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NUMBERING SYSTEM OF ARMY SERVICE FORCES MANUALS

The main subject matter of each Army Service Forces Manual is indicated by consecutive numbering within the following categories:

Ml- M99 Basic and Advanced Training Mdo0 - M199 Army Specialized Training Program and Pre- Induction Training M200 -. M299 Personnel and Morale 1300 - B399 Civil Affairs M400 - M499 Supply and Transportation M500 - M599 Fiscal 1600 - M699 Procurement and Production M700 - M799 Administration M800 - M899 Miscellaneous M900 - up Equipment, Materiel, Housing and Construction

HEADQUARTERS, ARMY SERVICE FORCES, Washington, 25, D. C.,

Army Service Forces Manual M 361-17, Civil Affairs Handbook, Belgium:

Cultural Institutions has been prepared under the supervision of the Provost

Marshal General, and is published for the information and guidance of all concerned,

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By command of Lieutenant General SOMERVELL:

W. D. STYER, ^ Major General, General Sta Chief of Staff.

OFFICIAL: J. A. ULIO, Major General, Adjutant General. This study on Cultural Institutions in Belgium was prepared for the

MILITARY GOVERNMENT DIVISION of the OFFICE OF THE PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL

by the

AMERICAN COMMISSION FOR THE PROTECTION AND SALVAGE OF ARTISTIC AND

HISTORIC MONUMENTS IN' WAR AREAS

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Purposes of the Civil Affairs Handbook.

The basic objectives of civil affairs officers are (1) to assist the Commanding General by quickly establishing those orderly conditions which will contribute most effectively to the conduct of military operations, (2) to reduce to a minimum the human suffering and the material damage resulting from disorder and (3) to create the conditions which will make it possible for civilian agencies to function effectively.

The preparation of Civil Affairs Handbooks is a part of the effort to carry out these responsibilities as efficiently and humanely as is possible. The Handbooks do not deal with plans or policies (which will depend upon changing and unpredictable developments). It should be clearly understood that they do not imply any given official program of action. They are rather ready reference source books containing the basic factual information needed for planning and policy making.

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TOPICAL OUTLINE

1. Geographical and Social Background

2. Government and Administration

3. Legal Affairs

4. Government Finance

5. Money and Banking

6. Natural Resources

7. Agriculture

8. Industry and Commerce

9. Labor

10. Public Works and Utilities

11. Transportation Systems

12. Communications

13. Public Health and Sanitation

14. Public Safety

15. Education

16. Public Welfare

17. Cultural Institutions

This study on Cultural Institutions in Belgium was prepared for the MILITARY GOVERNMENT DIVISION of the OFFICE OF THE PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL by the AMERICAN COMMISSION FOR THE PROTECTION AND SALVAGE OF ARTISTIC AND HISTORIC MONUi!ENTS IN WAR AREAS. vi-

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION...... 1

CATEGORIES OF MONUMENTS ...... 1

THE BELGIAN AUTHORITIES ...... 2

ART HISTORY OF BELGIUM...... 2

ARRANGEMENT AND CLASSIFICATION OF LISTS ...... 4

PROVINCES

Antwerp ......

Brabant ...... (West-Vaanderen) Flandre Occidentale (WeOost-Vlaanderen)

Flandre Orientale Oost-Vlaanderen) .

Hainaut ......

Liege ......

Limbourg ......

Luxemburg ......

Namur ......

IMPORTANT DATES IN BELGIUM'S HISTORY ...... 50

BIBLIOGRAPHY ......

INDEX L _ BELGIU

BELGIUM

INTRODUCTION

The Importance of Protecting Monuments

The Belgian nation is divided into racial groups, the Walloons and the Flemings, whose principal difference is that of language (French and Flemish). These two groups, however, are united by many bonds of history, religion, and culture, and not least by the common love of the beauties of their country. The majority of the people are de- vout Catholics, and to them the old'churches and ecclesiastical treasures are more than mere artistic creations; they are objects of veneration and worship. Furthermore, the Belgians are proud of the many great secular monuments, town halls, belfries, guild hall, etc. which still reflect the glory of the old Flemish cities, whose burghers fought heroically for their independence from feudal rulers and formed the most powerful and flourishing city-communities of medieval Europe. The flourishing tourist trade which has centered around these monuments has been an important economic factor in the life of the Belgians and is an added reason for their protection.

Categories of Monuments

Among the monuments and works of cultural importance in Belgium the following groups are outstanding:

i. ARCHITECTURE. The many old churches (10th-18th century), for the most part medieval, are of great significance to the population.. The interior decoration of these churches (stained glass, pulpits, choir-stalls, etc.) often dates from the early 16th century or from the Baroque period, 17th century, and is most elaborate. In a number of churches the precious medieval treasures are still preserved. There are many Abbeys, most of them founded in the Middle Ages or earlier, but now (if they escaped destruction during the French Revolution) very much altered and used for other purposes. These abbeys, as well as the many old Convents, Hospices and Beguinages, bear witness to the long tradition of clerical and religious life in Belgium.

In the secular architecture the Town Halls, Cloth Halls and Belfries are landmarks of the old Flemish city culture. Most of them belong to the late medieval period or the picturesque transitional phase of the early 16th century which is characterized by the Flamboyant style.. Some of the medieval Town Gates are preserved, as relics of the ancient fortifications. The Guild Houses and other old gabled Houses (15th-17th century) abound. Many chateaux, dating from the medieval to the Baroque period, are found all over Belgium, usually outside the cities, at prominent points. They tell of the long reign of feudal families in the history of Belgium up to the period of the French Revolution. The so-called 'Gravensteen', situated in the center of Ghent, is the most powerful Romanesque castle in western Europe.

II. SCULPTURE. Some medieval sculpture has survived on the portals of the churches or in their interiors. The churches also contain a number of interesting tombstones from the late medieval to the Baroque period. There are many 19th century fonuments, erected in public places, in honor of the Belgian monarchs or of great men in Belgian history and culture, and also a great number of War !emorials, especially in those re- gions which suffered severely during the last World War. A group of important early Flemish sculptures is preserved in the Museum of Tournai, and in the Muske Royaux d'Art

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et d''Histoire, Brussels, while the Brussels Museum of Sculpture is richest in modern works of the 19th and 20th centuries.

III. PAINTINGS. The two great periods of Old Flemish painting, the 15th and the 17th centuries, are represented in the Museums as well as in the Churches. The greatest masterpiece of the 15th century, the Altar by the van Eyck Brothers, was in the Church of St. Bavo in Ghent before it was taken by the Nazis. Three of the most monumental altar-paintings by Rubens are owned by the Cathedral of Antwerp. But the Muse- ums, especially those in Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels and Ghent, contain the majority of old Flemish masterpieces. Some of them are in private collections.

IV. DECORATIVE ARTS, such as old tapestries, furniture, etc. are preserved largely in the Museums or public buildings (Town Halls, etc.), and are often of considerable value. Many precious items of medieval goldsmith work, such as reliquaries, ecclesiastical vessels, etc., are preserved in the church treasuries.

V. MATERIAL ON ETHNOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY. This material is largely owned by the Museums.

VI. LIBRARIES. The major ones are public libraries, and many contain valuable manuscripts and rare books. Archives, with information relating to city or county municipal, judicial and ecclesiastical records, are usually housed in Town Hall.

The Belgian Authorities

For official information on any of these monuments or works of cultural value in apply to the Belgium, or for assistance in the matter of their preservation, one may following:

1. Ninistry of Public Instruction and Fine Arts, (Ministere d'Instruction Publique of art and et de Beaux-Arts) Brussels, the official government body dealing with matters culture.

2. Local Auseum Authorities, of which those in Brussels and Antwerp have the largest staff of experts and the best facilities for giving information on works of art in Belgium.

Art History of Belgium

From the Prehistoric and Roman Period no important monuments have survived, but preserved in the much material of these civilizations, excavated on Belgian soil, is Municipal Museums.

a high level. During the Nedieval Period the art and culture of Flanders was on French and German influences are evident, but Flanders repeatedly took a leading part, painting (15th first in civic architecture (13th-14th centuries), later in the art of century.

goldsmith In the Romanesque period (11lth-12th centuries) outstanding ecclesiastical with the important work was produced in the Valley of the Meuse, showing a connection at Vise, German centers of the Rhine region. Examples are: the Shrine of St. Hadelin of Tournai, and the vari- the Shrine of the Virgin by Nicolas de Verdun in the Cathedral In the late 13th ous reliquaries in the Mus6e Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire in Brussels.

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century the monk Hugo d'Oignies did some excellent filigree work (convent of the Soeurs de Notre-Dame at Namur, etc.).

The French Gothic style was adopted by many churches of the 13th-14th century, such as St. Martin at Ypres, St. Gudule, in its older parts, and Notre-Dame-de-la-Chapelle at Brussels, and others. Also the great Cistercian Abbeys of Orval, Villers and Aulnes, now largely in ruins, manifest this influence of the French Gothic architecture.

The Civic Buildings of medieval Flanders are more independent and original than the ecclesiastical architecture. In the 13th and 14th centuries the powerful Guilds of the Flemish cities erected buildings reflecting the pride and the strength of their organ- izations. The Cloth Hall at Ypres, rebuilt after the first World War, and the Halles of Bruges are the greatest in the Middle Ages. The same spirit of power and independence is expressed in the Gothic Town Halls, while the mighty'Belfries are among the most significant landmarks of the old Flemish cities. From the end of the 14th century to the early 16th century the Town Halls show a gradual increase in decoration at the expense of the old structural quality and monumentality, (Bruges, late 14th century, Brussels, early 15th century, Louvain, mid-15th century, Ghent and Oudenaarde, early 16th century). The excessive ornamentation of the latest medieval phase, the so-called 'flamboyant' style, coincided with the beginning of the Renaissance in other parts of Europe.

At the beginning of the 15th century, when Flanders was under the rule of the Dukes of Burgundy, Painting developed to an unprecedented height with the brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck. The greatest work of the van Eyck Brothers is the altar in the Cathedral of Ghent. Up to the early 16th century the influence of the van Eycks remained in the Flemish school, among whom the so-called 'Master of Flemalle', Rogier van der Weyden, Dirk Bouts, Hugo van der Goes, Hans Memling, Gerard David, Hieronymus Bosch, Quentin Matsys, Jan Gossaert and Barend van Orley are outstanding. The two last-mentioned masters did the most to introduce the Renaissance style, but did not completely abandon the native style. A late descendent of early Flemish painting, exceptional for the orig- inality of his striking landscapes and peasant scenes, was Pieter Brueghel the Elder.

The Architecture of the 16th century remained somewhat hybrid in its combination of late Gothic with new Renaissance tendencies. Only in sculpture do we find a few examples. of a thorough adaptation of the Classic taste, especially in the tomb monuments and other works of Jean de Mone (Altar in the church at Hal, tomb of Antoine Lalaing at Hoogstraeten), and of Jean Dubroeucq (sculpture in the church of Ste. Waudru, Mons).

During the Baroque period the great Antwerp painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) became the leading figure in Flemish Art. His decorative and pictorial style was well suited to the adornment of churches and palaces. Churches in Antwerp, Malines and else- where are still filled with the works of Rubens and his followers, among whom van Dyck and Jacques Jordaens are most prominent. Van Dyck's reputation rests chiefly on his portraits. Brouwer and David Teniers were outstanding among the Flemish genre-painters and come closer, in this category, to the more intimate painters of contemporary Holland. Not only the contemporary painters, but also sculptors and architects were inspired by the mighty genius of Rubens. Among the 17th century sculptors Frangois Duquesnoy, Artus Quellin (both Elder and Younger), and the Verbruggens are noteworthy. The many Baroque churches, erected during the period of the Catholic Revival, reflect the Italian Baroque style St. Charles Boromee at Antwerp, the Eglises du Beguinage in Malines and in Brus- sels, Notre Dame in Montaigu, St. Michel in Louvain, etc.

Belgian art of the 18th century and the early 19th century showed little individu-

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ality. The French influence dominated during these periods. In the course of the 19th century some painters stand out, such as Hendrik Leys, H. de Baekelaer, Jan Stobbaerts, and Alfred Stevens. Toward the end of this century the sculptor Constantin Meunier, who had started as a painter, gained an.international reputation by his monumental figures of industrial workers, miners, and farm-laborers, which gave a powerful expression to the rising socialistic feeling of the masses. Among the 20th century painters Eugene Laermans follows a similar trend, while James Ensor excels by a visionary treatment bordering on Modern Expressionism. Among 20th century sculptors George Minne is known by his gothicizing figures, and among the architects with Paul Hankar as a pioneer of the modern movement in Continental Europe, are Henry van de Velde, one of the founders of the "Art Nouveau" movement, Victor Horta, the architect of the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels and the Palais des Beaux Arts in Tournai, and Joseph Van Neck, the architect of the Palais du Centenaire in Brussels.

ARRANGEMENT AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE LIST

The following list of monuments and material of cultural value in Belgium is arranged according to provinces, and within the provinces the cities or towns are arranged alphabetically. The list refers to the state of preservation in 1939.

A classification as to the importance of these items is indicated by the number of stars:

No star means 'fairly important' * " 'important'

** " 'very important' *** " 'of the greatest importance'

Flemish names of localities and of monuments have been added in parentheses where it has seemed advisable.

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Province of Antwerp

AERTSELAER Chateau de Cleydael, moated castle, early c. 9 kms. S. of 14th century; restored 1518, remodelled Antwerp 17th-18th centuries. ANTWERP (ANVERS) CHURCHES *St. Paul, 1533-71, completed 1629; interior restored; Bar- Zwarte Zusterstraat oque furniture; paintings (Teniers, Van Dyck, Rubens, and Veernrkb (Rue ds Jordaens, and others). Soeurs Noires et Marche au Betail) ***CathedraleNotre-Dame, begun 1352; towers, 1352-1449, spire Handschoen Markt 1518; restored 19th and 20th centuries; famous Rubens (Marche aux paintings; sculpture; tombs; organ; carillon, 47 bells, Gants) largely 17th century. *St. Andre, begun 1514; monument to Mary, Queen of Scots; St. Andriesstraat early 19th century pulpit. (Rue St. Andre) *St. Antoine de Padoue; **paintings by Van Dyck and Rubens. Paardenmarkt(Marc aux Chevaux) **St. Jacques, late Gothic; Baroque decorations; tomb of Lange Nieuwstraat Rubens and chapel of Rubens family with Rubens painting; (Longue Rue **Rubens altarpiece; tombs; works of art. Neuve) **St. Charles-Borromee (Jesuit Church); 1615-21; Baroque Place Conscience fa;ade, tower and two side-chapels; rest rebuilt; works of art. **St. Augustin, 1615-28; ***Rubens altarpiece (1628); other Kammenstraat (Rue des paintings (Jordaens, Van Dyck, etc.). Peignes) and Everdy- straat (Rue Everdy) HOUSES **Survivals of old Antwerp in area between the Town Hall (Rue du Serment), Quai Jordaens, Marche au Betail (Veemarkt), Place and Rue St. Paul, Longue Rue Porte aux Vaches (Koepoortstraat), and Grand'Place (Groote Markt) with **Guild houses, 16th-17th centuries: 5 (Hall of the Coopers and In den Engel, 1579); 7 (Hall of the Archers, 1516, rebuilt 1580); 11 (Mercer's Hall, Gothic gable); 38 and 40 (House of the Clothiers and Hall of Carpenters, both.15th century, rebuilt in 16th and 17th). *Maison de Christophe Plantin; 16th century; Renaissance Vrijdagmart (Marche du Vendredi) style; now museum. 50 Meir *Royal Palace, 1745; French Rococo style. Rubensstraat *Maison de Rubens (Rubens' House); Baroque garden portico an d summer-house remain of original house, reconstructed. Maison de Nicolas Rockox (17th century burgomaster). 10? Keizerstraat(Rue de 1'Empereur) MONUMENTS Schelde River The Steen, originally part of castle of Antwerp, recon- Between structed 1521, restored 1889; now Musee d'Antiquites. and Van Dyck Wharf 20 Brouwersstraat Maison Hydraulic (Waterhuis), also called Maison des Brasseurs (Brouwershuis); 16th century interior with (Rue des staircase and original furniture, leather hangings; Brasseurs) pumps installed 1553 to provide water for breweries. Vleeschhouwersstraat *Vieille Boucherie (Vleeschhuis), meat-market, 1501-3, des Bouchers) restored; now museum. (Rue

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ANTWERP (Cont'd) - MONUMENTS **H6tel de Ville (Stadhuis), 1561-65 probably by Cornelis Groote Markt Floris de Vriendt, rebuilt 1581; Renaissance mantelpiece, (Grand'Place) 19th century frescoes by Henri Leys; contains Archives. Brabo Fountain, 1887, by Jef Lambeaux. Groote Markt (Grand'Place) *Metsys Well, late 15th century; Gothic wrought-iron canopy; Handschoen Markt attributed to Quentin Metsys. EMarct a Gants) *La Bourse (Handelsbeurs); Stock Exchange, 1868-72; glass N. Side of the "Meir" ceiling; wrought-iron framework; in N.E. wing is shelt- through Twaalf- ered ***large part of collection Plantin-Moretus (plates MaandenStraat (Rue and engravings). des Douze-Mois ) B6guinage (Begijnhof), 1542-46, recently restored; church 31 Roodestraat with Jordaens painting. (Rue.Rouge)

