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About Palace of Fine Arts of Lille
The Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille is one of the largest and finest art museums in France, second only to the Louvre among the country's fine-arts collections, housed in a grand and beautiful Belle Époque palace facing a monumental square. Its vast galleries display masterpieces of European painting from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, with celebrated works by Rubens, Van Dyck, Goya, Delacroix, Courbet and the Impressionists, alongside superb sculpture, drawings and a remarkable set of 18th-century relief maps of fortified cities. From Flemish and Dutch masters to French Romanticism, the collection is of exceptional richness. Grand, comprehensive and beautifully housed, the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille offers a superb journey through the great ages of European art, one of the cultural jewels of northern France and an essential destination for art lovers.