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Top 10 Best Things To Do In Namur, Belgium
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List of Best Things to do in Namur, Belgium.
Felicien Rops Museum (Musee Felicien Rops)
Citadelle (Citadel)
Eglise Saint-Loup
Parc Attractif Reine Fabiola
Tresor d'Hugo d'Oignies
Sensation Voltige
Place d'Armes
Musee Provincial des Arts Anciens du Namurois
Cathedral de St-Aubain (St. Aubain Cathedral)
Computer Museum NAM-IP
Huy, beautiful city in belgium, Meuse, , Mur de Huy, Citadel de Huy, Walloon, La Flèche Wallonne
Woensdag is het tijd voor de Waalse Pijl. La Flèche Wallonne, zoals de koers in het Frans heet, heeft met de Muur van Hoei eHuy (pronounced: [ɥi]; Dutch: Hoei; Walloon: Hu) is a municipality of Belgium. It lies in the country's Walloon Region and Province of Liege. Huy lies along the river Meuse, at the mouth of the small river Hoyoux. It is in the sillon industriel, the former industrial backbone of Wallonia, home to about two-thirds of the Walloon population. The Huy municipality includes the sub-municipalities of Ben-Ahin, Neuville-sous-Huy, and Tihange.,2016: Alejandro Valverde (Spa)
2015: Alejandro Valverde (Spa)
2014: Alejandro Valverde (Spa)
2013: Daniel Moreno (Spa)
2012: Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa)
2011: Philippe Gilbert (Bel)
2010: Cadel Evans (Aus)
2009: Davide Rebellin (Ita)
2008: Kim Kirchen (Lux)
2007: Davide Rebellin (Ita)
Cycling[edit]
Huy is home to the finish of the La Flèche Wallonne (English: Walloon Arrow; Dutch: Waalse Pijl), an important 1-day cycling race held midweek in mid-April. The race traverses, and finishes, at the summit of the Mur de Huy (English: Wall of Huy), a climb of about 1 kilometer with an average gradient of 10%, with sections of 20%. Huy has also been used in the Tour de France four times: 1995, 2001, 2006 and 2015.
In popular culture[edit]
Huy was used as the location for the 2014 BBC television drama series The Missing.
Famous persons[edit]
Renier de Huy, metalworker (first half of the 12th century)
Joseph Lebeau, politician (1794-1865)
Anne-Marie Lizin, politician (born in 1949)
André Malherbe, three-time motocross world champion
Meingold of Huy, Roman Catholic saint (died 892)
John Joseph Merlin, inventor of the roller skate (September 17, 1735 in Huy - May 4, 1803 in London)
Peter the Hermit, instigator of the First Crusade (1050 in Amiens - 1115 in Huy)
Le Père Pire, recipient of the 1958 Nobel Peace Prize, lived in Huy (February 10, 1910 in Dinant - January 30, 1969)
Alizée Poulicek
Patrick Sarsfield, (1660 – 21 August 1693) 1st Earl of Lucan. Cavalry commander of Jacobite forces at the Siege of Limerick, Ireland, General in French Army following Flight of the Wild Geese is buried here, in the graveyard of St. Martin's Church.
Léon Lhoist, businessman
Huy Trinh, Definer of the Huy Curve, Nutty Movement LegendMeuse. In the latter part of the 17th century, Louis XIV’s wars caused the city to be repeatedly attacked and put to the sword, to the point that the frustrated inhabitants dismantled their own castle, source of their miseries, in 1715.
A new fortress was built by the Dutch in 1818 at the same strategic location above the town. The 19th century was a period of relative prosperity based on the paper and other industries. The decline of heavy industry in the 20th century was felt here, as in other parts of Wallonia. Today, the city has started to prosper again, thanks in part to its tin products and tourist activity.
In 1970 the Tihange Nuclear Power Station was built.
Folklore[edit]
Every seven years, a religious procession takes place in the so-called 'septennial festivities' in commemoration of the end of a drought in 1656. The last one took place on August 15, 2012.
Main sights[edit]
See also: List of protected heritage sites in Huy
The four 'wonders of Huy' are (in Huy dialect):
Li Pontia, the bridge over the River Meuse
Li Rondia, the rose window of the Gothic Notre-Dame collegiate church
Li Bassinia, the 15th-century fountain that stands in the middle of the Grand Place
Li Tchestia or the Citadel of Huy, the 1818 fortress that dominates the city
Top 13 Attractions in Belgium according to Lonely Planet
Top 13 Attractions in Belgium according to Lonely Planet
13. Cartoon Culture
Belgium has a consuming passion for comic strips, which are considered the 'Ninth Art'. Foreigners might know the boy-reporter Tintin whose creater, Hergé, is celebrated at a fine new museum in Louvain La neuve.
