Place Rihour

Most visitors will see the Place Rihour while they're in Lille, as it is home to a metro station and the tourist information centre. The latter is inside what remains of the Palais Rihour (basically the former chapel), which once covered the whole of this site. Visit for maps and leaflets as well as to buy tickets for tours and events. The hourly minibus tour of Lille leaves just outside.


Those amenities aside, it is a fairly average square: not unpleasant, but less scenic than the nearby Grand'Place. Nonetheless, the restaurants in the corner opposite the Palais offer a good location to sit and relax.

Right in central Lille, this is one of the places tourists should stop by, if only just for the tourist information center which is off on one side of Place Rihour. As a side note, the center only provides limited information.
Around Place Rihour, there are plenty of shops (a mix of the named and globalized brands to smaller and more local stores), along with plenty of restaurants to choose from. This is right above the Rihour metro station - although you could probably get here by foot from most areas of central Lille.
There is of course, also the Rihour Palace which provides a nice photo opportunity.