Tourcoing
Tourcoing
Tourco ( West Flemish) | |
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 Tourcoing Town Hall | |
 Flag .svg) Coat of arms | |
Location of Tourcoing  | |
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| Coordinates: 50°43′26″N 3°09′40″E / 50.723907°N 3.161168°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Hauts-de-France |
| Department | Nord |
| Arrondissement | Lille |
| Canton | Tourcoing-1 and 2 |
| Intercommunality | Métropole Européenne de Lille |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Doriane Bécue[1] (DVC) |
| Area 1 | 15.19 km2 (5.86 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[2] | 99,011 |
| • Density | 6,500/km2 (17,000/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 59599 /59200 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Tourcoing (French: ranked by population with about 97,000 inhabitants.
Together with the cities of Lille, Roubaix,
Lille–Kortrijk–Tournai with an aggregate of just over 2 million inhabitants.[8]
History
The city was the site of a significant victory for France during the
Population
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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-metre (262-foot) high bell tower with more than 80 bells.
- Hospice de Havre, founded in 1260. The cloister and the chapel date from the seventeenth century.
- Hôtel de ville (1885), in Napoleon III-style.
- Jardin botanique de Tourcoing, a botanical garden and arboretum.
Transport
The
Somain-Halluin Railway
.
Notable people
- Yohan Cabaye, footballer
- Jean-Marc Degraeve, chess grandmaster
- Stéphane Denève, conductor
- Brigitte Fossey, actress
- Anna Gomis, wrestler
- Henri Padou, water polo player and 1924 Olympic gold medallist
- Brigitte Lahaie, pornstar
- cardinal, cousin of
- Marcel Lefebvre, missionary priest and, later, archbishop, cousin of Joseph-Charles
- Mr. Sam, a popular deejay and producer running his own record label since 2008.
- Albert Roussel, composer
- Yves Devernay, organist
Guilbert de Lannoy (1545-c. 1601) and his son Jean de Lannoy (1575-c. 1605) were Protestants from Tourcoing who resettled in Leiden, Holland. Jean's son,
Franklin Roosevelt.[12]
Notable Startups
In 2013, Maxime Piquette and Charles De Potter founded iCreo, a digital audio company in Tourcoing. The company created RadioKing, a platform for internet radio, and Ausha, a platform for podcast hosting and marketing.[13] It received support from regional funders, Nord France Amorquage and IRD Gestion.[14] The company is now the platform for media outlets Le Figaro, Liberation, l'Équipe and AFP, as well as large corporations and independent content producers.[15]
International relations
Twin towns - sister cities
Tourcoing is
twinned with:[16]
Biella, Italy
Bottrop, Germany
Jastrzębie-Zdrój, Poland- Mitte (Berlin), Germany
- Mühlhausen, Germany
Partyzanski (Minsk), Belarus
Other forms of cooperation
See also
- Battle of Tourcoing (1794)
- Free Institution of Sacred Heart
- Communes of the Nord department
- Verlaine Message Museum
References
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 6 June 2023.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ INSEE commune file
- ISSN 1277-1422.
Bois-Grenier, Le Maisnil, Fromelles, Aubers et Radinghem-en-Weppes. Soit 6000 habitants supplémentaires pour une MEL qui compte désormais 90 communes…
- ^ Ezelin, Perrine (2 April 2015). "European Metropole of Lille Local Action Plan" (PDF). Edinburgh, UK: CSI Europe URBACT. p. 3. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
- ^ URBACT (29 May 2015). "Lille". Edinburgh, UK. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
- ^ Neveu, Clarisse (15 December 2016). "Métropole Européenne de Lille : les vice-présidents et conseillers métropolitains délégués élus" [European Metropolis of Lille : elected vice-presidents and metropolitan delegate-councilors]. MEL. Communiqué de presse (in French). Lille, F: Métropole Européenne de Lille. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
La fusion, effective au 1er janvier 2017, acte un élargissement historique du territoire de la Métropole Européenne de Lille, passant de 85 à 90 communes pour près d'1.2 million d'habitants.
- ^ Durand, Frédéric (12 May 2015). "Theoretical framework of the cross border space production the case of the Eurometropolis Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai" (PDF). Luxembourg, L: EUBORDERSCAPES. p. 18. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
- ISBN 0-394-71220-X.
- ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Tourcoing, EHESS (in French).
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- ^ "Pilgrim Village Families Sketch: Phillip Delano/De la Noye". American Ancestors. New England Historic Genealogical Society. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
- ^ "3 Questions a Maxime Piquette". City of Roubaix.
- ^ Hamon-Beugin, Valentin. "Ausha, une start-up française à la conquête du marché des podcasts". Economie. Le Figaro.
- ^ Tucker, Charlotte. "French startup Ausha raises €1.2 million to strengthen its podcast platform in France and Europe". EU Startups. Menlo Media.
- ^ "Villes Amies". tourcoing.fr (in French). Tourcoing. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tourcoing.
- Tourcoing town council website (in French)
- Tourcoing Volley-Ball Lille Métropole (Official website of the top team, in French)
- See pictures from Antonio Mucherino's web site
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