Guided tour: Palente and LIP, the changes in a district
Guided tour of the exhibition devoted to Bernard Faille's photographs of the Lip conflict in 1973. This visit continues with a discovery of the
Palente district.
Palente Village is in the centre of an area of farmland and orchards, near the Polygone, an army manoeuvre field until the mid-20th century.
This was the army's manoeuvring ground until the middle of the XXᵉ century.
In 1952, the Cité des fleurs was born: apartment buildings, individual and semi-detached houses built by the association
des Castors association. In 1958, Lip bought the vast estate and set up a factory and offices. 40% of the workers live in Palente. In 1973, when the company was declared bankrupt, the employees started a resistance movement reinventing the workers' struggle with new means of action: self-management, the creation of a new company, the creation of a new company.
self management, recovery of a war chest...
Reservation required
2.30 pm: Tuesdays 28 May, Saturday 22 June, 3 September and 22 October
- Base rate (Free of charge) : 8€
- Reduced rate (Reduced rate: Students, under-18s, member associations of the Tourist Office and Convention Bureau) : 6€
- Free (Free: for disabled people, jobseekers and children under 12.)
