--- title: "Lesquin – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Lesquin, France: Lesquin is a commune in the department of Nord, northern France. Nearby: Pierre Mauroy Stadium, Lille University of Science and…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lesquin" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lesquin.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Lesquin_chemin_d%27annappes_pont.jpg/1920px-Lesquin_chemin_d%27annappes_pont.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Commune in Hauts-de-France, France # Lesquin Lesquin is a commune in the department of Nord, northern France. ![Lesquin](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Lesquin_chemin_d%27annappes_pont.jpg/1920px-Lesquin_chemin_d%27annappes_pont.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Lesquin · Velvet The place Lesquin is a commune in the department of Nord, northern France. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesquin), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Lesquin 7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. Pierre Mauroy Stadium The Stade Pierre-Mauroy, also known as the Decathlon Arena – Stade Pierre-Mauroy for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-use retractable roof stadium in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Metropolis of Lille, Northern France, that opened in August 2012. With a seating capacity of 50,186, it is the fourth-largest sports stadium in France and the home of French professional football club Lille. 2.7 km · Multi-use retractable roof stadium and Arena in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stade_Pierre-Mauroy) 2. Lille University of Science and Technology The Lille 1 University of Science and Technology was a French university located on a dedicated main campus in Villeneuve d'Ascq, near Lille, with 20,000 full-time students plus 14,500 students in continuing education. 1,310 permanent faculty members plus 1,200 staff and around 140 CNRS researchers work there in the different University Lille 1 institutes and 43 research labs. 3 km · Campus Lille 1, university located in Villeneuve d'Ascq, Lille, France · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lille_University_of_Science_and_Technology) 3. Institut industriel du Nord The Institut industriel du Nord was the engineering school and research institute at École Centrale de Lille from 1872 to 1991, within the campus of the Lille University of Science and Technology. 2.5 km · research and educational institute at École centrale de Lille (France) · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_industriel_du_Nord) 4. École nationale supérieure de chimie de Lille The École nationale supérieure de chimie de Lille was founded in 1894 as the Institut de chimie de Lille. It is part of the Community of Universities and Institutions Lille Nord de France. 3.2 km · French engineering College in Chemistry · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_nationale_sup%C3%A9rieure_de_chimie_de_Lille) 5. École polytechnique universitaire de Lille École polytechnique universitaire de Lille is a French engineering College created in 1974. It is one of the 204 Colleges accredited by the Commission des Titres d'Ingénieurs. 2.6 km · French engineering College · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_polytechnique_universitaire_de_Lille) 6. Telecom Lille 1 TELECOM Lille was a French public Grande école. In 2017, TELECOM Lille merges with the École des Mines Douai and becomes École des Mines-Télécom de Lille-Douai. 2.8 km · telecom engineering school at University of Lille 1 · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TELECOM_Lille_1) 7. town hall of Villeneuve-d'Ascq The Hôtel de Ville is a municipal building in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Nord in northern France, standing on Place Salvador-Allende. 3.5 km · town hall located in Nord department, France · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B4tel_de_Ville,_Villeneuve-d%27Ascq) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Lesquin **Airports:** Lille (LIL), 3 km · Ostend-Bruges (OST), 70 km · Brussels South Charleroi (CRL), 96 km\ **Stations:** Lille Airport, 3.5 km\ - Beauvais → Lesquin 148 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · €19–26 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/beauvais-to-lesquin) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Beauvais&to=Lesquin) - Paris (Roissy-en-France, Val-d'Oise) → Lesquin 180 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · €19–27 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/paris-roissy-en-france-val-doise-to-lesquin) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Paris+%28Roissy-en-France%2C+Val-d%27Oise%29&to=Lesquin) - Paris (Orly, Val-de-Marne) → Lesquin 212 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · €23–32 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/paris-orly-val-de-marne-to-lesquin) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Paris+%28Orly%2C+Val-de-Marne%29&to=Lesquin) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Lesquin) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Lesquin Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Lesquin. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 312 km 2. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 325 km 3. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 550 km 4. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 613 km 5. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 781 km If you know how people move in Lesquin – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Clesquin&title=Lesquin&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Flesquin), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Lesquin - [University of Lille](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/university-of-lille) cluster of several higher education insitutions in the area of Lille (France) in the form of a "Community of universities and higher education institutions", created in 2009 and dissolved in 2019 3 km - [Mélantois](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/melantois) area of France 2.2 km [The place page for Lesquin](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/lesquin) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on France](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-FR) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lesquin, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt