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The Chamber of Commerce belfry was built between 1910 and 1921 to the design of the celebrated local architect Louis Marie Cordonnier, who drew deliberately on the Flemish Renaissance style of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to root the new building in the region's identity. In the old Low Countries a belfry was never only decoration; it was the proud civic tower of a free merchant city, a symbol of commercial power and independence that rivalled the church spire. Cordonnier's tower carries a carillon of twenty five bells that chimes the melody of the P'tit Quinquin, a beloved Lille lullaby, every day at noon. Classified as a historic monument in 2016, the belfry still rises as the exclamation mark of the old town skyline, visible from across the surrounding squares.
Datos clave
- 76 metres — The height of the belfry rising above the Place du Theatre
- 1921 year — The year Cordonnier's Chamber of Commerce was completed
- 2016 year — The year the building was classified a historic monument
📍 Place du Théâtre, 59800, Lille