#wallonia

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LIÈGE, BELGIUM

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Rue Sablonnière, Jemappes, Hainaut.

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In the capital of Wallonia (the French speaking southern part of Belgium) you can find this amazing interior in Flemish baroque style of the Saint-Lupus Church (Église Saint-Loup).

It is one of the most important Baroque churches in Belgium and was built by the Jesuits between 1621 and 1645. Initially it was called Saint Ignatius Church (église Saint-Ignace), and served the adjacent Jesuit college. Today, this church is also used for concerts in addition to worship services.

After their arrival in the 17th century, the Jesuits took over a small college which they enlarged. Afterwards they built a church adjacent to this college, which was dedicated to Saint Ignatius, the founder of the Jesuit order. Pieter Huyssens (° Bruges, 1577, † Bruges, 6-6-1637), a Flemish Jesuit, architect and Baroque master, designed this church. Nevertheless, he did not live to see its completion: even at the start of the construction works, there appeared to be insufficient funds for immediate completion. Although the rector of the college regularly called for donations, the activities slowed down: they were forced to be spread over the period from 1621 to 1641. The architect himself died earlier: in 1637. After the completion of the church, it was finally consacrated.

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Chateau de Reinhardstein, Belgium (by Joran Quinten)

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Promenade de la Hoëgne, Belgium - 2022

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Wallonia (2) (3) (4) (5) by Tristan Schmurr

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Fields of Wallonia, Belgium

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Joseph tavern in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium

Belgian vintage postcard

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The famous Flower Staircase in Liège, Wallonia, BELGIUM

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Route Charlemagne, Rosée, Namur.

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A stroll through the old city of Namur, the capital of Wallonia, which is the southern french speaking region of Belgium.

The city is old; inhabited continuously since 2500 BC, a vicus in later roman times it retracted as a small fortified town around the late 3rd century AD, and becoming a market town in the 11th century surrounded by a stone city wall. The city grew steadily and in 1530 a 4th enlarged city fortification had to be constructed. Initially ruled by local lords it got a city council during the 12th century. In the 15th century the city had 8000 inhabitants, significantly less than the populous and prosperous cities in Flanders.

Between 1578 and 1585 it temporaly becomes the capital of the Habsburg rule of the Netherlands after protestant troops took Brussels.

In the 17th and 18th century the city is attacked and bombarded several times by an wide array of battling parties as part of different wars, The French wars, the Spanish Succession War, the Austrian War of Succession. And the fortress above the city housed for almost 2 centuries a garnison of the army of the Dutch Republic.

The city's importance was always it's strategic location. Also during the Industrisl revolution it was in important logistical hub between neighbouring industrial regions.

Just before the First World War initially unofficial and during the War officialised by the oocupying power ( German Empire) , the city became the capital of the French speaking part of Belgium.

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La Roche-en-Ardenne, Belgium (by Sjak)

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Dinant, Belgique