La Piscine in Roubaix and the Louvre-Lens

Glints of glazed tiles over warm water, a hint of waxed wood in the air: in Roubaix, Albert Baert’s 1927 Art Deco swimming pool keeps its basin, cabins, and mosaics intact, now framing textiles and sculpture. Twenty-five minutes from Lille, La Piscine speaks to the region’s industrial past; 35 km further, the Louvre-Lens sets its Time Gallery on a former coal pit, with a clear chronological layout and cool daylight filtering from above. From a bathhouse aura to a reimagined mining plain—two lenses on art and place, no fluff.

We collect you at your Lille hotel in a Mercedes, with a dedicated driver managing timing and comfort throughout. With a private chauffeur in Lille, it’s 20–25 minutes to Roubaix, then roughly 40 minutes along the D941 to Lens; while you explore, the driver waits, adapts the schedule, and can point you to a brasserie on rue de l’Espérance in Roubaix or a café by the Louvre-Lens park. Back mid-to-late afternoon, luggage on board if needed, and photo stops whenever you wish.