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Musee d'Antiquites; historical collections. In the Steen, between Schelde River and Van Dyck Wharf Museum "Vleeschhuis" ("Vieille Boucherie"); Flemish ar- Vleeschhouwers traat chaeology, tiles, sculpture, furniture, ethnography, (Rue des Bouchers) arms and armor. *Archives de la Ville, c. 500 documents, 1124-1790; char- In Hotel de Ville, tularies; Council deliberations, 1569-1795; registers, Grand'Place accounts from 14th century, judicial records, guild, (Groote Markt) church archives, 15th-18th centuries, maps, plans. *Museum of Folklore; Flemish folklore; marionettes, reli- 16 Heiliggeeststraat gious images, rare books, etc. (Rue du St. Esprit) **Cabinet des Estampes de la Ville (Municipal Print Heiliggeeststraat Cabinet); rare engravings relating to history of Antwerp. (Rue dc St. Esprit) ***Museum Plantin-Moretus, in original house of C. Plantin, 22 Vrijdag-Markt whose printing office established here 1576; plates and (Marche du engravings; unique museum. (Large part of collection Vendredi) now sheltered in Antwerp Stock Exchange, N.E. wing, Longue Rue Neuve.) *Bibliotheque principale (Stedelijk Hoofdsbibliotheek); Place Leopold de Antwerp Public Library); c. 200,000 volumes. Wael ***Musee Royal des Beaux-Arts; Flemish and Dutch paintings; Place Leopold de modern paintings and sculpture, Belgian School; in Wael garden, sculpture by Rodin, Meunier, etc. (Important large paintings sheltered in Ardennes region, smaller ones in safes of several Antwerp banks). Acad6mie des Beaux-Ards, founded-17th century. Between Rue des Aveugles and Rue Venus ***Mus4e Mayer-Van den Bergh; 13th-15th century illuminated 19 Lange Gasthuis- mss.; furniture, sculpture, Greek vases, tapestries, straat (Longue paintings (**P. Bruegel the Elder, **Metsys, Clouet, etc.). Rue de 1'Hopital) Fondation Terninck; a few paintings (Jordaens, Van Dyck). 22 Terninckstraat Musee de la Marine; *ship-models (15th century Flemish 16 Coquilhatstraat warship, Chinese boats); paintings, engravings, photographs. Botanic Garden; botanical museum, hothouses. Leopoldstraat

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ANTWERP (Cont'd) - CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS Archives de la Cathedrale; archives of the Bishop after 21 Groenplaats 1808, the Chapter, and Office of the Archpriest; wills (Place Verte) and other documents. Museum "De gulden Spoor" (l'Epron d'Ore); Frans Claes 12 Rue St. Vincent collection of decorative arts (weapons, equipment and souvenirs of corporations of archers and crossbowmen). *Archives de l'Etat; archives of religious institutions 5 Door Verstraete- and corporations, 13th-18th centuries; of territorial plaats Place Dcor authorities and communes; notarial and family archives, Verstraete), 15th-19th centuries. Zurenborg *Archives Provinciales; records of provincial authorities 3 Geefstraat (Rue from c. 1793. Geefs) Private collections: Walter Vaes, 17 Rue des Orfbvres; *Francis Franck, 43 Rue Everdy; Louis Jacobs-Havenith, 24 Rue Van Bree; *Joseph de Lange, 10 Avenue Britannique (now sheltered in Banks "Credit Colonial et Commercial," 115 Avenue de France, and Banq.ue de Bruxelles, 20 Longue Rue de l'Hopital); *Mrs. Edouard Pecher-Speth, 2 Longue Rue d'Argile; Maurice Speth, 6 Rue Mertens et Torfs; Max Gevers, 34 Rue Peter Benoit; *Camille Jussiant, 28 Avenue Arthur Goemaere; *Mr. Denis, Hotel Criterium, 25 Avenue de Keyser; *Enrique Mistler, 235 Rue Lamoriniere; Mme. G. Born, 36 Van Schoonbeke; R. Werner, 148 Chaussee de Malires.

PERSONNEL J. Denuce, Archi-vist, Archives de la Ville. Victor De Meyers, Curator, Museum of Folklore. Ary J. J. Delen, Curator, Cabinet des Estampes de la Ville. Mr. Bouchery, Jr., Curator, Museum Plantin-Moretus. Arthur Cornette, Director, Musee Royal des Beaux-Arts. J. Ernalsteen, Archivist, Archives, de la Cathedrale, 21 Place Verte (Groenplaats), and Archives Provinciales, 3 Rue Geefs. A. Gielens, Curator, Archives de l'Etat, 5 Place Door Verstraete, Zurenborg. BRECHT Church. 22 kms. N.E. of Antwerp Maison Communale (local history museum). BROECHEM *Chateau de Bossenstein (also called Halmale 6 kms. N.N.E. Hof, or Allmanshof), enlarged 1660; 14th of Lierre century wing (restored); 16th century keep. CAPPELLEN Private Collections; M. Robert Fester; 10 kms. N. of Heidestraat; *engravings by James Ensor; Antwerp .*M. Jean F. Speth; Iris Hof and *M. Max Osterrieth-Speth; Heide Hof; *Belgian art' including paintings by de Braekeleer, Ensor, Meunier, Evenepoel, Xavier Mellery, and sculpture by Wynounts. GHEEL (GEEL) *Eglise Ste-Dymphne, 1449-80, tower 1542-51, 11 kms. E. of 14th century carved stone retable; *carved Herenthals and painted retable with scenes from the Passion of Christ, late 15th century Ant- werp School; reliquary in shrine of Ste-

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GHEEL (GEEL) Dymphne; **Tomb of Jean III de Merodej (Cont=d) Renaissance; *painted wood retable with legend of Ste-Dymphne. Eglise St-Amand, 1490-1532; 15th century Groote Markt towers; late 17th century carved choir- stalls and' confessionals; high altar by T. Verhaeghen, 1748. HERENTHALS *Eglise Ste-Waudru, 15th century; transepts 35 kms. W. of and tower, mid-14th century; stained Antwerp glass, 1558; **carved wood altar, by Borremans, early 16th century; *fonts, 11th-12th centuries; stalls, 1665. Hotel de Ville, 14th century; octagonal tower, 1534 with chimes; Musee, with sculpture by C. A. Fraiken, 1817-93. Beguinage, founded.13th century, destroyed 1578, restored end of 16th century; Church, 1614; candlestick, reliquary, carved wood pulpit and stalls, *18th century missels. HOOGSTRAETEN *Church of Ste-Catherine, 16th century brick 38 kms. N.E. of building,. flamboyant Gothic; *Tomb of Antwerp Antoine de Lalainge and Isabeau de Culem- bourg 1527-1529; early Gothic 15th-16th century *stalls with carved misericordes; *stained glass windows, 16th century; wooden screen 1546; pulpit by Verhaegen, 1735; paintings, embroideries, tapestries. Chateau, 16th century brick. Behind the cemetery of the eglise Ste-Catherine Hotel de Ville, 16th century,' brick. To the left of-t.le '6gLise St-Catherine LIERRE **Eglise St. Gommaire, 1425-1515; damaged 15 kms. S.E. of during World War I; tower, 1377, wit Antwerp carillon of 47 bells;**rood screen (1536-40); *stained glass (damaged in 1914); *gaint- ings and sculpture including 16th. entury triptych, and paintings by de Vos, and Rubens; Treasury with 16th-17th century vestments. **Beguinage including houses of all periods from the Renaissance to the 19th century; Church, 1664-77. Town Hall, 1740, with *inside staircase; Groote Markt *adjacent Belfry, 1369. Post Office, c. 1400; former mansion of the Groote Markt Colibrants. Old Houses, 17th century. Groote Markt Eikelpoort, 1375, or Gerangenen Poort; old Eikelstraat gateway of the mediaeval fortifications, now a jail. The "Spui", 1518, remains of 2nd ramparts. Near Lisppoort

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LIERRE (Cont'd) The "Zimmertoren" or "St. Corneliustoren", Wilsonplein old tower bearing astronomical *clock by L. Zimmer (1930); astronomical laboratory. Eglise de l'Ermitage, 1413-1419; wrought 15 kms. S.E. of iron tree representing scene from the Antwerp life of St. Gommaire. Musde Wuyts van Campen; two paintings by 12 Florent van Pieter Brueghel the Younger, signed and Cauwenbergstraat dated, "Flemish Proverbs" and "St. John the Baptist Preaching"; collection of postage stamps. Archives de la Ville (City Archives); In the Hotel de municipal records from the 12th century. Ville MALINES (MECHELEN) CHURCHES *Eglise du Grand Beguinage 1629-47 by Franquart; facade; Moreelstraat 17th century sculpture and painting; *vestments. "St. Catherine, 1336-42; carved wood pulpit, Adoration of St Cathelynestraat Magi 1615; sculpture by Fayd'herbe. St. Jean; 15th century Gothic with Baroque vaulting (1722); St. Jansstraat **triptych by Rubens 1617-19; 17th and 18th century painting and sculpture. **Cathedrale St. Rombaut, 13th, 14th, 16th centuries damaged Groote Markt 1914; *west tower, 1452, with **16th-17th century carillon; *Crucifixion by Van Dyck; *tomb of Cardinal Mercier; Archives du Chapitre. St. Pierre.et St. Paul; 1677;. paintings, pulpit by H. Vee Markt Verbruggen. Notre-Dame-au-dela-de-la-Dyle, 15th-17th century; **Mira- Onze Lieve culous Draught of Fishes by Rubens, 1618. Vrouwstraat *Notre-Dame-du-Val-des-Lis, 1662. Bruel *Notre-Dame d'Hanswijck, 1663-78; venerated early statue of Onze Lieve Vrouw van Virgin; pulpit, 18th century by Verhaegen; confessionals. Hanswijckstraat

HOUSES Beguinage, group of old houses. Zaligheidstraat Hotel de Busleyden (now Mont-de-Piete), c. 1507, damaged; 67 Merodestraat 16th century frescoes. *Old Houses; 16th-18th century gabled houses. Groote Markt Old Houses: Zoutwerf, 16th century houses, No. 5, (House of the Salmon, 1530-34, restored), Nos. 7 and 8, timber houses, No. 17, (Lepelaer, 1519); Haverwerf, (House of Eden, House of the Devils, House of St. Joseph 1669); Koornmarkt, No. 8, 16th century; Onze Lieve Vrouwstraat, No. 64, 17th century. MONUMENTS Off Stassartstraat Refuge de St. Trond, 16th century; contains Archives of the Archbishopri'c. Groote Markt *Post Office, formerly TownHall, early 14th century, rebuilt 1715. *Maison Echevinale (Schepenhuis), also called Vieux Palais, 1 Steenweg 1374; sculpture 1649; contains *municipal library and *Municipal Archives; "Op-Signorken", sculpture, 1649.

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MALINES (MECHELEN)(Cont'd) - MONUMENTS **Halle aux Draps and Town Hall, 1320; restored 1342; addi- Groote Markt tions in 16th century, reconstructed 1902; contains Musee Communal. Theatre, fapade 1480, restored 1893. 3 Keizerstraat **Palais de Justice (Gerechtshof), 1507; *facade, 1517; re- Keizerstraat stored 1878-86. Grand Pont, 15th century restored 1594; remains of watch Between the Zoutwerf towers at either end. and Haverwerf

Porte de Bruxelles, (Overste Poort); rebuilt 17th century, Facing the remains of old city gates. Hoogstraat

CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS *Archives de l'Archeveche; records of suppressed monasteries, In the Refuge du of the Archbishops of Malines, of the Bishops of Antwerp St. Trond 1559-1802; private archives. *Archives du Chapitre; registers, accounts and other records In Cathedrale de of the Chapter 1580-1802. St. Rombaut **Archives Communales; c. 1,800 documents on parchment, 13th- 1 Steenweg 18th century city records; 14th-18th century archives of guilds; archives of churches and convents 1540-1793; c. 10,000 registers and 300,000 documents. Musee Communal; paintings and works of art. In Halle aux Draps Diocesan Museum, 15th century; Collection of religious Deckerstraat archeology, paintings, furniture, *jewelry, *room of Cardinal Mercier. Offices of the "Commission de l'Assistance Publique", In former Refuge- triptych of Martin de Vos (1531-1603) and 16th century du-Vol-des-Lis sculpture of Malines school. Bruel

PERSONNEL Chanoine J. Laenen, Archivist, Archives de 1'Archeveche. Chanoine E. Steenackers, Archivist, Archives du Chapitre. R. Van Aerde, Archivist, Archives Communales. Abbe Tambuyser, Conservateur, Diocesan Museum, Rue de Decker. POSTEL *Abbaye de Postel: church, 13th century Ro- 15 kms. E. of manesque basilica; 17th century choir Turnhout stalls; refectory; abbott's house; guest- house, 18th century. RYMENAM Church, 14th century; Gothic vaults and aisles; 8 kms. E.S.E. of tower destroyed 1914, and later restored. Malines

ST. AMAND-LEZ- Tomb of the poet, Emil Verhaeren (1855-1916), 18 kms. W. of PUERS by van der Swaelmen. Malines TONGERLOO Abbey, founded 12th century; extensive 9 kms. S.E. of buildings dating mostly from 16th and 18th Herenthais centuries; partly destroyed by fire, 1929. TURNHOUT *Eglise St. Pierre, 1484; red brick; high 17 kms. from altar, 1780; carillon with 41 bells; Herenthals 17.th-18th century sculpture. B4guinage, 16th century,. and Baroque church, 1665. Musee Taxandria; local antiquities and indus- Rue Mermans trial products; historical collections; library.

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TURNHOUT (Cont'd) Palais de Justice, 15th century, restored 1910-21; brick, former castle of the Dukes of Brabant. Archives de la Ville (City Archives); rec- In the Hstel de ords of city authorities, courts, guilds; Ville documents o±± parchment concerning religious corporations of the city. VORSSELAER Chateau, Gothic fortified castle. 5 kms. N.W. of Herenthals WESTERLOO Chateau de Merode-Westerloo; ***triptych by 12 kms. S.E. of Master of Flmalle, "The Annunciation - Herenthals M rode".

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AERSCHOT *Eglise Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs; Gothic; 27 kms. W. of (Aarschot). 14th and 15th centuries; *early 16th cen- Diest tury flamboyant choir screen; *late 15th century stalls; paintings. ALSEMBERG *Church, 15th-16th centuries, restored 19th 12 kms. S. of century; 12th century font, screen 1770, Brussels sculpture. ASSCHE Church, 14th-15th centuries, in part 12 kms. N.W. of Romanesque. Brussels AVERBODE *Church of Abbey, begun 1664; 18th century. c. 3 kms. N. of (near Sichem) woodwork in sacristy; *furniture, stalls, Sichem 1672, organ, high altar 1758; paintings by P.J. Verhagen. *Abbey,Premonstratensian founded 12th century; porch 1315, restored 1910; Abbott's palace, begun 1713; guest house 17th century; conventual buildings, chiefly 18th century; in conventual building *works of art and *valuable library, (recently destroyed by fire). BEERSEL Feudal castle, 13th century. 8 kms. S.W. of Brussels BERTHEM *Church, c. 1000; Romanesque basilican church. 5 kms. W.S.W. of Louvain. BODEGHEM- Church, 16th century. 9 kms.W.of Brussels ST. MARTIN BRAINE-LE- CHATEAU Church of St. Remi, modern; tomb and statue 6 kms. S. of Hal of Maximilian de Hornes, mid-16th century. Chateau of counts of Horn, rebuilt 17th century. Pillory 1521; Gothic. BRUSSELS CHURCHES *St. Denis, nave and choir c.1250; Romanesque oratory; 13th Place St. Denis, century sculptures; grave-slab of St. Alena, 11th century. Forest (a borough of Brussels) *Notre-Dame aux Riches-Claires, 17th century, one of famous Rue des Riches- Baroque churches of region; furnishings; sculptures, Claires and Rue including wooden statue of Virgin, c.1585. de la Grande Ile *Notre-Dame du Bon Secours, 1664-94; Baroque style, Brabant Rue Marche au region; valuable inside decoration; furnishings; confes- Charbon sionals, 18th century; sculptures, including *Notre-Dame au Rouge, late 15th century. ***Notre-Dame de Laeken, 1854, by Poelaert; *crypt of the Kings Parvis Notre Dame of Belgium; behind, in cemetery, *choir of old church, .(end of Avenue 13th century, important early Gothic example; also numer- de la Reine) ous tombs of famous people, including Marie Malibran. Notre-Dame du Finistere, 1713-30; transitional period be- Rue Neuve tween Baroque and neo-classic style; important church furnishings.

