Immersive walk in Roubaix The courage to start again

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.

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   Stop 1

   5 min

   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)

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   Stop 2

   2 min

   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.

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   Stop 3

   2 min

   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.

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   Stop 4

   2 min

   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)

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   Stop 5

   8 min

   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.

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   Stop 6

   3 min

   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.

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   Hotel de Ville de Roubaix

   3 min

   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)

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   Stop 8

   2 min

   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.

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   Stop 9

   2 min

   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.

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    Stop 10

    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.

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    Archives nationales du monde du travail

    3 min

    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)

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    Stop 12

    2 min

    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.

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    Stop 13

    2 min

    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)

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    Stop 14

    2 min

    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)

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    Stop 15

    3 min

    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.

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    Stop 16

    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.

• Wheelchair accessible
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Service animals allowed
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
• All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible

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