that dignity can survive the hardest times.

Eldorado, Lille 3000

  • 2m
This big blue cat pops up like a tender mirage in the middle of Roubaix. It recalls dreams of prosperity, but also what remains when illusions fall.

ENSAIT - École d'ingénieurs Textiles

  • 2m
  • Admission ticket not included
School of textiles and know-how, ENSAIT carries the memory of a city that built its power on intelligence as much as on work. Another form of thread connects the past and the future here. (Exterior visit only)

Avenue Jean Lebas

  • 8m
A major artery in Roubaix, it keeps the momentum of a city that wanted to go far. As you walk through it, you can feel both yesterday’s ambition and the silence left by the industry’s retreat.

Grand Place

  • 3m
In the heart of the city, the Grand Place unites power, the crowd and ordinary life. It is a space where collective history intersects the simple gestures of everyday life.

Hotel de Ville de Roubaix

  • 3m
  • Admission ticket not included
Majestic and theatrical, the Town Inn displays the industrial pride of Roubaix. But in its stone, a more fragile question is also read: how to stay standing when greatness wavers? (Exterior visit only)

Église Saint-Martin de Roubaix

  • 2m
With its three arrows and successive reconstructions, the church murmurs a lesson other than that of power: falling does not prevent it from rising again and again.

Hôtel de Ville

  • 2m
Column of Kisses – next to the Roubaix City Hall. More discreet than the great monuments, it evokes the intimate bonds that cross a life: love, consolation, separation. A work that invites us to look differently at what connects us to others.

Library De Roubaix (Pass by)

Instead of knowing and circulating stories, it marks a passage between intimate memory and shared memory. Here, the city seems to keep telling itself differently.

Archives nationales du monde du travail

  • 3m
  • Admission ticket not included
Old textile fortress turned archives, Motte-Bossut summarizes the metamorphosis of Roubaix by itself. Where matter was produced, traces of lives and struggles are kept today. (Exterior visit only)

Boulevard du Général Leclerc

  • 2m
Monument to the Dead. This monument gives form to the loss and pain that the city has gone through. But above the grief, it also reveals a requirement: to remember to continue living.

La Villa Derveaux

  • 2m
  • Admission ticket not included
This Art Nouveau villa introduces another idea of resistance: not only to survive, but to preserve the taste for beauty. Even in an industrial city, grace found its place. (Exterior visit only)

Villa Dubois (La maison verte)

  • 2m
  • Admission ticket not included
With its green glazed bricks and mix of styles, La Maison Verte asserts that imagination can inhabit the working-class city. It transforms the facade into a manifesto of creativity and know-how. (Exterior visit only)

Square Camille Claudel

  • 3m
Between the house and the wall portrait, this square opens a space for pause and gaze. It makes us feel that a work, a city, a life can be reborn after silence.

Rue de l'Espérance (Pass by)

This street almost closes the march as a discreet response to all of the above. Here, hope is not abstract: it takes the form of a city that is still trying to start over.

Location

Activity location

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    La Piscine - Musée d'art et d'industrie André Diligent de Roubaix
    • 23 Rue de l'Espérance
    • 59100, Roubaix, Hauts-de-France, France

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    La Piscine - Musée d'art et d'industrie André Diligent de Roubaix
    • 23 Rue de l'Espérance
    • 59100, Roubaix, Hauts-de-France, France

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