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BRUSSELS (Cont'd) - CHURCHES *St. Jean-Baptiste au Beguinage, 1657-76; one of outstanding Place du Baroque churches in Belgium; high altar, 1733; paintings Beguinage by well-known followers of Rubens, including De Craeyer; remarkable pulpit, 1757. *St. Nicolas, dating from 14th and 15th centuries, almost Rue de Tabora completely rebuilt after 1695; important church furnishings; including laces; wrought-iron railing from Ninove abbey; paintings, *Chapelle de la Madeleine, 15th century, reconstructed in Rue de la 1696, after bombardment; graceful tower. Madeleine *Chapelle St. Georges, 15th-16th centuries; a relic of the Montagne de la Cour Hotel de Nassau; Gothic windows. **Notre-Dame de la Chapelle, Romanesque parts (12th century), Place de la early Gothic choir, transept and tower (c.1210), other Chapelle parts of 15th and 16th centuries; one of most important and oldest churches in Belgium; *tombs of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and of Francois Anneessens (1660-1710); marble eagle, 1762; sculptures, 17th century; pictures. **Notre-Dame des Victoires au Sablon; choir completed in 1435; Rue de la Regence outstanding monument of late Gothic style in Belgium; historic chapels, 17th century, one by Luc Fayd'Herbe; statues by J. Duquesnoy the Younger; tomb of J.B. Rousseau (1741). Sts. Jean-et-Etienne aux Minimes, transitional style between Rue des Minimes Italo-Flemish Renaissance and neo-classic style of the 18th century. Eglise de la Trinite, modern; Baroque facade by Jacques Rue du Bailli Francquart (1583-1652). ***Collegiate church of SS.'Michel et Gudule; 13th, 15th cen- Rue du Bailli turies; *towers; additions 17th century; *stained glass windows, 16th century, by M. Coxie, B. Van Orley and others; many tombs and funeral monuments; *railings 18th century; sculptures by J. Duquesnoy the Younger, Arnold Quellin the Elder; paintings, furniture, church furnishings, pulpit by H.F. Verbruggen (1699), etc. St. Jacques-Sur-Coudenberg, 1776-85, by L.J. Montoyer; Place Royale entablature by Guimard; inside sculptures by Godecharle, L. Delvaux (1746). Notre Dame de la Cambre; 14th-15th century; abbey of 17th- Between Avenue Emile 18th century, recently reshaped inside; cloister much Demot and ponds damaged by Germans in 1914-18; completely rebuilt since of Ixelles then. **Collegiate church of SS. Pierre et Guidon, late Gothic Place de la structure, by Jan van Ruysbroeck and others; rebuilt in Vaillance, Ander- 1470; chapel of St. Guidon, 1517; *Romanesque crypt, lecht, (a borough 11th century; venerated tombstone, probably of St. Guidon, of Brussels) and other tombs of 11th century; *frescoes, 15th and 16th centuries. **St. Adrien, containing *2 retables of carved wood, early Near Boulevard 16th century, school of Brabant. Adolphe Buyl

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BRUSSELS (Cont'd) PALACES AND HOUSES Le Cheval Marin, built in 1680, rebuilt late 19th century; Corner of Vieux near-by, *the oldest dated house (1567) of city, large Mache aux Pores and portions in original state. Quai aux Briques Old blind alleys, including Impasse de la Rue de la Between Rue Vanden Cigogne, Impasse de la Perle d'Amour, etc., with archi- Branden and Rue tectural remnants dating from the 17th century. Rampart des Moines Maison de La Bellone, Baroque style (1697); other old Rue de Flandre gabled houses in same street (Nos. 3, 7, 8,10 to 20, 22, 24, 37; No. 46, gateway, classic style, Old gabled houses around Church Ste. Catherine (No. 48, Place Sainte Cather- Quai aux Briques). ine, Quai aux Barques and Quai aux Briques Old gabled houses and part of city wall, remnants -of 13th Rue Sainte century ramparts; Nos. 8, 10, 26, 28, 30, 48, 52, gables and Catherine doors, 16th-17th centuries.

Old gabled houses; series of gables and facades, 17th Rue Marche aux Herbes, century. Petite Rie des Bouders, le de la Fourche Old houses and fountain; houses of 17th and 18th centuries; Rtm Marche au Charbon "Le Cracheur", one of oldest public fountains of region. aid Re des Pierres

House of Bruegel the Older and of David Teniers III; gable, 132 Rue Haut (cor- 17th century; door Louis XVI. ner Rue de la Porte Rouge) Au Roy d'Espagne; double-gabled house, 1610. Corner Petit Sablon and Rue aux Lanes **Chateau Royal de Laeken, 1782-84, by Montoyer and Payen; Laeken (a borough partly reconstructed, after 1890; enlarged 1902; one of of Brussels) residences of royal family; King Leo-pold III prisoner of war here. *Duke d'Ursel's Mansion; 18th century; sculptures, tapes- 28 Rue Marche au tries, furniture, paintings, works of art. Bois (corner Rue de Loxum) *Ravenstein Mansion; 15th-16th century; unique private man- Rue Ravenstein sion of Burgundian period; courtyard; headquarters of various learned societies. *Errera's mansion; c. 1779; by Guimard for Grimberghe Abbey; 14 Rue Royale original wainscot; entire furnishing, French 18th century style; tapestries, works of art, etc. **Palais du Roi; original palaces of the 18th century in- Place des Palais cluded later in one construction, enlarged and altered 1904; collections of ancient and modern art.

MONUMENTS *Porte de Hal, remnant of 14th century town wall, complete- Porte de Hal ly transformed in 19th century. *Tour Noire, relic of 13th century ramparts. Off Place Sainte Catherine

Place des Martyrs; architectural ensemble created in 1775 Place des Martyrs by Fisco; classic style; annual national pilgrimage to heroes of Belgian Independence, 1830, buried under central monument.

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BRUSSELS (Cont'd) - MONUMENTS Galeries Saint-Hubert; glass arcade, 1847, by J. B. Galeries Saint- Cluysenaer; one of earliest structures of this type. Hubert ***Grand Place (Market Place); unique, homogeneous ensemble Grand Place of Guild Houses of Baroque Flemish architecture (17th- 18th centuries); has retained its monumental character of the last centuries and has witnessed many historic events from the Middle Ages on.

***Hotel de Ville; i402-1454; tower, 1449-54; additions, Grand Place 1705-i7; a masterpiece of medieval civil architecture;

contains furniture; paintings; sculpture; tapestries, etc.; records of the city. *Maison du Roi; unusually well reconstructed in late Gothic Grand Place style (1873-85); contains municipal museum of archeology. City wall and tower, 13th century; section of city walls, Rue de Villiers and adjacent to old garden of Archers Guild of St. George. Rue des Alexiens City wall, 13th century; fine specimen of a parapet-wall. Rue de Ruysbroeck Maison du Peuple, 1896-99, by Victor Horta; significant in Rue Joseph Stevens development of modern architecture; headquarters of Belgian Labor Party. Tour Anneessens, well preserved structure of 13th century. 22 Rue de Rollebeek **Archives Generales du Royaume; former Gothic palace, 15th Rue du Musie century; reconstructed 1756, except *chapel and inside court, surrounded by Archives. **Palais de Justice, 1866-83 by J. Poelaert; remarkable 19th Place Poelaert century architecture; dome; *bronze doors; seat of Su- preme Court of Belgium. Colonne du Congres; 1850-59, by J. Poelaert; erected in Place du Congres commemoration of Congress of 1830, symbol of National Independence and Four Freedoms of the Belgian Charter; tomb of Belgium's Unknown Warrior. First city wall and tower; 13th century; a section of the 14 Rue de la curtain wall; located in Dean's garden of collegiate Banque church of Ste. Gudule. *Ministeres, rebuilt 1834; contains Interior and National Rue de la Loi Defense Departments. *Palais de la Nation (Parliament); 1779-83; facade by Rue de la Loi Guimard; partly rebuilt in 1884-87. *Ministeres, 18th century; Departments of Justice and Finance. Rue de la Loi *Parc 4e Bruxelles, laid out in its present form by Guimard Place des Palais, in 1776-80; decorative sculptures of 18th century; sur- Rue Royle. Rue de rounded by 18th century mansions, homogeneous architec- Louvain, Boulevard tural ensemble. du Regent *Palais des Beaux Arts, 1921-28, by Victor Horta; one of 10 Rue Royale and important art centers in western Europe. Rue Ravenstein *Place Royale, designed by Guimard in 1774; neo-classical Place Royale style; series of seignorial mansions and Louis XVI structures. Palais des Academies, beginning 19th century, completed by Rue Ducale T. F. Suys; neo-classical style. Parc du Cinquantenaire, large public gardens with many Rue de la Loi statues -and monuments by outstanding artists of 19th and 20th centuries.

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BRUSSELS (Cont'd) CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS Collection Baron de Decker; sculpture of the Netherlands, Abbey, Forest 15th and 16th centuries. Academie des Beaux-Arts; municipal art library. 144 Rue du Midi Mus~e des Hospices; paintings and sculptures; archives of 298a Rue Haute the "Assistance Publique". *Musee de la Porte de Hal; arms and armor, European 14th to Porte de Hal 19th century; part of the Musees royaux d'Art et d'His- toire collections. Theatre Royal de la Monnaie; 1817-19, rebuilt; important Place de la collections of manuscripts, documents and records on Monnaie theatrical life. **City Archives; records, 15th-18t century; c. 5000 documents Town Hall, Grand' on parchment, 4000 registers, etc.; current archives, etc. Place Maison du Roi; municipal antiquities; rich collection of Grand'Place Brussels ceramics; important carved wood-work; tapestries, paintings etc. ***Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique; buildings include Rue du Musie 15th century remnants; one of two most important public collections of modern art in Belgium; also *Cabinet of Engravings, c. 100,000 items; *drawings. ***Bibliotheque Royale de Belgique; 600,000 vol.; 28,000 mss., Rue du Musle once part of collection of Philip the Good, Duke of Bur- gundy; *collection of Coins and Medals, c. 55,000 specimens. ***General Archives of the Kingdom; documents from 11th century; Rue du Mus~e guild archives; comprehensive collection of records, maps and plans. ***Musee du Conservatoir Royal de Musique; 1876-77, by J. P. 17 Rue de la Re- Cluysenaer; one of richest collections of musical instru- gence (corner ments in the world. Petit Sablon) ***Palais de Justice; important paintings of collections of Place Poelaert Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique sheltered here in 1940. Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 1875-81; rich col- Rue de la Regence lection- paintings including Flemish primitives, pictures Administration, by Rubens, comprehensive other collections; sculpture Rue du Musee) hall; De Grez collection of drawings. Japanese Tower and Chinese Pavilion; administration, Musdes Avenue Jules van Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire; collections of Eastern Asiatic Praet, Laeken Art. **Archives of the Ministry of National Defense; Archives of Rue de la Lei (be- Foreign Affairs and Heraldic Archives; all records of tween Rue Royale these Ministries accumulated since 1830. and Parliament) ***Societe Generale de Belgique; important pictures of the Rue Royale, between State museums of Fine Arts sheltered here. Place Royale and Rue des- Colonies *Palais des.Academies; headquarters of various learned Rue Ducale societies forming the Academie Royale of Belgium; records and archives. ***Banque de Bruxelles; former private mansion, 1774, by Place Royale (cor- Guimard; important pictures of the State Museum, of Fine ner Rue de la Arts sheltered here. Regence) Musee Constantin Meunier; former atelier of this modern master; 59 Rue de l'Abbaye now State Museum; largest ensemble of this artist's works.

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BRUSSELS (Cont'd) - CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS Mus~e Charlier; paintings and sculptures of best Belgian 16 Avenue des Arts artists of 19th century, furniture, objects of art. *Municipal Museum of Fine Arts of Ixelles (a borough of Rue Jean van Volsem Brussels); modern Belgian art, French impressionist period, large collection of posters by Toulose- Lautrec, etc. Abbaye de la Cambre; now Institut Superieur des arts Between Avenue Decoratifs; rich library for arts and crafts. 'EmileDemot and Ponds of Ixelles Mus~e Wiertz; (administratiOn, Museum of Fine Arts, rue du 62 Rue Vauthier Mus4e; works of this artist, housed in his former atelier. *Royal museum of Natural History; collection for study of Parc Leopold extant and extinct Belgian species; *paleontological section. Musee de l'Armee; collection relating to military history Parc du of Belgium since 18th century. Cinquantenaire ***Musees Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire; various important col- Parc du Cinquan- lections: mediaeval tapestries, carved wood-work, Belgian tenaire (main lace, rare glass, ceramics; Egyptian, American, Asiatic, entrance: Avenue Greek, Roman antiquities; *famous mosaic pavement of des Nerviens) Apamee recently discovered; *important library of Egyptology. *Maison d'Erasme and Vieux Beguinage, 1515, almost intact, Rue du Chapitte, but skillfully restored; now contains museum; valuable Anderlecht library with mss. of Erasmus, drawings, portraits, pictures, including one attributed to H. Bosch. *Archives of Great War (1914-18); administration, General 17 Place de la Archives of Kingdom; former private Flemish mansion, Vaillance, with gateway in Louis XV style; records on administration Anderlecht (both German and Belgian) of occupied territory during World War I. *Stoclet Manor; white marble building, 1911, by Joseph 281 Avenue de Hoffmann;. important collection of antiquities, Egyptian, Tervueren Greek, Khmet; Gothic paintings and sculptures, etc. Private collections: *Henri Nicaise, 15 Rue Ernest Allard; Mrs. Maurice Despret, 41 Rue Jean Stas; *Princess Jeanne de Merode-Westerloo, 23 Rue aux Laines; *Paul de Becker- Remy, 17 Rue Ducale; Baron Ed. Joly, 1 Rue de Livourne; *Genral J. Willems, 9 Avenue 'Galilee; Louis Charles Crespin, 31 Rue de l'Artichaut; *Dr. F. Delporte, 1 Place Quetelet; *Mrs. F. Franchomme, 33 Rue Montoyer; *Max Horn, 80 Rue du Commerce; *Mesdach de ter Kiel, 86 Rue d'Arlon; Mrs. Maurice Philippson, 57 Rue d'Arlon; *Georges Theunis, 2 Rue des Deux-Eglises; Mrs. Otto A'Meara, 39 Rue de la Cascade; *Mrs. L. Demeuldre-Coch6 , 10 Avenue des Klauwaerts; Baron Rene Steens, 1 Rue Paul Lauters; Baron Evence Coppee, 33 Avenue des Nations; Mrs. A. Elkon (Former Mrs. Winant), 271 bis, Avenue de Tervueren; *Laurent Meeus, 263 Avenue de Tervueren; *Oppenheim-Errera (sheltered in bank "Reports et Depots," 11 Rue des Colonies; Palais des Beaux-Arts, 10 Rue Royale; Continentale Menkes, 125 Chaussee d'Anvers); *Count- ess A. de Kerchove de Denterghem, 26 Boulevard de Waterloo; *Marquis de Beauffort, 23 Rue Joseph II; *Chaussette- Anthoine, 202 Avenue Louise; Francois Van Haelen, Uccle- Calvoet, suburb of City; Louis Lazard, 12 Avenue Brugmann.

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BRUSSELS (Cont'd) PERSONNEL Pierre Bautier, former Curator of Musees Royaux des.Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 577 Avenue Louise. Paul Bonenfant, Conservateur and Archivist, Musee des Hospices. D. Brouwers, Archivist, General Archives of the Kingdom. Jean Capart, former Director, Musees Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, still Director, Fondation Egyptologique, Miss Marguerite Devigne, Vice-director, Musies Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. Edmond Glesener, former Director General Administration des Beaux-Arts, Ministere de l'Instruction Publique et des Beaux-Arts. J. J. Horslet, Conservateur, Municipal Museum of Fine Arts. M. Arthur Laes, Conservateur, Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. Henri Lavachery, Director, Musbes Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire. L. Leconte, Director, Musee de l'Armee. M. Charles Pergameni, Archivist, City Archives; Conservateur, Maison du Roi. Lucien Solvay, Conservateur, Musde Charlier. Baron Rene Steens, Director, Cercle Artistique et Litteraire, Secretary, L'Oeuvre Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1 Rue Paul Lauters. Victor Tourneur, Director, Bibliothque Royale. Comte Adrien van der Burch, President, Conseil National du Tourisme, Avenue de la Cascade. Daniel van Damme, Conservateur, Mus6e d'Erasme et Vieux Beguinage (Rue du Chapitre Anderlecht). Dr. Leo Van Puyvelde, Director, Mus6es Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. M. van Straelen, Director, Royal Museum of Natural History. Henry van de Velde, Director, Abbaye de la Cambre. General J. Willems, President, Societe des Bibliophiles de Belgique, 9 Avenue Galilee. CORTRIJCK-DUTZEL Church; 15th century carved wood statue 8 kms. N.E. (Kortrijk-Dutsel) of Virgin. Louvain CUMPTICH Church; vaulted choir, parts of transept 4 kms. N.W. and chapel. 12th century. Tirlemont DIEGHEM Church; 15th century; Bell-tower with Re- 8 Kms. N.E. naissance spire. Brussels DIEST *Eglise St. Sulpice, 2nd half of 15th century; after designs by Sulpice Van der Vo&st; 17th century pulpit and Renais- sance style stone-tabernacle;tomb(1618). Eglise Notre-Dame; founded 1253; early Gothic. Altered at various periods. *Beguinage with church. Founded 1252; outstanding beguinage in Belgium; Baroque entrance, 16th-17th centuries; church, second half 14th century; museum of regional folklore in one of houses. Old houses: well preserved. Rue du Plat. Archives de la Ville; documents, charters, In Hctel de Ville archives, from 13th century. (18th century)

