Few are the towns where art runs in the blood. Since the beginning of its history, Tourcoing has done much more than cultivate it : it has exploited its infinite resources by constantly throwing bridges between art and religion, art and industrie, creation and production.

Nothing in it is isolated, everything is linked intimately. Creation, Tourcoing's "raison d'être", is part of even the most ordinary people's daily life. For generations, it an element of the Tourquennoise soul.