12. Art nouveau
Swirls, curlicues and architectural daring: don't leave Brussels without exploring some of its art nouveau marvels. The style was developed with the help of the architects Victor Horta and Henry van de Velde.
11. Flanders Fields
Flanders Fields is a common English name of the World War I battlefields in an area straddling the Belgian provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders. The name Flanders Fields is particularly associated with battles that took place in the Ypres Salient, including the Second Battle of Ypres and the Battle of Passchendaele.
10. Belfries & Begijnhoven
The Belfries of Belgium is a group of historical buildings designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Site, in recognition of an architectural manifestation of emerging civic independence in historic Flanders and neighbouring regions from feudal and religious influences, leading to a degree of local democracy of great significance in the history of humankind.
9. Chocolate
Belgium is famed for its high quality chocolate and over 2,000 chocolatiers, both small and large. Belgium's association with chocolate goes back as far as 1635 when the country was under Spanish occupation. From the early 20th century, the country was able to import large quantities of cocoa from its African colony, the Belgian Congo.
8. Castles
From French-style chateaux to Crusader-era ruins, Belgium is overloaded with spectacular castles. Antwerp and Ghent both retain medieval ones right in their city centres. And Namur, like Huy and Dinant, is dominated by a massive fortress citadel that retained military importance well into the 20th century.
7. Antwerp Art & Fashion
Go-ahead Antwerp is a city that has everything. its skyline is still dominated by one of the lowlands' most magnificent stone steeples and its medieval house-museums are stuffed with works by its most famous 17th-century resident, Pieter Paul rubens. But it's a dynamic place with state-of-the-art museums, vibrant nightlife and a reputation as one of europe's capitals of haute couture.
6. Art Cities
If you love the medieval charm of Bruges but want to be a little more original, a great choice is Gghent. this historic city also has its share of canalside splendour, a great arts scene and a grittier charm that many visitors find refreshing. Or try Mechelen. it's overloaded with splendid churches and the grand central square is graced with a fanciful town-hall complex that's only topped for sheer flamboyance by the statue-festooned equivalent in Leuven, Belgium'''s ancient university city.
5. Carnival Capers
If your neighbours' idea of a good time is to dress up in barrel costumes jingling with little bells, don spooky masks and ostrich feather hats, and then go throwing oranges at passers-by, you might wonder about their sanity. then again you might just be living in Binche. That's the town whose unique mardi gras carnival has long been so indulgent it gave the english language the term 'binge'.
4. Belgian Beer
For a comparatively small country, Belgium produces a very large number of beers in a range of different styles -- in fact, it has more distinct types of beer per capita than anywhere else in the world. In 2011, there were 1,132 different varieties of beer being produced in the country.
3. Flemish Primitives
The whole of western representational art was transformed in the 15th century by a group of Bruges-based painters whose mastery of oil paints allowed them to simulate reality and paint faces that expressed apparently real emotions. Simultaneously, the burgeoning economy of Flanders meant that rich sponsors were prepared to commission secular works.
2. Brussels' Grand Place
The Grand Place is the central square of Brussels. It is surrounded by guildhalls, the city's Town Hall, and the Breadhouse. The square is the most important tourist destination and most memorable landmark in Brussels. It measures 68 by 110 metres (223 by 361 ft), and it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
1. Bruges
Bruges is a picture-postcard-perfect city in Flanders, the northern part of Belgium. Relatively cosmopolitan and bourgeois given its compact size, it is one of the best preserved pre-motorised cities in Europe and offers the kind of charms rarely available other than in Europe.
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Chaque année, la Belgique reçoit environ 6,7 millions de touristes, la plupart venant des pays voisins (France, Allemagne, Pays-Bas et Grande-Bretagne), représentant un chiffre d'affaires total de 10 milliards de dollars (2 % du PIB national).
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Le secteur des attractions touristiques et musées en Belgique est composé de plus de 365 prestataires totalisant environ 20 millions de visiteurs annuels. Le territoire de la Belgique regorge donc d'idées d'excursions : grottes, parcs animaliers, parcs d'attractions, musées, centres d'interprétation,...
Visit Leuven - 6 Things to Do in Leuven, Belgium
What to See & Do in Leuven, Belgium. The University city of Leuven some fun places to visit if you are heading by. The centerpiece is the Town Hall. Also worth visiting are... The Oude Markt for the highest number of bars on one square in Europe, a tour of the Stella Artois Brewery, The M Museum, Hanging out around the university area and more.
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