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DILBEEK Church, Gothic; *Oak statue of Ste. Alene, 6 kms. W. of c. 1500. Brussels ELEWYT *Steen, Renaissance castle where Rubens 7 kms. N.E. of lived 1635. Vilvorde(15 kms. N.E.ofBrussels) GAESBEEK *Chateau, 13th century, rebuilt 1404, re- 12 kms. S.W. of- modelled several times, restored 1887-98; Brussels contains Museum; paintings by old masters, *Brussels tapestries, 15th-18th centuries, Works of art, furniture, sculpture (Cura- tor M. Georges Lockem). Small Renaissance chapel in park. GLABBEEK- Church of Zuurbempde; *Tabernacle, by 8 kms. N. of ZUURBEMPDE Corneille Floris, c. 1555; Tirlemont GRIMBERGHEN **Eglise St. Servais, Norbertine abbey; ab- 9 kms. N. of batial church rebuilt 17th century; Brussels *Baroque furniture and fittings; funeral monuments, alabaster sculpture, pictures; *Treasury. Chateau, 16th century; towers. Archives de 1'Abbaye des Premontres; docu- In buildings of ments on parchment, chartularies, records Abbey, (18th and manuscripts of the Abbey; collections century) of the church-historian Migne; (Librarian Y. Ramaekers). GROENENDAEL *Arboretum of Groenendael; experimental In the S.W. part forestry reserve, with a Museum of For- of the Forest estry; near by former Augustinian abbey, of Soignes 18th century, now the Chateau de Groenendael Restaurant. HAEKENDOVER *Eglise St. Sauveur, 13th century; choir, 4 kms. S.E. of Gothic; *wooden reredos, c. 1400, re- Tirlemont cently restored. HAL **Eglise Notre Dame, former St. Martin, 1341- 1467; 14th century tower and W. door sculptures; *sculptured group on E. porch tympanum; *sculptures in choir **Renais- sance altar by Jehan Mane, 1533; 13th century Virgin, venerated; remains of murals; *Treasury. *Hjtel de Ville, 1616, brick and stone. Grand'Place Chapelle Ste. Catherine, 15th century. Outside city walls HERENT *Church of Abbey of Vlierbeek, 1776-83; 3-1/2 kms. N.W. *13th century tower. of Louvain HOEYLAERT **Chateau d'Argenteuil; part of collections c. 12 kms. S.E. of Brussels Fine Art Museum stored here of Brussels for duration. JODOIGNE Church, Romanesque and Gothic. 10 kms. S.W. of Tirlemont LEAU *Eglise St. Leonard, 13th-14th centuries; 12 kms. N.E. of (Zoutleeuw) Gothic **Tabernacle of St. Sacrement, Tirlemont 1551, by Corneille Floris; **Easter candelabrum, 1483; *carved retables, paintings 15th-16th centuries; *brass

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LEAU (Cont'd) works; collection of embroidered liturgic cloths and *Treasury. Town Hall, 1538, Renaissance. *Police Station; (former Cloth Hall), 14th century. LEEFDAEL Church; *"Conversion of St. Hubert" by 8 kms. S.W. of Gaspard de Craver, 1662. Louvain LOMBEEK- *Egli.se Notre Dame, Gothic; **carved wood 13 kms. N.E. of NOTRE DAME reredos, "Life of the Virgin" early 16th Hal century. LOUVAIN (LEUVEN)

CHURCHES **Eglise et Abbaye Ste. Gertrude; church begun 1252, princi- Rue de Malines pally 15th century; choir 16th century; **52 stalls; Abbey of Ste. Gertrude with crypt and Gothic cloisters. St. Jacques, 15th-16th centuries with Romanesque tower; Rue de Bruxelles choir added 1785; *brass balustrade on tabernacle; 14th- 15th century vestments and reliquaries. Notre-Dame des Dominicains, 13th century; Baroque furniture Rue des and fittings. Dominicains **St. Pierre, 15th-16th centuries, damaged 1914; *rood screen, Grand Place 1490; **stone tabernacle (1450), ***Last Supper and *Mar- tydom of St. Erasmus by Dirk Bouts, *statue of Virgin and Child, 1441. **St. Michel, 1650-71. Rue de Namur St. Quentin, 1450; paintings of Rubens School. Rue de Namur

PALACE **Chateau d'Heverl6, 16th century; now part of University. Avenue du Chateau S.W. of city MONUMENTS *Hopital Civil; to East, Gothic chapel, Romanesque portal and Grand Place 18th century buildings. ***Hotel de Ville, 1448-63, restored; council chamber with 15th Grand Place century ceiling and chimney piece; cbntains Archives de la Ville. *University; reproduction of original Cloth Hall built 1317, Rue de Namur destroyed 1914. Tower, remains of town walls. Parc St. Donat **Abbaye de Parc, 16th-18th centuries; church 18th century; S.E. of Porte du "Porte aux Lions", 1724 with staircase; Library contains Parc. Archives de l'Abbaye du Parc.

CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS Muse Communal van der Kelen-Mertens; 15th-17th centuries In former College Flemish painting, also modern painting and sculpture. de Savoi, 12 Rue de Savoi *Archives de la Ville, 1039 charters, administrative, In Hotel de Ville judicial and guild records 14th-18th centuries. ***Bibliotheque de 1'Universite; 700,000 volumes and manu- In new University scripts; (reported destroyed). Library, 1928, (carillon with 48 bells) Place du Peuple.

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LOUVAIN (Cont'd) - CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS Mus~e Speelberch de Lovenjoul; collection of Chinese 40 Rue de Namur porcelains, furniture and pictures. Couvent des Soeurs Noirs; collection of *sculpture from Rue des Moutons Romanesque period to 16th century. Archives de l'Universite. Presumably in the University Museum of Natural History. 95 Rue de Namur *Archives de l'Abbaye du Parc de l'Ordre des Premontres; In Abbaye du Parc 3,000 charters 12th-18th centuries, other records 13th- 18th centuries. Collection of Chanoine Thiery; Gothic and Renaissance Rue de Tirlemont sculpture and other art objects.

PERSONNEL J. Wils, Archivist, Archives de l'Universite. A. Versteylen, Archivist-Librarian, Archives de l'Abbaye du Parc. MONTAIGU *Eglise Notre-Dame, 1609-27; Baroque, by 5 kms. W. of Diest (SCHERPENHEUVEL) Wenceslas Coebergher; paintings; marble relief; *rich treasury. NIVELLES **Eglise Ste. Gertrude, 1046; triple-aisled, *crypt, .*two sculptured Romanesque portals; interior remodelled 18th century; *cloister; **reliquary of Ste. Gertrude, *treasury, sculpture, paintings; church damaged and cloister nearly destroyed in present war. Archaeological Museum; terra-cottas, In former Chapter Brussels tapestry, stalls, furniture, house, Place brass-work. St. Paul Old Houses: monastic dwellings; former pri- Grand'Place vate houses of canons and canonesses. Perron; 1523, fountain. ORP-LE-GRAND Church, partly 8th and 9th centuries. 9 kms.E. of Jodoigne PERCK Church; painting by Teniers; tombs of D. 5 kms. E. of Teniers and his wife. Vilvorde Chateau des Trois Tours (Dry Toren); now a farm; David Teniers the younger died here in 1685. RIXENSART *Chateau de Merode, 1631-32; collection of 20 kms. S.E. of arms, armor; Gothic paintings; anonymous Brussels *"Virgin with a pink". ROTSELAER Chateau de Ter Heyden; mid 16th century; 9 kms. S.W. of brick; facing castle, isolated brick Keep. Aerschot SAVENTHEM Church, *St. Martin dividing his cloak by 10 kms. E. of Van Dyck. Brussel.s SICHEM *Church; early Gothic; stained glass, 1387; 6 kms. W.N.W. of 16th century pictures of the Antwerp school. Diest TERVUEREN Church, chiefly 15th century; 15th-16th (outskirts of centuries sculpture. Brussels) ***Musee du Congo Belge; collections illus- trating civilization and products of the Belgian Congo, Negro art; (Director, Dr. H. Schouteden).

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TERVUEREN *Arboretum of Tervueren, founded 1902, In N.E.part of For- (Cont'd) experimental forestry reserve. est of Soignes Chateau of Ravesteyn, 18th century; now In the Forest of Royal Golf Club of Belgium. Soignes Priory of "Rouge-Cloitre"; remains of In Auderghem, area Augustinian priory, death place of Hugo of forest van der Goes. TIRLEMONT *Eglise St. Germain, 14th-15th centuries, re- (THIENEN) stored; 15th century lectern; 12th century font; square tower with spire; carillon of 42 bells. *Notre-Dame-du-Lac (Onze Lieve Vrouw ten Poel); Grand'Place only 14th-15th centuries transepts and choir, (1294) completed; square tower surmounting *14th century portal; *interior, panelling; Baroque pulpit and choir stalls, 1772. Eglise du Beguinage; Gothic facade; Dominican Convent housed in former Beguinage. Hotel de Ville, 1713; facade 1836; contains small museum with archaeological collection and modern painting. Old Flemish houses; Renaissance mansions Place Van Ranst(former built after 1635. Marche-aux-grains) UCCLE (suburb **Observatory, important modern observatory. Near the Park of of Brussels) Woldendael VILLERS-LA-VILLE Church; (in village) two carved wood altars, 11 kms. S.W. of 15th and 16th centuries. Offignies **Abbaye de Villers; ruins of historic Cister- cian abbey, founded 1147, damaged 1794, restored; Gothic refectory, 13th century cloister, altered 14th-15th centuries. *Church, 1200-1272, outstanding example of transitional style; 14th century tombstones of the Dukes of Brabant. Gdothic brewery, about 1270. VILVORDE *Eglise Notre-Dame de Bonne Esperance; Gothic 10 kms. from 14th century; *Baroque stalls, 1663. Brussels WATERLOO Ferme de la Belle-Alliance; of historic interest. Butte du Lion, commemorative monument of the Battle of Waterloo, 1824-26. Ferme d'Hououmont; remains of a 15th cen- 15 kms. S. of tury chateau, of historic interest. Brussels

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BLANKENBERGHE Eglise St.-Antoine, 14th century; with square 13 kms. N.N.W. of tower; restored in 17th century. Bruges Former Hotel de Ville (now a Bank) 1532; restored 1860 brick building with tower; contains Archives de la Ville, documents and records 14th-18th centuries. BRUGES CHURCHES Eglise de la Potterie (now museum), 1358, altered in 16th Quai de la Potterie century. (Potterie-Rei) St. Gilles, Gothic, 13th and 15th centuries; paintings. Rue de l'Eglise St.Giles (St. Gilliskerkstraat ) St. Jacques, c.1692, restored and partly rebuilt 1897; Rue de l'Eglise St.Jacqes paintings. (St. Jakobstraat) Ste. Anne, c.1500, reconstructed in early 17th century; Rue de 1'Eglise well preserved interior Baroque decoration; furnish- Ste.Anne (St. ings; paintings. Annakerkstraat) Eglise de Jerusalem (or St. Sepulcre); brick building, Rue de Jerusalem late Gothic style; tombs, monuments, 15th 17th centuries; art treasures in crypt. **Cathedrale St. Sauveur (St. Salvator), parts of 12th, Between Rue Sud-du- 13th, 14th centuries, additions, 15th-16th centuries; Sablon (Zuidzand- *interior; numerous paintings, Flemish School, includ- straat) and Rue ing *D. Bouts. des Pierres (Steerstraat) *Chapelle du Saint Sang (Heiligbloed Kapel); lower restored Place du Bourg Romanesque story, 12th century; upper, 15th century, re- (Burgplaats), to stored; portal late Gothic style, and outside staircase, right of Town early 16th century; *"Chasse du St. Sang," shrine with Hall gems, 17th century, venerated; manuscripts, paintings, etc. **Notre Dame; largest part, 13th century; *baptisteryt_ c.1470; Rue Notre-Dame tombs and marble sarcophagi of Charles the Bold (1559) and (Onze Lieve his daughter, *Mary of Burgundy (1495-1502); sculptures Vrouwstraat) (*Michelangelo); *paintings, Gothic and Renaissance masters; *furniture.

PALACES, HOUSES Hotel Bladelin, 15th century mansion, remodelled 1892; 19 Rue desAiguilles tourette with spire; now lace-making school; nearby, (Naaldenstraat) circular brick-tower, 15th century; restored 1884. *Maison Noire, early 15th century; well preserved inside 23 Rue des Tonneliers and outside. (Kuipersstraat) *Maison des Genois (Witte Saaihalle), Gothic, 1399, Rue Flamande altered 1720; relief above door. (Vlamingstraat) *Maison des Bourgeois (Poorterslogie), c.1350; tower Place Jean Van untouched; building reconstructed after 1755, restored Eyck (Jan Van in 1898-1904. Eyckplaats) *Old houses, section surrounding Place Van Eyck; Rue de I'Academie, 13, 14 (17th century), 16 (1675, with reliefs); Rue Espagnole (Spanjaardstraat); Rue Cour-de-Gand (Genthof- straat), 7 (timber house)-; Place St. Jean (St. Janplaats).

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BRUGES (Cont'd) - PALACES, HOUSES Maison des Archers de St. Sebastien (Handbogenhof), Guild End of Rue du House of Archers, 1562; *tourette and spire; paintings. Rouleau (Rolweg) Old houses, along banks of the Reye and section N. of Dyver, Dyver, Ouai du Rosaire including Rue aux Laines (Wollestraat), Rue du Vieux- (Rozenhoedkaai), Quai Bourg (Oudeburg) and Rue Neuve (Nieuwstraat). des Marbriers (Steen- houwersdyk), Quai Vert (Greene Rei) MONUMENTS Seminaire Diocesain (Bisschoppelijke Seminarie); housed Quai de la Potterie in Abbaye des Dunes, 1623; church, 17th century. (Potterie Rei) Couvent des Soeurs Noires, 1561, restored 1871; turret, Place Memlinc 15th century, of former Hanseatic House. *Tonlieu, 1477, restored in 1877; adjacent Loge des Place Jean Van Eyck Portefaix, c.1470. ***Beffroi (Halletoren); belfry, central part of Cloth Hall's Grand'Place facade, 270 ft. above building; 13th to 15th centuries; (Groote Markt) **chime, 49 bells, 1528 and later. ***Halles (Cloth Hall), 13th-14th centuries, altered and Grand'Place partly rebuilt 1561-66. (Groote Markt) Prevote (Landhuis van den Proosche), 1662 late Renais- Place du Bourg (Burg- sance, restored 1908-9. plaats), corrner of Rue de la Bride (Breidelstraat) Ancien Greffe;.(now a Court of Law), 1535-37; restored and Place du Bourg much adorned, 1884; carved swing-doors of courtroom, 1544; (Burgplaats) vaulted passage in 15th century style connecting Town Hall. **Hotel de Ville (Stadhuis), 1376; Gothic; additions, 1401-21; Place du Bourg badly restored, 1854-71; 2nd floor, woodwork, 1402. (Burgplaats) *Palais de Justice (Gerechtshof) or Franc de Bruges (Vrye); Place du Bourg Court of Justice, 1722-27; remnants of former "Franc," (Burgplaats) 15th century; in court-room (Flem.: Vierschaar), chimney- piece called "Cheminee du Franc," 1528-30, Flemish Renaissance style; iron brazier, 15th century. Porte Sainte Croix (Sinte Kruispoort); 1402, one of oldest Facing Rue du military buildings of city; Rue du Poivre inhabited by Poivre famous lace-women. (Peperstraat) Hotel Gruuthuuse; part next Reye, and N. fayade, 15th cen- Rue Grouthuuse tury; restored 1894. Musee Memlinc (or de l'H pital St. Jean (St. Jan Gasthuis); Rue Notre Dame old ward, 1289-91; sculptures above door to left of en- (Onze Lieve- trance, same period; church, 1473-75; furnishing; Vrouwstraat ) cloister, frame-work late 15th century. Be"guinage (Begijnhof); rebuilt in 1605; small N. door from Rue de la Vigne date of foundation, 1245; tombstone 1400; bridge in (Wijngaardstraat) front, 1570 and 1692. Lac d'Amour (Minnewater); used as harbor in 13th century; Minnewater near S. bridge, tower of 1398; Gothic lock-house, 15th century, recently restored.

CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS Musee de la Potterie; Municipal museum; tapestries (15th Quai de la Potterie century); prayer-books, miniatures; furniture. (Potterie-Rei)

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BRUGES (Cont'd) - CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS *Seminaire Diocesain (Bisschoppelijke Seminarie); Archives Quai de la Pottgrie Room with manuscripts, miniatures from 13th century on- (Potterie-Rei) wards, costly bindings (15th century), etc.; portraits of abbots of Les Dunes, and other civil or religious authorities. ***Tonlieu; City Public Library; thousands of volumes; *600 Place Jean Van Eyck manuscripts, including rich collection of incunabula, missals of 13th-14th century; engravings. **Archives de l'Etat (State Archives);-records of religious 14-18 Rue de institutions and corporations, feudal authorities of 1'Academie West Flanders; etc. *Collection Renders; pictures of 15th century, including Cour du Prince (in Rue Roger Van der Weyden's. Nord du Sablon or Noord Zandstraat) Musee des Hospices Civils; Municipal Museum; early Flemish Rue des Chartreuses paintings; sculptures, altar-cross, etc. (Karthuizerinnerstraat) *Archives de la Ville (City Archives); charters, records General' Post 'Office, and accounts of city authorities. Rue de la Bride (Breidelstraat) *HItel Gruuthuuse; Municipal Museum; antiquities and indus- Rue Gruuthuuse trial art, *lace-work, 400 items from 13th century onwards, various schools of Northern countries. ***Musee Communal des Beaux-Arts; City Museum of Fine Arts; Rue de Groeninghe old Flemish paintings, including masterpieces by Van Eyck, van der Goes, Memlinc, G. David, P. Pourbus; modern section, mostly Belgian school. ***Musee de l'Hopital St. Jean (or Musee Memlinc),. Municipal Rue Notre-Dame (Onze Museum; 7 Memlinc masterpieces. Lieve Vrouwstraat)

PERSONNEL R. Dewitte, Conservateur, Archives de 1'Etate L. Reckelbus, Conservateur, Mus~e Communal des Beaux-Arts. Renders, Owner of Collection. COURTRAI, (KORTRIJK) St. Michel, 1607-11 in Gothic style. Heilige Geeststraat and Rysselstraat *Notre-Dame, 1211; choir and portal rebuilt 18th century; Onze Lieve *paintings by van Dyck; **statue of Ste. Catherine, Vrouwplein 14th century. *St. Martin, 14th-15th centuries; *West portal 1592-95; Near Groote Markt early 17th century tower with 55 bells; carved pulpit, triptych, 1587. Hopital Notre-Dgme, in part 16th century; 17th century Budastraat courtyard, Baroque chapel. **Hotel de Ville, 15th century, enlarged 16th century, re- Groote Markt stored 1846, *two chimney pieces; contains Archives de la Ville. *Broeltorens, example of military architecture with two Broel towers (1386-1413) remains of town walls. BBguinage Ste. Elizabeth; facade 17th century, restored Begijnhofstraat late 19th century. *Beffroi, 14th century remains of small Cloth Hall. Groote Markt

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COURTRAI, (KORTRIJK)(Cont'd) *Archives de la Ville; documents on parchment 1190-1792; In Hotel de Ville, administrative and judicial records 15th-18th centuries. Groote Markt Muse de Peinture; paintings of Belgian School 19th and 7 Begijnhofstraat 20th century. **Muse d'Art Industrial et Archeologie; collections of glass, In former Cloth Hall *ceramics, *coptic embroideries, *weaving materials, (1536) Havermarkt **damask linens.

PERSONNEL Vierin, Curator, Muse d'Art Industriel et d'Arch'ologje. DAMME *Eglise Notre-Dame, 12th-15th centuries; un- 4 kms. N.E. of finished; restored. Bruges Hotel de Ville, former Cloth-Hall, late Gothic, 1464-68; restored 1895; *Portal, well preserved interior, 15th century chimney-piece. Musee de 1'Hopital St. Jean, begun 1250; Portraits of Governors of the Hospital by J. Van Cost the Younger; furniture, ceramics, embroideries, laces. Old Farms and Houses; Farm St.. Christophe, 16th century; "De Groote Sterre" 15th century and "De Slotel", 16th century, two patrician mansions; House of Bailiff Eustache Weyts, 13th century. DIXMUDE Town Hall, rebuilt after 1914; *remains of roodloft of St. Nicolas. FURNES **Eglise Ste-Walburge; choir 13th century, Groote Markt rebuilt 14th century. **Eglise St. Nicolas, 1379, restored 1890-97; *Tower, 13th century; triptych by van Aelst. Hotel de la Rose (now a bank), 1572; 16th Noordstraat century interior. Old Houses; 16th-17th centuries. Grand Place **Hotel de Ville; *fayade 1596-1618; tapestries. Grand Place Police Station, (former Corps de Garde or Groote Markt Hooge Wacht); 1636. Theatre, 1615 (former Meat Hall). Groote Markt *Palais de Justice and Belfry, (former Chatel- lenie or "Landhuis), 1612-28; Gothic chapel; belfry with spire of 1624. *Archives and Town Library. In Gothic building, restored, Groote Markt HARLEBEKE *Eglise St. Sauveur, founded 12th century, 5 kms. N.E. of rebuilt 1769-95; Romanesque tower and Courtrai crypt; carillon wit.h 35 bells. LISSEWEGHE *Church, 1230; altered 17th and 18th centuries, 11 kms. N.E. of restored; "Visitation", painting by J. Van Bruges Oost; 17th century furniture and fittings. Remains of Abbey of Ter Doest, important c. 1 km. S. of Lis- building of 13th century, barn with oak seweghe Tower beams, sole relic of 'er Doest Abbey (1280).

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MENIN *Archives Communales, charters 1087-1793; city 10 kms. W. of and religious institutional records 15th- Courtrai, Place 18th century, .(Archiviste, R. Vandewoode). d'Armes OSTENDE Museum of Art and Archeology; ancient and In Hotel de Ville (Oostende) modern paintings, James Ensor room, en- Place d'Armes gravings, coins, medals, etc, (Curator, -Mr. Looutiens). Archives de la Ville; documents and records In Hotel de Ville 14th-18th centuries.

Private Collection of James Ensor in his 27, Rampe de Flandre atelier. POPERINGHE *Eglise St. Bertin, c.1300; *17th century 12 kms. W. of Ypres wood carvings. Eglise St. Jean, 13th century. Eglise Notre-Dame, late Gothic; choir screen, 1752. A ROULERS Archives de la Ville, documents 1439-1758, Presumably in Hotel other city records 15th-19th centuries. de Ville RUMBEKE *Church, 13th-14th centuries. Chateau, 16th century. THIELT Gothic Cloth Hall. 13 kms.W.of Deynze Renaissance Belfry with carillon of 35 bells. Beguinage. Archives de la Ville; charters from 1275; Presumably in Hotel judicial and magistrate records from 17th de Ville century. THOUROUT *E.glise St. Pierre et St. Paul; Romanesque 13 kms. N. of facade and tower; remains of Carolingian Roulers church recently discovered. (ENVIRONS) *Castle, founded 1035, restored. Residence of the Counts of Flanders. WERVIEG *Eglise St. Medard, founded 1214, rebuilt 17 kms. W.S.W. of (Wervik) 1383-1430, restored 19th century. Courtrai YPRES *Eglise St. Martin, copy of original church destroyed 1914. *Cloth Hall; copy of original building destroyed 1914. Maison Biebuyck, 1544; partially destroyed 1914 now restored. ZEDELGHEM Church, *Romanesque font adorned with re- 9 kms. S.W. of liefs, 12th century. Bruges

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ALOST (AALST) **Eglise St. Martin, 15th century; 16th Kerkstraat century painting, 17th century sculpture; *carved wood retable with paintings by Rubens. **Hotel de Ville, 13th-16th centuries Belfry Near Groote Markt with 47 bells; contains Museum of Ar- chaeology with antiquities, *Gothic chest, "Giants of Alost". Archives de la Ville, records of the 12th- In Hotel de Ville 18th centuries. AUDENARDE (OUDENAARDE) St. Walburge; c. 1250 and 14th-16th centuries; restored; Groote Markt 17th century painting and tomb. **Notre-Dame de Pamele, 1234-43. Remains of Chateau, 14th century Rue du Tilleul Thatre, 13th century, (former Halle des Draps); hall. Near Hotel de Ville **Hotel de Ville, 1527-30, restored 1930; *Wooden door of Groote Markt Council Chamber (1530-34), *chimney piece 1529; contains Museum of Archaeology. Hopital Civil; 15th century chapel, 16th century cloister; Near St. Walburge tapestry. Beguinage, 17th century; gateway. Bourg Vieille Boucherie (Vleeschhuis), 18th century. Archives de la Ville; records from the 13th to 18th centuries. In Hotel de Ville Museum of Archaeology; *six Audenarde tapestries, *unique In Hotel de Ville collection of simar; furniture, sculpture, paintings, drawings. BEVERENWAES Church, 12th-15th centuries; 17th century 7 kms. N.E. of furniture, tomb of 1540. St. Nicolas DEYNZE Church, Gothic restored. 10 kms. S.W. of Ghent

GHENT (GAND OR GENT) CHURCHES *St. Michielkerk, (St. Michel) begun 1440, finished in 17th St. Michielstraat century, portal restored 1912; Cricifixion (damaged) by (Place St. Van Dyck; 15th century bells taken by Germans in 1943. Michel) *St. Jakobskerk, (St. Jacques) largely 15th century, re- St. Jakobsplein stored 1870-73; w. towers and lower part of central (Place St. tower 12th century; paintings, tombs, ciborium (1593?). Jacques) St. Niklaaskerk; (St. Nicolas) main portal and turrets, Between the Belfry nave walls and base of central tower 12th century, rest and the Koornmarkt; reconstructed in 15th. (Marche au Bl ) ***St. Baafs (Cathedrale St. Bavon); crypt partly 11th cen- St. Baafsplein tury, choir 1228-early 14th century, with 16th century (Place St. Bavon) additions; tower 1462-1534; numerous works of arts: Van Eyck altarpiece (stolen by Germans, 1943); Rubens' St. Bavo; *Delvaus pulpit (1745), *memorial of Bishop Triest by the Duquesnoy. St. Peter, (St. Pierre) 1629-1719; paintings (one by De Mont Blandin Crayer); *five wrought-iron grills, 1748.

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GHENT (GAND OR GENT)(Cont'd) HOUSES 18th century mansion (now Musee des Arts Industriels et 9 Jan Breydelstraat Decoratifs) by David 't Kindt; facade; courtyard unique in Flanders; largely original decorations. **'s Gravensteen (Chateau des Comtes), mediaeval fortress Ste. Pharaildis- founded 11th century, rebuilt in late 12th, restored plaats (Place 1894; former residence of counts of Flanders; inscrip- Ste. Pharailde) tion 1180; museum with swords of justice and instruments of torture; historical documents; also 16th-17th century houses surrounding the square. Old houses to N.W. and N.E. of Town Hall in the Hoogport- straat (Rue du Haut Port): 29 (Goldsmith's Hall, 1481, Gothic); corner of the Botermarkt (Hotel de la Cour St. Georges, courtyard 1476); 52-54 (de Groote Moor and de Zwarte Moor, late 15th century); 56 (De Sikkel or La Faucille, now Music Conservatory, with courtyard "de Achter Sikkel"); De Kleine Sikkel, early 13th century. *Architectural ensemble on the Koornlei (Quai au Ble) and Graslei (Quai aux Herbes), along Lys River behind Post Office: Koornlei, House of the Hired Boatmen, 1740; Graslei, 20, House of the Free Boatmen (Maison des Francs- Bateliers), flamboyant Guildhouses; 18, Maison des Measureurs de Grain, 1698; 15, **Romanesque Staple House (Maison de 1'Etape), 12th century Granary; 12, "Ange", Guildhouse of masons, 1530. Exchange and houses; on Kouter (Place d'Armes): guard-house, 1739, forms entrance to Exchange; 25 (Hotel Faligan, 1755); on N. of square, old houses. Petit Beguinage Notre-Dame (Klein Begijnhof van Onze Lieve 59 Violettenstraat Vrouw), unaltered since 17th century. (Rue Longue des Violettes) MONUMENTS Rabot, small fort, 1489, of historic interest. Near Rabot R.R. Station

*Mont-de-Piete, Renaissance, by Wenceslas Coebergher; con- 13 Abrahamstraat tains archives, numismatic collections. (Rue Abraham) ***The Biloke, (Hospital and Archaeological Museum), mediaeval Kluyskensstraat, hospital, abbey (1228) and 17th century monastery; gables Godshuizenlaan, of abbey; hospital a masterpiece of civic Gothic style; Bylokekaai almost intact specimen of mediaeval hospital, one of (.uai de la oldest in W. Europe; 14th century mural in refectory; Biloque) contains Archaeological Museum. Oud Dominikaansch Klooster (old Dominican convent); *parts 15 Dalstraat (Rue of E. wing probably 13th century; other parts 14th; 15th de la Vallee) century cloister with modern additions. Dulle Griet (Mad Meg), 14th century wrought-iron cannon Between the Vrijdag- with arms of Philip the Good; symbol of liberty. markt(Marche du Vendredi)and the Lei (Lys) River

Groot Vleeschhuis'(Meat Hall), 1408-17; chapel with remains Groenselmarkt of mural, 1448, restored. (Marche aux Legumes)

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GHENT (GAND OR GENT)(Cont'd) - MONUMENTS **Stadhuis (Town Hall), core 1482-84; Gothic N. facade, Botermarkt early 16th century; Botermarkt fa9 ade 17th century; (Marche au Beurre) old chapel of St. John the Baptist. **Belfry, 14th century, upper part restored 1913; vane 1378; Behind Cloth Hall, carillon, 37 bells of 1660, by Hemony. St. Baafsplein (Place St. Bavon) Chateau de Gerard le Diable (Geeraard-Duivelsteen), early Behind Cathedral 13th century stronghold, much restored, 1886-93; con- St. Bavo, near tains State Archives for Eastern Flanders. St. Laurentsplein *Barracks, part of old Benedictiiie Abbey; 16th century St. Pietersplein Gothic cloister. **St. Baafs Abdij (Abbey of St. Bavo), ruins of 7th century 5 Abdij Straat abbey frequently rebuilt after 10th century; cloister (Rue de, 1'Abbaye) c. 1175, rebuilt'1495, one of few remaining Romanesque cloisters in Belgium; now Musee Lapidaire.

CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS *Archives Communales with documents from 1070-1837; c. 65 In Mont-de-Piete, chartularies, administrative records of city authorities, 13 Abrahamstraat guild records and accounts, 14th-18th centuries, church (Rue Abraham) and hospital archives, 10th-18th centuries; judicial records, 15th-18th centuries; also numismatics collection. *Musee des Arts Industriels et Decoratifs; furniture, Far 9 Jan Breydel- Eastern art,?ceramics; library, 3000 volumes. straat ***Mus4e d'Archeologie (or van Oudheden); *painted glass, In Biloke, 4 God- flags, tombstones, old posters, *mural (early 14th cen- huizenlaan (Boulevazd tury), tapestries, etc. des Hospices) Mus~e du Folklore. In old Carmelite Chrch, 14 Lange Steenstraat (Longue Rue des Fierres) ***Athen6e, Town and University Library; over 40,000 volumes In forer Carthusian Abbey and *2000 mss. (one of 12th century), drawings, engrav- (largely 17th century), ings, plans and views of old Ghent, 25,000 pamphlets, St. Jakobsplein and 16th-18th centuries, etc. Bandeloostraat **Collection of Georges Hulin de Loo; paintings (many now 3 Bisdomplein(Place in Museum of Fine Art) and sculpture. de l'Evechd) **Archives de 1'Etat, Province de Flandre Orientale; 11th- In Chateau de 13th century charters of counts of Flanders; records of Gerard le Diable, Council and other authorities of County of Flanders, 1 Rue G4rard le 14th-18th centuries; notarial records from 16th century, Diable family papers, archives of suppressed convents, maps, plans. **Musee des Beaux-Arts; o]d paintings ***(two Hieronymus Parc de la Bosch), sculpture; large modern section with 19th cen- Citadelle tury Belgian works. Musee Lapidaire; stone work; *grave slabs, 13th century In ruins of St. Bavo and later; sculptural and architectural fragments; Abbey, Abdij Straat *13th century statue "L'Homme du Beffroi". (Rue de l'Abbaye) Archives de la Cathedrale; arhhives of Abbeys of St. Bavon Probably in Bishop's and St. Pierre, 7th-19th centuries; archives of Char- Palace, to E. of treux, 1308-1781. 'Cathedral St. Bavo Collection of late M. Delacre; drawings (Breugel, Van Dyck, 16 Fortlaan l6th-18th century French).

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GHENT (GAND OF GENT)(Cont'd) PERSONNEL H. Now,'Archivist, Archives Communales and Conservateur, Muse des Arts Industriels et Decoratifs, Mus~e d'Ar- cheologie, Musee Lapidaire, Musee du Folklore, s'Graven- steen Museum. Fr. yan Loo, Conservateur, Mus4e des Beaux-Arts. Charles Van den Haute, Conservateur, Archives de 1'Etat. R. F. Apers, Director, University Library. GRAMMONT Eglise St. Bathelemy, Gothic; "Marbol" (Geeraadsbergen) fountain nearby. Archives de la Ville; c. 400 documents on In the Hotel de parchment from 1118; records and ac- Ville counts 15th-18th centuries. LAERNE **Castle. 13th century, frequently altered from the 14th-17th century, now the prop- erty of the Comte de Ribeaucourt. LOKEREN Eglise St. Laurent, 1720; tower; wooden pulpit, 1736. *Municipal Museum of Archaeology; local In Hitei de Ville history and folklore, scientific instru- or 3 Petite Rue ments (President Mr. Arthur Wauters). de 1'Eglise Archives de la Ville, records of city authorities; (Archivist H. Klein). MESPELAERE Church and Mediaeval pillory. 5 kms. S. ofTermonde MACHELEN Church, 13th-14th centuries. 5 kms.S.W.of Deynze NINOVE *Church and buildings of Premonstratension 11 kms.S. of Alost Abbey; 1635-1723; 18th century wood carvings and paintings. Porte aux Vaches, 15th century gateway. OYDONCK Chateau, rebuilt 1500 and end of 16th cen- 5kms.N.E.of Deynze (Hooidonk) tury, recently restored. RENAIX (RONSE) *Eglise St. Hermes, Gothic; *Romanesque crypt. Archives de la Ville; documents 13th-18th In Hotel de Ville centuries, city records 16th-18th centuries; municipal and church accounts 16th-19th centuries. Markt ST. NICOLAS *Eglise St. Nicolas, 15th-16th centuries, Groote (St. Niklaas) rebuilt 1695, restored 1900. *Palais de Justice and mediaeval houses. *Museum of Archaeology; *Mercator Room with Zanamstraat celestial and terrestial spheres; Belgo- Roman antiquities, collections of folklore (Director, De Maeschalk). Archives de la Ville; records of seigniories In Hotel de Ville from 16th-18th centuries and of French (Belfry with 35 bells) GrooteMakt period 1795-1814. TERMONDE *Eglise Notre Dame, 15th century partly de- (Dendermonde) stroyed 1914; *Romanesque fonts; paintings by *van Dyck, De Crayer and others; *altar and wainscot. *Town Hall, 14th century, damaged 1914; Groote Markt *Belfry with 40 bells; contains small

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TERMONDE Archaeological museum; prehistoric and In Ancienne Grand' (Dendermonde) Belgo-Roman antiquities, arms. Garde, Groote (Cont 'd ) Markt Beguinage, 17th century. WATERVLIET Church, 16th century; Pieta by Q. Metsys; 11 kms. North of high altar. Eecloo.

