Cités minières
Rows of miners' houses form small, regular grids around the town. They are part of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais mining basin, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Tabula geographica minimalis · France
50.4330° N / 2.8279° E
A mining city in northern France, with rows of miners' housing, rail lines and slag heaps rising nearby





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Lens is in the Pas-de-Calais department, at the centre of the former coal basin of northern France. The mining era still shapes the map. Colonies of miners' housing, the cités minières, form small, regular grids among the town's streets. Railway lines that once served the pits curve through the area, and to the west the twin slag heaps of Loos-en-Gohelle rise.
The city was almost completely destroyed during the First World War and rebuilt afterward, so much of the centre dates from the reconstruction era. In 2012 the Louvre-Lens opened on a former pit site. Its long, low building sits in a park that stands out as a large open space on the map.
A Lens map poster also includes the Stade Bollaert-Delelis, home of RC Lens and famous for its passionate supporters. From the stadium to the mining terraces and the museum site, the map tells a story of work, loss and renewal in a precise, orderly way.
Rows of miners' houses form small, regular grids around the town. They are part of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais mining basin, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The museum's low glass-and-aluminium buildings lie on a former colliery site. On the map, the site appears as a calm, open parkland area near the centre.
RC Lens's stadium is a clear rectangle within the streets. For many supporters, it is the most important point on any map of the city.
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Lens holds deep loyalty. There are mining families with generations in the cités, football supporters in the Marek stand, and visitors who came for the Louvre and stayed longer. A map poster brings together all those versions of the city.
Add a match date, a street name, or simply the word Lens, and set your own coordinates. Choose Classic black & white, Noir, Paper, Blueprint or Sand. Downloads cost $9 in six sizes, and matte prints can be ordered with an optional frame.
Eme tabulam Lens| Magnitudo impressionis | Resolutio | Fasciculi |
|---|---|---|
| 30 × 40 cm (11.8 × 15.7″) | 3,543 × 4,724 px | PNG · PDF |
| 29.7 × 42 cm (A3, 11.7 × 16.5″) | 3,508 × 4,961 px | PNG · PDF |
| 42 × 59.4 cm (A2, 16.5 × 23.4″) | 4,961 × 7,016 px | PNG · PDF |
| 45.7 × 61 cm (18 × 24″) | 5,400 × 7,200 px | PNG · PDF |
| 50 × 70 cm (19.7 × 27.6″) | 5,906 × 8,268 px | PNG · PDF |
| 61 × 91.4 cm (24 × 36″) | 7,200 × 10,800 px | PNG · PDF |
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