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Valenciennes
Valenciennes: lifestyle, culture and campus
Valenciennes, a young university town, offers 200 professional courses, post higher secondary level
- 1 University, 12 institutes offering the BTS, and preparatory classes to the Grandes Ecoles (higher institutes of education in business, engineering or humanities).
- 1 National School for Technicians
- 1 Fine Arts Institute, 1 Nursing Institute and 5 Institutes offering training in higher education
Valenciennes is also a cultural centre with a multimedia library, which nicely blends heritage and modernity, a high band-width information network called Anneau Citoyen, a newly renovated Fine Arts Museum, a theatre called the Phénix and also a multiplex cinema centre with 16 halls.
Valenciennes, a lively and commercial city.
Valenciennes benefits from a strategic geographic position, and a cultural heritage with ancient roots. Titled the ‘Athens of the North’, Valenciennes is the hometown of many artists and scholars: Froissart, Watteau, Carpeaux etc… 50 winners of the Prix de Rome (a scholarship for art students) were originally from Valenciennes and have added to the city’s repute.
As an educational and cultural centre Valenciennes well deserves to be the capital of the Hainaut Region. The city is now reinforcing its economic future by developing its competencies in the area of digital technology and terrestrial transports. In recent years, new structures have been put in place to welcome 20,000 students.
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