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Province of Hainaut

ANTOING Chateau des Princes de Ligne, modern; re- 6 kms. S.E. of mains of dungeon and 12th century ram- Tournai parts; *funeral monument of Jean de Melun and his wife. Hotel de Ville, 2nd half of 13th century, contains Archives de la Ville. ATH Eglise St. Julien, founded 1393, rebuilt after fire 1817; 15th century tower, portal and apse; *Treasury; reliquary St. Julien (1603). Church St. Martin, 1585; *Calvary. Hopital de la Madeleine; *portrait of Philippe le Bou, (School of Roger van der Weyden). *Tour de Burbant, 1150; outstanding example of Romanesque military architecture; remains of old dungeon, in a 15th century enclosure; surrounded by Gothic houses, 1526. Small archaeological museum, adjacent to tower (Secretary, Mr. van Haudenard). Old houses; no. 24, Grand Place, 16th century house; no. 28, rue Haute, 16th century, Gothic, with Renaissance details. *Hotel de Ville, 1614-1624, by W. Coebergher, old chimney-piece, souvenirs of guilds; contains Archives de la Ville with documents and records. 14th-18th centuries. ATTRE *Chateau, 18th century, interior 17th and 18th 5 kms. S.E. ofAth centuries; wainscot, gypsum work, marble chimney-piece AULNE *Ruins of Abbey; remains of 11th-12th and 13th 7-1/2kms.S.W. of centuries Cistercian structure; smallpoly- Charleroi gonal Renaissance buildings; some 18th century buildings. BEAUMONT Tour Salamandre, 1150; large square dungeon. Archives de la Ville; documents, registers, In Hotel de Ville accounts 13th-18th centuries. BELOEIL *Chateau des Princes de Ligne, modern; con- 10kms. S.S.W. of tains *museum of old masters paintings, Ath family furniture, works of art *Library, 17th century *Parc by Le Notre (Owned by Prince Eugene de Ligne). BINCHE Eglise St. Ursmer, 12th century; 15th cen- 16kms. E.S.E. of tury side naves; Gothic marble-screen, Mons 1592; chapel in churchyard, unusual structure and sculptures, tombstones, paintings. *Old City Wall, 12th century, almost untouched; five gateways and twenty-five towers. Unique example of urban mediaeval fortification in Belgium. Hotel de Ville, 15th century; rebuilt 18th century, restored 1896; belfry; contains Archivesde laVille; documents and records.

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BLATON Church, 12th cenitury. 5 kms. S.E. of Peruwelz

BONNE-ESPERA1CE Abbey and Church, now a Seminary; Premonstra- 3.5 kms. S.S.W. of tention abbey, 18th century; 13th century Binche tower. BONSECOURS Chateau de 1'Ermitage; (Owned by the Duke of On French border, Croy). 2 kms. S.E. of Peruwelz

BOUSSU Eglise St. Gery; 13th century choir; bell- c. 11 kms. W. of tower, 1501. Mons BRAINE-LE-COMTE Eglise St. Ge'ry, 13th-16th centuries; re- 16 kms. from Hal table, 1577, surmounted by ciborium with sculptures; rood-screen, 1593. Chapel of the former Recollect Convent, 1627, early Baroque fagade. Convent of Fathers of the Sacred Heart (also called Picpus); contains Museum of American, Indian and Pacific Archaeology. CHARLEROI Eglise de Mareinelle, 12th century. In a suburb of Charleroi

Chateau de Monceau; works of art, paintings, Monceau-sur-Sambre, sculptures, etc.(Owned by Baron Houtart outskirts of family). Charleroi Musee Archeologique; Prehistoric,-Roman and Frankish antiquities from the region; 13th- 18th centuries regionalpottery, (President, Mr. E. Devreux). Hotel de Ville: Archives de la Ville. Place Charles-Deux CHIEVRES Church, 16th century; funeral monument; 5-1/2 kms. S.E. of pelican-lectern, 15th century. Ath Chapelle St. Jean; 12th century; belonged to the Knights of Malta. Chapelle Cadrerie; 12th century nave; 13th century choir. Tourdu Gavre; remains of a mediaeval enclosure. Archivesde la Ville; documents and accounts In the Hotel de 15th-18th centuries. Ville CHIMAY Eglise des S.S. Pierre-et-Paul, 16th century; choir 1275, tower 1732; *stained glass, choir and organ. Chateau of Princes of Caraman-Chimay, recently rebuilt; *Park; Theater in front court of castle. ENGHIEN Eglise St. Nicolas, 1st half 14th century; 23 kms. N.E. of tower rebuilt 19th century, carillon of Ath 32 bells. *Chapelle St. Eloi, 13th century. Eglise du Couvent des Capucins, 15th century; *16th century alabaster tomb of Guillaume de Croy, restored; *high altar, convent buildings rebuilt 1850. Eglise des Jesuites former Augustinian church; 15th century choir, 17th century nave.

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ENGHIEN (Cont'd) *Park and Chapel of Dukes of Enghien; chapel, a former dungeon of the Duke's destroyed castle, contains *carved and gilded wood retable, 16th century; stained glass etc., Park 17th century. Archives de la Ville; documents and records In Hotel de Ville 14th-19th centuries. ESQUELMES Church, small early Christian Basilica. 7.5 kms. N. of Tournai FLOBECA Church, Romanesque and Gothic; 13th century 7.5 kms. N.W. of tower. Lessines FONTAINE- Chateau and ruins of ramparts, 13th century. 9 kms. W. of L'EVEQUE Charleroi GERPINNES Eglise St. Nicolas, late Gothic; Romanesque 10 kms. S.E. of font; *Reliquary of Ste Rolande, Renaissance. Charleroi HAM-SUR-HEURE Chateau de Merode; former feudal castle, now 10 kms. S.W. of Renaissance building (Owned by the Princes Charleroi of M4rode). HAVRE Chateau; (Owned by Prince de Croy). 8kms. E.of Croy HEIGNE-SOUS- *Chapel, late 12th century; choir rebuilt c.4 kms. from JUMET 1618, restored 1937-8; secone altar and Charleroi cross, 16th century; 17th century furnishings, bronze Virgin, about 1500. LES ECAUSSINES *Chateau d'Ecaussines-Lalaing, founded 11th 7 kms. N.E. of century, chiefly 15th century; some 13th Binche century parts; contains a museum of antiquities. Ch teau de la Folie; *Chapel of 1528 In Ecaussines d'Enghien LESSINES *Eglise St. Pierre, 13th-16th centuries; 9 kms. N.W. of *retables, rood-loft, 1615. Ath Hapital de Notre-Dame a la Rose, founded 1242, rebuilt 1606-1661; Renaissance and Gothic cloister contains collection of ironworks, ceramics, Gothic furniture, local Archaeology. Archives de la Ville, documents, records, In Hotel de Ville accounts 16th-18th centuries. (1691) LOBBES *Eglise St. Wismer, 1095; rectangular choir, 14 kms. S.W. of over crypt, with four ranks of pillars Charleroi. The and columns. Church c. 3kms MARIEMONT **Chateau and Museum, 1830-36; 16th century 4 kms. S.E. of portal in park. State Museum; important La Louviere collection of Tournai porcelain, Brussels, Japan and China ware; *Greek and Roman antiquities, Far East art *Rich Library, (Curator Mr. Paul Fa.ider). *Park, with old trees, numerous sculptures of Far East and *modern including A. Rodin and C. Meunmer. Institute of Horticulture. MONS CHURCHES Ste. Elizabeth, 16th century; rood loft 1601, 18th century Rue de Nimy bell-tower and organ.

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Province of Hainaut

MONS (Cont'd) - CHURCHES **St. Waudru, 1450-1621; *sculpture, *16th century stained Place du Chapitre glass; *Treasury with reliquaries; wooden "golden Car" (1699). Chapel St. Georges, 1599-1604. Grand Place St. Nicolas-en-Havre; 17th century facade, 15th Rue d'Havre century tower, 17th-18th century wood-carvings.

CHATEAU AND HOUSES A Chateau des Comtes de Hainaut; walls, conciergerie, 11th- Square du Chateau 12th century chapel. Old Houses: Maison de la Toison d'Or and 16th century Grand Place Gothic house. Old Houses: 14 Rue d'Enghien, (former Hotel du Marquis de Gages .1767); 36 Rue d'Havre (former rest-house of the Abbey of Aulne); 17 Rue Terre du Prince (Hotel Canon- Legrand, 18th century).

MONUMENTS *Hotel de Ville, 1458 with 18th century additions; contains Grand Place Archives and Musees du Centenaire. *Beffroi, 1661-69; chime of 47 bells. Square du Chateau Puits du Marche-aux-Poulets, 17th century. Marche-aux-Poulets

CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS *Archives de 1'Etat; records of the province both church and 23 Place du Parc secular, 13th-19th centuries. Musee Montois; antiquities and furniture, sculpture, sou- In 17th century venirs of local history. building, Rue Neuve Musee des Beaux-Arts; Belgian 19th century art, ancient and In modern building, contemporary art. Rue Neuve *Bibliotheque, 120,000 volumes, manuscripts, incunabula, rare Rue des Gades books (Plantin Editions) and miniatures. Muses du Centenaire; *ceramics, coins, prehistoric collec- In former Mont de tions and antiquities. Piete, 1620, now part of Hotel de Ville

Archives de la Ville; records from 1836. In the Hotel de Ville, Grand Place

*Musee du Chanoine Puissant; formerly private collection; Rue des Sars library, prints, drawings, 14th-16th century sculpture. *Musee d'Histoire Naturelle et de Geologie; ornothological .Rue Houdain and other natural history collections. *Ecole des Mines; laboratories. Boulevard du Roi Albert *Institut Provincial d'Hygiene et de Bacteriologie; library Boulevard and museum of hygiene. Sainctelette

PERSONNEL Armand Carlot, Archivist, Archives de 1'Etat Marcel Gillis, Conservateur, Musee des Beaux-Arts MONTIGNIES- *Roman bridge (crossing a brook in the woods); 9 kms. S.W.ofThuin, ST. EHRISTOPHE 1st century, partly rebuilt in the Middle on the road Bavai- Ages; thirteen small Roman arcades. Treves (a Roman highway).

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MORLANWELZ Abbaye de 1'Olive, ruins of a Cisterician 1 km. S. of Abbey, founded 1218. Mariemont ST. GHISLAIN Church, 1565; restored; **Reliquary of St. 9 kms. W. of Ghislain. Mons SENEFFE **Chateau, 1779, rich inside decoration; 10 kms. S.W. of Library; Park with *Orangerie and *Theatre, Nivelles owned partly by Mrs. Maurice Philippson, occupied since 1940, by the German Military Governor of Belgium, von Falkenhausen. SOIGNIES **Eglise St. Vincent, begun 965, completed 11th 16 kms. N.E. of century; 13th centuryttower of fagade; one Mons of outstanding Romanesque churches in Bel- gium; Romanesque cloisters, damaged; 15th century painting. Muse Archeologique; Roman, Frankish Roman- in former chapel, esque and Mediaeval Archaeology; (Mr. A. churchyard of Demeuldre). Eglise St.Vincent SOLRE-SUR- Chateau, 15th century. 12-1/2 kms. E. of SAMBRE Erquelinnes SPIENNES Prehistoric underground site, important 4 kms. S.E. of excavations begun in 1867. Mons THUIN Tour Notger; remains of 10th century forti- 15 kms. W. of fications. Charleroi Belfry, first half of 17th century. Archives de la Ville, in the Municipal College. TOURNAI (DOORNIK) CHURCHES St. Nicholas, 12th-13th centuries; 14th and 15th century Rue du Chateau tombs. Ste. Marie-Madeleine, early Gothic; 15th century sculpture. Rue de la Madeleine *St. Jacques, 13th century, restored; 12th century tower, Rue des Soeurs Noirs 13th century nave, aisles, and transepts; in chapel, tomb 1404. *St. Brice, 12th century basilica, altered in 13th-14th Place St. Brice centuries. St. Quentin, 12th century often altered and rebuilt; 14th Granc Place century tomb. ***Cathedrale Notre-Dame, i2th-14th centuries; five towers, Place de 1'Eveche 12th century sculptures on Porte Mantille and Porte au Capitole; 12th century frescoes, 15th century stained glass (restored), Renaissance rood, Arras tapestries (c. 1400); *Treasury, *Reliquary of Virgin by Nicolas de Verdun, chasuble, 12th century. *Eglise duSeminaire Episcopal, 17th century; rood loft 1605. Rue des Jesuites St. Piat, 12th-13th century basilica; bell tower. Rue St. Piat

HOUSES *"Maisons Romanes", unusual examples 12th century houses. 10 and 12 Rue Barre St. Brice

*Patrician Renaissance Houses. Grand Place *Maisons Romanes, 12th century. Rue St. Piat

MONUMENTS *Pont des Trous, c. 1300; arches and towers. Over Schelde River

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TOURNAI (Cont'd) - MONUMENTS Tour Henri VIII, 1513; remains of castle; now military museum. Place Verte Mont de Piete, (pawn-shop) designed by W. Coebergher Rue des Carmes (c. 1560-1634). **Old Buildings surrounding Cathedral; Marche' aux Poteries; Place de l'Eveche Eveche; "Fausse Porte"; Bishop's Chapel. *Halle aux Draps, 1610 rebuilt 1881. Grand-Place **Beffroi, 1187, restored 19th century; chime. Grand-Place *Hotel de Ville, in 18th century priory buildings; remains Rue St. Martin of 15th century cloisters in park. Remains of city walls, 13th century. Right bank Schelde River *Museum of Fine Arts, 1928, by Victor Horta. In Court of Hotel de Ville CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS *Biblioth que de la Ville; manuscripts and printed works. In house of 1755, Place de l'Eveche *Archives de l'Evgche et de la Cathedrale, 15th-16th century In Eveche tax records and archives of the Bishop; 13th-18th century chartularies and records of the Chapter. **Musee des Antiquites et des Arts Decoratifs; antiquities, In former Halle furniture, sculpture, ceramics, ivories, goldsmith works, aux Draps illuminated manuscripts. *Musee du Folklore, regional folklore. In 17th century brick houses,Re- duit des Sions *Musee d'Histoire Naturelle; ornithological collection. In court of Hotel de Ville **Musee des Beaux-Arts; 20th century French and Belgian paint- In court of Hotel ings, (Manets); sculpture. de Ville **Archives de la Ville, 12th-18th century records and c. 3000 Rue des Orfevres charters. Jardin d'arboriculture, fruit trees. Near Place de Lille

PERSONNEL M. Adolphe Hocquet, Conservateur, Musee des Antiquitks et des Arts D coratifs; Librarian, Bibliothc'que de la Ville; and Archiviste, Archives de la Ville (Rue des Orfevres). M. L. Pion, Conservateur, Musee des Beaux-Arts. TRAZEIGNIES Church, Gothic; Tombs of Gillon de Trazeignies 13 kms. N.W. of and Jacqueline de Lalaing. Charleroi Chateau, 11th century, rebuilt 16th century, altered 19th century, restored 1927.

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Province of Liege

AMAY *Church, Romanesque with three towers; 6 kms. E. of Huy *enamelled reliquary. DOLHAIN Eglise St. Georges; Gothic; Romanesque crypt 6 kms. N.W. of and 16th century apse; 16th century Verviers tabernacle.

HANNUT *Church, 13th century; 14th century choir, 10 kms. S. of 13th century statue. Landen HAUTE-FLONE Abbaye de Flo"ne and *Church, 17th-18th cen- 8 kms. N.E. of Huy tury buildings; church rebuilt 1660; *tower, *gravestones. HUY ***Eglise Notre-Dame, 1311-1A09, restored 19th 30 kms. N.E. of century; outstanding example of Gothic Namur architecture in Belgium; *rose window; *treasury with reliquaries; carillon with 41 bells.

