Think you’ve already seen everything in Lille Métropole and are ready to expand your horizons a bit? Then do a day trip to Kortrijk (French: Courtrai), a Flemish city in the West Flanders region of Belgium.
You’ll be surprised how charming this Dutch-speaking city is and how easy it is to visit!
How to get to Kortrijk?
Kortrijk is only 36 minutes away by a regional TER train from Lille’s Lille-Flandres central train station and costs less than 10 EUR each way. From Roubaix, where I live, it is just 26 minutes away by TER regional train.
What to see in Kortrijk?
Together with the cities of Tournai and Lille, Kortrijk forms the transborder urban agglomeration subregion called the Eurométropole Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai.
Despite its close proximity to the French border, the city of Kortrijk has many distinct features with the Dutch language being one of them. However, it is easy to move around with the English language.
Here are the photos I have personally taken in my past trips to Kortrijk to inspire your visit:
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