Les Lilas is a French commune located in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis in the region Île-de-France . Its inhabitants are called the Lilasiens, Lilasiennes .

Sights

Places and monuments

City Hall completed in 1884 , decor mayor of the III ^e Republic , especially the paintings:

• in the town hall: Le suffrage Universitaire , by Alfred-Henri Bramtot . Oil on mounted canvas, 1890 , exhibited in 1891 at the Salon des Champs-Élysées, chosen by the Fine Arts Commission of the General Council of the Seine to decorate the town hall of Lilas. A sketch of this painting is kept at the Petit Palais . The table represents a polling station and details the electoral act.
• in the main staircase: The Republic , by Jean-Léon Gérôme , a work produced for the official competition of 1848 by a young 24-year-old painter, in the tradition of paintings from the First Republic.
• in the main staircase: Jeunesse et Famille , two mounted canvases ordered from Édouard Vimont for the decoration of the town hall of the young town of Les Lilas, in 1889 . Two popular and rural scenes grouped together under the theme “the ages of life”.
• Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire Church , designed by the architectural firm Enia Architectes (Mathieu Chazelle, Simon Pallubicki, Brice Piechaczyk) and Galantino, was consecrated onJanuary 30, 2011. This white concrete church is adorned with a Resurrection of Christ by Claude Abeille and includes a Stations of the Cross by Laurence Bernot, stained glass windows by Alice and Didier Sancey, as well as three statues from the old temporary building built in 1887 with a structure and a wooden bell tower, which will have been used for more than a century and will be demolished in 2011.
• Théâtre du Garde-Chasse , located rue de Paris. It is the former communal village hall, built by Léopold Bévière (1903-1905) on the former site of Paul de Kock’s gardenwhere the latter had set up a green theater. The exterior is inspired by the Grand Trianon . Inside, woodwork and ceiling have been classified in the supplementary inventory of historical monuments since 1990. The Belle Époque rolled canvasdecorating the ceiling is the work of Victor Tardieu (1907-1910) and represents a famous scene from the period. operetta Véronique by André Messager. Seven sketches, “execution-size fragments” produced for the competition, were acquired by the City. Since 1995, the restored building has been converted into a 318-seat performance hall for live shows, cinema or exhibitions (the seats are retractable).
• Fort Romainville , rue de la Resistance, built in the mid xix ^th  century ( 1844 – 1850 ) in the context of building the belt of strong Parisian . Occupied by the Prussians in 1870 , it served above all from 1940 to 1944 as a German internment camp , as a hostage reserve for the Paris region and as a regrouping center for political prisoners from the Resistance. Most were sent to camps in Nazi Germany ( Auschwitz , Ravensbrück , Mauthausen, etc.) after a stay of a few days to a few months in “Romainville”. Charlotte Delbo paid tribute in her work to the 230 women of the Convoy of24 january( 1943 ), of which she herself was a part as well as the Lilasian Raymonde Salez.
• TDF Tower , built by the architect Claude Vasconi inside the fort of Romainville, visual landmark of the North-East of Paris and the city of Lilas. 124 m high. The dome hoisted at the top of a 92 m high shaft is 43 m in diameter in its widest part. Construction completed in 1987 . Telecommunications tower.
• High school and gymnasium built by the internationally renowned architect Roger Taillibert ( Paul-Robert high school , 1993 and Micheline-Ostermeyer gymnasium , with a curious coffered ceiling for soundproofing, 1996 ).
• Monument in memory of the Armenian genocide , bronze stele visible in the communal cemetery of Lilas , made by David Erevantzi, sculptor born in Armenia . The monument was erected inMay 2000by the city of Lilac to express solidarity with the victims of the first genocide of the xx ^th  century , in 1915 . The two sides of the monument, isolated from one another, symbolize the separate existence of the inhabitants of present-day Armenia and the Armenians of the diaspora, a consequence of the genocide.Some details :On the front, the allegorical figure is that of the mother country, still terrified of the genocide. On the left, the figure with open hands is the Armenian who has not given up. By dint of courage and work, he acquired prosperity (represented by the vegetable garland of vines and pomegranates). In the lower part, two “cross stones” or Khachkars , as we find in Armenia since the High Middle Ages , either in cemeteries or inserted in religious monuments. 
• The Corniche des forts  : this future urban park in the Île-de-France region , included in the 2000-2006 plan contract , provides for the development of an urban park of 64 hectares located in the municipalities of Pantin , Les Lilas , Noisy-le-Sec and mainly from Romainville . Located on old gypsum quarries , the Corniche des forts outdoor and leisure center will offer cultural and sports activities. The creation of a 2.8 km east-west path intended for pedestrians and bicycles will make it possible to enjoy the panorama over Paris and the plain of France., and will become the base’s main promenade. The surroundings of the castle of Romainville will be redeveloped and the madness of Pantin should be rehabilitated. The allotment gardens will be moved. 
• The Museum of vampires and imaginary monsters (14 rue Jules-David), unique in the world.
• The maternity hospital in Les Lilas (12 rue du Coq-Français) whose reconstruction promised in 2013 on the Gütermann site is strongly questioned  by the ARS .