*Eglise St. Mengold, Gothic; interior altered Grand'Place 17th century. Sanctuaire and. Chateau de la Sarte. Outside city walls Maisons du "Batta", Renaissance. Val-Notre-Dame, (now Assumption Convent Outside city walls School) former Cistercian abbey with well- preserved 17th-18th century buildings. *The "Bassinia"; fountain with bronze sculp- Grand'Place tures of 1406 and 1597. La Tour d'Oultremont, 17th century. Li Pontia, stone bridge built 1300, restored Over Meuse River in 1714. Muse Communal; folklore, stones of Roman and mediaeval periods, 19th century pottery from Huy; (J. Preud'homme-Trokay, curator). Archives Communales; documents on parchment, In Hotel de Ville deliberations of the City council from and Musee Com- 1527; accounts from 1579; some guild munal records; c.2,500 bundles. LA GLEIZE Church, Romanesque, 12th century. 7 kms.W.of Stavelot LIEGE CHURCHES *St. Setvais, 15th-l16th centuries; restored 19th century; Behind Station du 14th century statues, 17th century confessionals. Palais St. Antoine, 13th, 17th, 18th centuries, restored 1866. Rue Hors-Chateau **St. Barthelemy, 11th; 12th centuries; crypt; interior re- Place Paul Janson

modelled 18th century; carillon, 1774. **Basilica of St. Martin, 10th, 16th centuries; 16th century Rue Mont St.Martin stained glass, 16th century polychrome statue; twelve medallions by Delcour. **St. Croix, West choir 1175, East choir and nave 14th cen- Rue Haute tury; 15th century triptych; statues by Delcour; treasury. Sauveniere **St. Jean, 18th century; 16th century cloisters; 12th cen- Rue St. Jean tury tower; 13th century statue. **St. Denis, 15th century with 18th century additions; sculp- Rue de la Regence ture by Delcour; paintings by L. Lombard.

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LIEGE (Cont'd) - CHURCHES St. Pholien, 1913; 13th century venerated statue of Virgin. Place St. Pholien St. Christophe, early Gothic, restored 19th century. Near Rue St.Gilles **Cathedrale St. Paul, choir 1280, remainder late Gothic; Place du Roi 16th century stained glass, 13th century wrought iron Albert door; 14th century cloister. **St. 4acques, 1513-38; West vestibule 1170; 16th century Rue St. Jacques stained glass, statue of Virgin, 1523. St. Gilles, 12th century. At St. Nicolas, 'near Liege HOUSES Old Houses: Rue Hors-Chateau and Montagne de Bueren with staircase. Old Houses: Quai de la Batte, especially 16th century Maison Havart.

MONUMENTS *Palais de Justice, 16th century; two courts, 1526; 18th Place St. Lambert century Brussels tapestries. Fontaine de la Vierge, 18th century by Jean Delcour. Rue Vinave-d'Ile *Fontaine du Perron, 1696; emblem of the city. Place du Marche Hotel de Ville, 1714-18. Place du Marche Ancienne Abbaye de St. Laurent, 18th century; now barracks. Rue St. Laurent Turret, 15th century. 9 Rue Mont St. Martin Cour des Prebendiers, buildings of 16th century hospice. 54-60 Rue d'Axrercour

CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS **Musee des Beaux-Arts; modern French GIngres) and Belgian 34 Rue de paintings and sculpture; paintings and sculpture by 1'Academie Liege masters. *Musee d'Ansembourg 1735; rooms showing 18th century decora- 108 Rue Feronstree tive arts of the region. *Musee de la Vie Wallonne; collections pertaining to Walloon 136 Rue Feronstree folklore. **Musee Curtius; archeological museum with Belgo-Roman and In house partly of Frankish antiquities found in region, collections per- 1600, 13 Quai de taining to history of Walloon, manuscripts; private Maestricht library; *Romanesque sculpture. *Musee d'Armes; collection of firearms from 16th century to In 18th century present day. building, 8 Quai de Maestricht Archives de la Ville, 19th century records of city authori- In anrx of Hotel de Ville, ties. Place du Marche **University Library; c. 450,000 volumes, 2250 manuscripts, 1 Place Cockerill miniatures, prints, bindings. Archives de 1'Etat; records of the Principality of Liege Rue Jonfosse and Duchy of Limbourg from 13th-18th centuries, records of Cathedral of Liege 11th-18th centuries; maps, plans, and family archives 15th-18th centuries. Musie Diocesain; 12th-18th century sculptures, coin In cloister of collection. Cathedral Bibliotheque du Seminaire; archives of the arch deacons; Rue des Premontres, Bible of 1248. and Boulevard Piercot **Natural History Museum; paleontological collection. In the University, Place du Vingt-Aut

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LIEGE (Cont'd) - CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS Musee Gretry; portraits, autographs, manuscripts and 34 Rue des souvenirs of composer. Recollets *Bibliotheque du Conservatoire Musique; rare books, musical Boulevard Piercot, manuscripts and instruments. and Rue Forgent *Private collection of Mr. Armand Baar; 16th-18th century 4 Rue Le beau glass ware. **Obs~rvatoire; belonging to University. Avenue de Cointe M. Jacques Ochs,,Conservateur, Musee des Beaux-Arts.(2B-1). M. Jean Servais, Conservateur, Musee Curtius and Musee d'Ansembourg* M. J.M. Remouchamps, Musee de la Vie Wallonne, Prof. J. Brassinne, Librarian, University Library and Musee Diocesain. E..Fairon, Archivist, Archives de l'Etat. C. Bourgault, Conservateur, Musee Gretry. Mr. Alfred Baar, son of collector, 13 Rue de 1'Exposition. MALMEDY Former abbey church, 1775-84 with chimes; Place du Chatelet Abbey buildings; (now municipal offices), 1743; Chapel house with museum of folklore; (Canon Ch. Dubois, Curator). MODAVE Chateau, 17th century; sarcophagus in church. 12 kms.S.E.of Huy NEUVILLE- Ferme de la Cerse-Rouge, 16th century; tower. 5 kms. E. of Huy EN-COUDROZ REMOUCHAMPS Chateau de Montjardin, 15th century with park. 42 kms.S.E. of Liege ST. SEVERIN- *Church, 12th century remains of Benedictine E. of Huy

EN-CONDROZ priory. SPA Archives de la Ville; resolutions of the Presumably in Magistrate, 18th century; accounts and Hotel de Ville judicial records from the 16th century. STAVELOT Parish Church; Romanesque crypt and tower; 22 kms. S. remainder 1750; **Reliquary of St. Remacle, Verviers 1265; *Reliquary of St. Poppon, 1626. Town Hall and Hospital; remains of Abbey buildings. THEUX *Church, 11th century; choir 1521, tower 8th 4 kms. S. of and 9th centuries; 15th century murals, Pepinster Romanesque font. Old Houses and "Perron", 16th-17th centuries. VAL-NOTRE-DAME Cistercian Abbey, 17th-18th centuries build- Near Statte ings; (now a Convent-school). VERVIERS Musee Communal; Flemish School paintings and In 17th century 19th century Belgian paintings (Maurice house, Rue Pirenne, curator). Renier Archives de la Ville; documents on parchment In Hotel de Ville from 1452, city council records and accounts from 1615, church and hospital records 16th-18th centuries. VISE Church, Gothic; **reliquary of St. Hadelin 16 kms. N.E. of c. 1100. Liege. WEZEREN Church, 12th century altered in 18th century. Remains of Roman villa and Frankish cemetery. 3 krs. S.E. of Lainden XHIGNESSE Church, Romanesque, 11th century. 5 kms. N.E. of Hamoir

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CORTENBOSCH Church; carved confessionals, 17th century. 10 kms. S.E. of Hasselt CURANGE *Castle, former Abbey of Herckenrode; includ- 2 kms. N.W. of ing a gate-house, 1st half of 16th century; Hasselt 18th century abbess' palace and various buildings. ELLICUM Church, late 15th century; carved Calvary. 19 kms. W.N.W. of Maeseyck FREEREN Church; eagle-lectern, 14th-15th centuries. 4 kms. S.E. of Tongres HASSELT Eglise Notre-Dame, 1726-31; marble mausoleum of Anne Lamboy and other sculpture from Abbey of Herckenrode; 14th century statue of the Virgin called "Virga Gesse". Eglise St. Quentin, 14th, 15th, 16th cen- Near Groote Markt turies, restored; stalls, 1549; lectern, 1536; 15th-16th centuries wooden statues. Refuge de l'Abbaye de Herckenrode (now Bar- racks) 1542-46; pilgrim's rest house, de- pendent of Herckenrode Abbey; recently restored. Het Zwaard called "Maison du Bras de Fer" Groote Markt now a chemist's shop); interior 17th and 18th centuries. *Archives de 1'Etat, records and archives 8 Avenue' Bamps 11th-18th centuries. 7,000 documents on parchment. (Conservateur J. Lyna). Archives de la'Ville, 400 documents on parch- In 17th century ment 15th-17th centuries; archives 15th- Hotel de Ville 18th centuries. LOOZ (BORGLOON) Hotel de Ville and Market Place (Groote 9 kms. W.N.W. Markt); square tower and small chapel; typical of Tongres old houses encircle the Market Place. MAESEYCK Church; **Evangeliare d'Aldeneik, 8th. century 41 kms. N.E. of (Maaseik) (the oldest illuminated manuscript in Hasselt Belgium); sculptured group, 16th century. *Church of former Monastery of Aldeneyck, 12th About 2 kms. N. century Basilica; 13th century tower; late of the town 13th century choir, restored 1875, *carved crucifix, 1300. Several 17th century houses, especially Rue Bois-leDuc. Archives de la Ville; in the Hotel de Ville, documents, 1400-1576; records and accounts 17th- 18th centuries. NEEROETEREN Church, Gothic; elaborate inside decoration; 7 kms. W. of wall paintings; *collection of sculpture. Maeseyck ORDINGEN Chateau de Ryekel, 2nd half 17th century. Near Ordingen 4kms. E. of St. Trond OTRANGE Chateau, late 17th century. 8 kms. S.W. of and Tongres LOWAIGE Calvary, 14th century, with statue of Virgin. 1t kms. E. of Otrange

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RYCKHOVEN *Chateau des Vieux-jones; Renaissance castle, 66 kms. N.E. of with chapel in park. Tongres ST. TROND (ST. TRUIDEN) *Eglise St. Martin, 12th century; Equestrian Rue Haut-Pont statue on the tower. Eglise Notre-Dame, 13th-15th centuries, with Grand'Place modern tower and facade; Last Judgment, a fresco of 1626, over the choir. *Eglise St. Pierre, 11th century; restored. Near Chaussee de Hannut Eglise des Recollets, Franciscan church, 1731. Rue de Lidge Eglise St. Gangulphe, 12th century, Romanesque. *Beguinage Ste. Agnes and church; B guinage founded 1258; church with 13th century facade, restored; now a museum of religious history: *35 frescoes;, 13th to 17th century grave-stones, lace-work, goldsmith's work. Petit-Seminaire, Romanesque and Renaissance remains of the Abbey founded by St. -Trudo; 12th century tower, 18th century chapel, Library. Hotel de Ville, 17th-18th centuries; tower (1606), contains Archives de la Ville; 12th- 19th centuries documents and records. N.W. of TESSENDERLOO Eglise St. Martin; elaborate decoration, *rood- 28 kms. screen, sculpture, 1st half 16th century. Hasselt Groote Markt TONGRES **Eglise Notre Dame, early Gothic Basilica, 1240 (TONGEREN) and 14-15th centuries; *Romanesque crypt. **Romanesque cloisters, 12th century; carillon of 42 bells; *16th century carved wood retable; **treasury: reliquaries 7th to 17th centuries; *brass lectern and Easter chandelier 1372. *14th century polychromed "Notre-Dame de Tongres"; stained glass, 16th century; in cloister's ante-room *12th-13th century carved wood Holy-Rood. *Beguinage Ste. Catherine and *'Church, 13th century; frescoes, Renaissance furniture; 17th-18th century Beguinage buildings. **Moerepoort" (Porte de Vise'), 1379, restored; Boulevard Leopold military building and remains of 14th century city walls. *Remains of 1st century Roman wall, including W. of town in 10 towers. open country Foundations of a Roman dungeon, 4th century, Market Place recently excavated. Fontaine de Pline, classic style pavilion, rebuilt in 1827. Musee de 1'Hopital St. Jacques; Roman and Medieval objects and sculpture; sculpture by Delcour (Head, Mr. Paul Albert).

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TONGRES Musee communal; Belgo-Roman and Frankish Rue des Dominicains (TONGEREN) objects from local excavations. (Curator, (Cont 'd) Mr. Ulrisc). Archives de la Ville, in Hotel de Ville; records and documents i5th-i8th centuries. Chateau de Betho, 2nd half of 17th century. Outside city walls

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Province of Luxumbourg

ARLON Eglise St. Donat, 17th century, recently enlarged; 18th century frescoes, restored. Cloister of St. Donat; remains of Capuchin monastery, 1625. *Musee Arche'ologique; antiquities from region, 13 Rue de Virton *Roman tombstones, 15th century tabernacle, etc. (Curator, A. Bertrang). Archives de 1'Etat; administrative and judi- In Annex of Hotel cial records of old Duchy of Luxembourg du Gouvernement 14th-18th centuries; other records 13th- Provincial 18th centuries. AUTEL-BAS Church, dating in part from the 10th century. Chateau, 13th century. BASTOGNE *Eglise St. Pierre, 12th-16th centuries, restored 1894; Romanesque tower; nave, 15th century; 12th century altar and *font; murals. Porte de Treve, remains of city walls. Near French border BOUILLON *Castle, 11th century foundations, rebuilt many times; 12th century gate. Muse du Pere Thibault; museum of military history. Archives de la Ville; records and accounts In H8tel de Ville of Duchy of Bouillon, 16th-18th centuries; city and hospital accounts 17th-18th century. DURBUY Chateau d'Ursel, feudal ruins recently restored. Church, 16th-18th centuries. Remains of fortifications. c. 16 kms. N. of HOUFFALIZE *Eglise Ste. Catherine; partly 13th century, restored; *14th century lectern. Bastogne MARCHE-EN-FAMENNE Church, early Gothic; *Baptistery, 1590. 10 kms.N.E.ofJenelle qhapel St. Roche, 1636. Chapel Notre-Dame-de-Grace, 1652. Chapel du Monument, 17th century, remodelled 18th century. 21 kms. N. of ST. HUBERT *Church; 1526-1568; double aisles; 18th century facade and towers; *stalls, 1733; Neufchtteau relics of St .Hubert. Benedictine abbey rebuilt 1729, now reformatory. c. 5 kms. W. of TOHOGNE Church, Romanesque, altered 17th century; Bomal 1,2th century font, 13th century statue of Christ. 12th-18th 8 kms. S.E. of VILLERS-SUR- *Abbaye-de-Villers-devant-0rval; 1935; outstand- Florenville SEMOIS centuries, destroyed, rebuilt ing Cistercian abbey in Belgian. 2 kms.S.ofMarche WAHA *Church, Romanesque, 1051. S.W. of WERIS *Church, 11th century, restored 1913. 6 kms. Durbuy Two Celtic Dolmans.

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Province of Namur

ANDENNE *Collegiate church, rebuilt 1764-78; tomb 20 kms. E. of and reliquary (17th century) of Ste. Namur Begga; rich treasury; *lectern. *Eglise d'Andenelle, called "Eglise.,des c. 1 km. from Sarrazins"; 12th century Romanesque Nave. Andenne 10.4 kms. N.N.W. ANNEVOIE- Chateau de Montpellier, 15th century, re- ROUILLON* stored 1627, completed 1775; Renaissance; of Dinant Park laid out in classical style of 17th century. 2t kms. S. of ANSEREMME "Refuge" of the Abbey of St. Hubert, 16th- 17th century; square tower. Dinant N.W. BOUVIGNES Church, 13th century; 16th century Calvary; c. 1t kms. brass lectern of the 16th century. of Dinant Hotel de Ville, 16th century. CELLES-LEZ- *Church of St. Hadelin, 11th-12th century 71 kms. S.E. of Dinant DINANT Romanesque basilica with three naves and semi-circular apses. *Chateau de Veve (or Weve), rebuilt in 15th Near Celles century; pentagonal fortress with four corner towers. 16th century. 11t kms. N.W. of CHAIRIERE Church; .retable polychrome oak, Bouillon Near Gignee, 10 CIERGNON Chateau Royals summer residence of the S.E. of royal family. kms. Gendron-Celle 14 kms. N.N.E. of CINEY Church, 1613; 10th century Romanesque tower; 11th century Romanesque *crypt; *12th cen- Dinant tury fpnts. *"tour 4 kms. S.W. of CORROY-LE- Chateau, 13th century; seven towers: Gembloux CHATEAU de la chapelle," 15th century; surrounded *by park and moats. 6 kms. N.E. of CRUPET Chateau de Crupat, 15th century stronghold, with separate fortified gateway. Yvoir-sur-Meuse with DINANT *Eglise Notre-Dame, 13th-15th centuries Romanesque north portal; 16th century spire restored after World War I; 14th century retable. Musee des Beaux Arts, 1933; paintings by Rue Leopold Wiertz and other modern Belgian and French artists. Archives de la Ville (City Archives); the Presumably in archives, for the most part destroyed in Hotel de Ville August 1914, were in the process of recon- struction before the out-break of World War II. Premon- 8 kms. S.W. of FLOREFFE *Abbaye de Floreffe (now seminary), stratensian abbey founded 1121; church Namur with original Romanesque transepts; 17th century apse with Gothic windows; *Inter- ior remodelled, 1770-75; 18th century abbey buildings.

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FOSSE *Eglise St. Feuillian, rebuilt 17th century; 14 kms. S.W. of Romanesque tower and crypt, 1153; 12th cen- Namur tury font; 16th century choir stalls. Archives de la Ville (City Archives); documents on parchment from the 14th century; registers, records and accounts. FOY-NOTRE-DAME Church, Renaissance, 1623; *wainscot; *com- 51 kms. E. of partment ceiling with 145 paintings on Dinant wood; *statue of Notre Dame de Foy, 15th century. FRANC-WARET Chateau, 17th-18th centuries; towers and 10 kms. N.E. of subsidiary buildings, 15th-16th centuries; Namur vaulted brick guards' hall; paintings and tapestries. FREYR *Chateau de Freyr, 1637. c. 4 kms. S.W. of Dinant GEMBLOUX Institut Agronomique de l'Etat, University of agricultural sciences; in buildings of Benedictine abbey (1762); (G. Bouck- aert, recteur). HAN-SUR-LESSE Grottoes of Han; discovered 1771. 6t kms. S.W. of Jemelle HASTIERE-PAR- *Church, Romanesque Basilica, 1033-35; early 7t kms. S.W. of DELA Gothic choir (1264); destroyed 1793, re- Dinant built, late 19th century. MARCHE-LES- Church, 14th century; enclosed in former 7t kms. E, of DAMES Cistercian nunnery (now school); "Notre Namur Dame du Vivier," statue, 13th century; "Adoration of Magi," gilt wooden sculpture, 15t4 century. Museum and King Albert I Memorial,. MAREDSOUS Benedictine Abbey, modern building in 12 kms. N.W. of Gothic style, 1873-76; three 12th cen- Dinant tury bas-reliefs in cloister. Arclhives de l'Abbaye de Saint Benoit (Archives of the Abbey of Saint Benoit), 1873-76; records of the Abbeys of Florennes, St. Gerard, Aywieres, Joneffe. METTET Chateau de Thozee; collection of paintings 9 kms. S.S.W. of and engravings by F. Rops, Fosse-lez-Namur NAMUR (NAMEN) CHURCHES **Cathedrale St. Aubain, 1751; *13th century belfry with Place St. Aubain chime; **Treasury wish *reliquary and other ecclesiastical objects. **St. Loup, 1621-45; vaulting, sculpture. Rue du College St. Jean Baptiste, 15th century; 17th century tower, Bar- Marche aux Legumes oque furniture. *Couvent des Soeurs de Notre-Dame; **Treasury with gold- Rue Emile Cuvelier smith work by Hugo d'Oignies. Notre-Dame des Recollets, rebuilt 18th century; tombs. Rue St. Nicolas

HOUSES Refuge de 1'Abbaye de Floreffe, Baroque.

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NAMUR (NAMEN)(Cont'd) - HOUSES Old Houses of Tanners; characteristic dwellings for workers of important local industry.

MONUMENTS Hotel du Gouvernement Provincial, 1730; partly former Place St. Aubain Bishopric; contains modern paintings and sculpture. Athenee royal; high school and college; courtyard 1611. Rue du College Belfry; 14th century. Rue Emile Cuvelier Porte du Grognon, 17th century. Chemin de Halage Donjon de la Citadelle; rebuilt 17th-18th century on earlier remains. Hospice St. Gelles, 16th-17th centuries; chapel with tomb. Boulevard Ad Aquam

CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS Grand Seminaire and Archives of the Bishopric; Library with In Bishopric, Rue 14th century Apocalypse and Archives with some 16th-18th du Seminaire century records. **Musee Archeologique; Frankish and Belgo-Roman antiquities; In 16th century gems, glassware and fa!ence, *five guild insignia. Meat-Hall, Rue des Bouchers Musee des Beaux-Arts, part of art collection formerly in In 17th century Musee Archeologique. Hotel de Croix,Rue Joseph Saintraint Private Collection of M. Jean Grafe; modern art. Place du Chapitre *Archives de l'Etat; archives and records of Namur from 45 Rue d'Arquet 12th-19th centuries. Collbge de Notre-Dame de la Paix; in library, rare books and bindings. Muse Diocesain; art of the Meuse valley, goldsmiths work, Place du Chapitre

PERSONNEL F. Courtoy, Conservateur, Musee Archeologique, and Archiv- ist, Archives de 1'Etat, 45 Rue d'Arquet. Ed. de Pierpont, chairman Societe Archeologique de Namur, Mus~e des Beaux Arts, Rue Joseph Saintraint. Chanoine Jean Schmitz, Conservateur, Musee discesain, Place du Chapitre. ORP Church, dating in part from the 8th and 9th centuries. RHI SNES Ferme de la Falize; (farm within the ram- 6 kms. N.W. of parts of a Renaissance castle). Namur ROC HEFORT Grottoes of Rochefort. 26 kms. W. of Jemelle Abbaye de St. Remy, 17th-18th centuries; 2 kms. N. of Gothic door. Rochefort of ST. GERARD Abbay of St. Gerard, or Brogne. founded 6 kms. S.E. c. 919; present buildings mostly 18th Fosse century. SOMBREFFE Chiteau, 13th century fortress. 8i kms. S.W. of Gembloux and 4 kms. S.W. of Corroy-le-Grand

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SPONTIN Chateau, medieval castle; rebuilt, 1622; c. 12 kms. N.E. restored in 19th century; 13th century of Dinant keep; (owner, Baron Edouard de Pierpont). Church, 15th century; 14th century tombstones of the Beaufort-Spontin family. SPY Grottoes, site of prehistoric finds. 12 kms. W. of Namur WALCOURT *Eglise de St. Materne; Gothic; Romanesque 10 kms. N.W. of *tower; *rood-loft, 1531; *Treasury: Philippeville Romanesque Virgin of wood, venerated; reliquary statue of Virgin called "de la Tresorerie," 14th century, reliquary double Cross, 13th century. WALZIN *Chateau de Walzin, 13th century, destroyed On the Lesse River 1554; Renaissance wing added 1581, en- near Purfooz larged 1883. WAULSORT Ch'teau; former Benedictine abbey; Abbot's 86 kms. S.W. of house completed 1621, altered mid-17th Dinant century; farmyard, 1727; terraced gardens.

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57-52 B.C. Conquest of northern Gaul by Julius Caesar. The country hitherto peopled by the Celts.

3rd-4th Struggle between the Romans and the Teutonic tribes (Franks and Alemanni). century 358 The Salic Franks settle in Taxandria (Campine).

5th century Whole basin of the Scheldt colonized by the Franks. Frankish King Clovis makes Tournai his capital.

6th-7th Growth of Christianity after conversion of Clovis (496). century 843 Division of the Carolingian empire: the region west of the Scheldt passes to France, east of the Scheldt passes to Lorraine.

10th-lith Division into small feudal states: the counties of Flanders and Artois, century Hainault, Namur and Luxembourg, the duchies of Brabant and Limbourg, the episcopal principality of Liege., the barony of Malines and the margravate of Antwerp. l2th-l4th Growth of the communes. Defeat of the French nobility by Flemish workers century at Courtrai (1302, Battle of the Spurs). Democratic city-communities.

1384 Flanders, Artois and Malines pass to the house of Burgundy, which rules most of the country during the 15th century.

1419-67 Reign of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. Courtly culture.

1477 Death of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. Marriage of Charles' daughter, Mary of Burgundy, to Maximilian of Austria, afterwards Emperor of' Germany. Throne of Burgundy passes to the House of Hapsburg.

1519-55 Emperor Charles V, grandson of Maximilian, rules the Low Countries and Spain.

1555-99 Reign of Philip t1, King of Spain. Secession of the Low Countries under Williaml of 0range The seven Protestant provinces of the North Netherlands (later Holland) declare their independence (1576), while the Catholic provinces in the South (the present Belgium) remain under Spanish rule.

1599-1633 Regency of Archduke Albert and Archduchess Isabella. Flourishing culture of the Rubens period.

1714 Belgium is transferred to Austria (after the War of Spanish Succession), and governed by Imperial Stadtholders.

1715 Treaty "de la Barriere" which prohibits the use of the Scheldt in Nether- lands territory to-the haven of Antwerp, (and consequently causes ruin to this city and depression in trade for Belgium, which may explain low conditions of art life during this period).

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1765-90 Reign of Joseph II. Public discontent is expressed in the Declaration of Independence by the Belgian provinces (1790).

1794 Belgium falls to France, through the French victory at Fleurus.

1815 The Congress of Vienna reunites Belgium and Holland as the "Kingdom of the Netherlands", with William of Orange as King William I..

1830 Belgium revolts and declares its independence.

1831 Leopold I, prince oe Saxe-Coburg, proclaimed King of Belgium. Promulgation of the Constitution.

1839 Treaty of London, between the Great European powers, guarantees the independence of Belgium.

1865 Leopold II succeeds his father as King.

1908 The Congo Free State becomes a Belgian colony.

1909 Albert I succeeds his uncle, Leopold II.

1914 Belgium is invaded by Germany.

1919 Belgium signs the Treaty of Versailles.

1940 Germany invades Belgium.

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A. Guide-books

BAEDEKER, KARL: Belgium and Luxembourg. London, New York, 1931. Handbook for Travel- lers. (Careful use is recommended regarding opinions on German de- structions during World.War I.) GIBSON, HUGH: Belgium (New York 1939). Belgique et Luxembourg, "Guides bleus" series (Paris 1920), in French. Belgium & Luxembourg, Blue Guides series (London 1929). Handbook to Belgium, Ward, Lock & Co., London 1911.

B. Books in foreign languages

ROOSES, MAX: Flandre (Ars Una). Paris, s.d. (also an English translation). FIERENS-GEVAERT, H.: Histoire de l'Art Flamand. Brussels, 1917-18. CLEMEN, PAUL: Belgische Kunstdenkmbler, 2 vols. Munich, 1923. FIERENS, PAUL: L'Art en Belgique du Moyen Age a nos Jours. Brussels, 1939. GRAUL, RICHARD: Alt-Flandern. Munich, 1915. MICHEL, EDOUARD: Abbayes et Monasteres de Belgique. Brussels, 1923. PARENT, PAUL: L'Architecture des Pays-Bas Meridionaux aux 1 6 e, 1 7 e, et 1 8e Sicles. Paris and Brussels, 1926. LAURENT, MARCEL: L'Architecture et la Sculpture au Belgique. Paris and Brussels, 1926. RAHIR, EUGENE: Les Musees de nos Provinces, Brussels, 1926. FIORENS-GEVAERT, H. ET FIERENS, P.: Histoire de la Peinture flamande des origines jusqu'a la fin du XVe si 4 cle, 3 vols. Brussels, 1927-29. FRIEDLANDER, MAX J.: Die Altniederlandische Malerei, 14 vols. Berlin, Leiden, 1924-37. OLDENBOURG, R.: Die Flamische Maleroi des 17. Jahrhunderts. Berlin, 1918. HYMANS, HENRY: Belgische Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts. Leipzig, 1906. PIERRON, SANDER: La Sculpture en Belgique, 1830-1930. Btussels, 1930. COLIN, PAUL: La Peinture Belge depuis 1830. Brussels, 1930.

C. Books in English

B.fANGWYN, FRANK, and STOKES, HUGH: Belgium. London, 1916. FRY, ROGER: Flemish Art. London, 1927. BUMPUS, T.F.: Cathedrals and Churches of Belgium. 1909. FROMENTIN, E.: The old Masters of Belgium and Holland, Boston, 1882. RANDOLPH, W.: The Churches of Belgium. London, 1919. CONWAY, MARTIN: The Van Eycks.and their Followers. New York, 1921. BODE, W. VON: Great Masters of Dutch and Flemish Painting (Trans. by M. L. Clark). London, 1909. MICHEL, E.: Flemish Painting in the 17th century (Trans. by P. Montagu-Pollock). Paris, 1939. MATHER, FRANK J., ".: Western European Painting of the Renaissance. New York, 1939. DELEN, A. J. and LECLERCa, RENE: Guide to the Belgian Museums, etc. Antwerp. (Also in French.)

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INDEX

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Aerschot (Aarschot) . Damme ...... 26 Aertselaer .. Deynze ...... S28 Alost (Aalst) . . . Dieghem ...... S 18 Alsemberg ...... Diest ...... S 18 Amay ...... Dilbeek ...... 19

Andenne ...... Dinant ...... S 46

Annevoie-Rouillon . . . Dixmude ...... 26

Anseremme...... Dolhain ...... 39

Antoing ...... Durbuy ...... S 45

Antwerp (Anvers) . . .

Antwerp, Province of . Elewyt ...... 19 Arlon . . Ellicum ...... S42 Assche Enghien ...... S 34 Ath . . Esquelines ...... S 35 Attre . . Audenarde (Oudenaarde) Flandre Occidentale, Province of S 23 Aulne . . Flandre Orientale, Province of S28 ...... Autel-bas Flobeca ...... 35 Averbode Floreffe ...... Fontaine-L'Eveque . . . Bastogne . . . . Fosse ...... Beaumont .. Foy-Notre-Dame . . . . Beersel . . . . . Franc-Waret ...... Beloeil .. . . . Freeren ...... Berthem . . . . . Freyr ...... Beverenwaes . . . Fur es ...... Binche . . . . . Gaesbeek . . . . . Blankenberghe . . Gembloux ...... Blaton .. Bodeghem-St. Mart in . Gerpinnes ...... Gheel (Geel) . . . . Bonne-Esperance . Bonsecours . . . Ghent (Gand or Gent) Glabbeek-Zuurbempde Bouillon . . . . Boussu .. Grammont ...... Bouvignes . . . . Grimberghen ...... Brabant, Province of Groenendael ...... 12 Braine-le-Chateau Haekendover ...... 34 Braine-le-Comte Hainaut, Province of Brecht . . . Hal ...... Broechem ...... 7 Ham-sur-Heure . . Bruges ...... 23 Hannut . . . . . Brussels ...... 12 Han-sur-Lesse . . Harlebeke . . . . Cappellen ...... 7 Hasselt . . . . . Celles-lez-Dinant ...... 46 Hastiere-par-De la Chairiere ...... 46 Haute-Flone . . . Charleroi . :...... 34 Havre ...... Chievres ...... 34 Heigne-sous-Jumet Chimay ...... 34 Herent ...... 46 Ciergnon ...... Ierenthals . . . 46 Ciney ...... Hoeylaert ...... 46 Corroy-le-Chateau . . Hoogstraeten . . Cortenbosch ...... 42 Houffalize . . . Cortrijck-Dutzel 18 (Kortrijk -Dutsel). Huy ...... Courtrai (Kortrijk) ...... 25 Crupet ...... 46 Jodoigne ...... Cumptich ...... 18 Curange ...... 42 Laerne ...... - 54 -

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La Gleize . . . .. St. Amand-lez-Puers ...... 10 Leau (Zoutleeuw) St. Gerard ...... 48 Leefdael . . . . St. Ghislain ...... 37 Les Ecaussines . . St. Hubert ...... 45 Lessines . .. St. Nicolas (St. Nikl aas ) . . . . 1 Liege ...... St. Severin-en-Condrc)Z ...... 41 Liege, Province of St. Trond (St. Truide n) ...... 43 Lierre ...... Saventhem ...... 21 Limbourg, Province o Seneffe...... 37 Lisseweghe . . . . Sichem ...... 21 Lobbes .. . Soignies ...... 37 Lokeren ...... Solre-sur-Sambre ...... 37 Lombeek-Not r-Dame Sombreffe ...... 48 Looz (Borgloon) . . Spa ...... 41 Louvain (Leuven) Spiennes ...... 37 Luxembourg, province Spontin ...... 49 Spy ...... 49 Machelen . . . . . Stave lot ...... 41 Maeseyck (Maaseik) Malines (Mechelen) Termonde (Dendermonde) Malmedy ...... Tervueren ...... Marche-en-Famenne Tessenderloo .. Marche-les-Dames . Theux ...... Maredsous . . . . . Thielt ...... Mariemont Thourout ...... Menin ...... Thuin ...... Mespelaere . . . . Tirlemont (Thienen) . . Mettet ...... Tohogne ...... Modave ...... Tongerloo ...... Mons ...... Tongres (Tongeren) . . Montaigu (Scherpenheuve) . Tournai (Doornik) . . . Montignies-St. Chris tophe Trazeignies ...... Morlanwelz . . Turnhout ...... Namur (Namen) . . . Namur, Province of Uccle ...... 22 Neeroeteren . . . . Neuville-en-Coudroz Val-Notre-Dame . . . Ninove . . . . . Verviers ...... Nivelles . . . Villers-la-Ville . . Villers-sur-Semois Ordingen . . . . . Vilvorde ...... Orp ...... Vise ...... Orp-le-grand . . . Vorsselaer .. Ostende (Oostende) Otrange and Lowaige Waha ...... Oydonck (Hooidonk) Walcourt ...... Walzin ...... Perck . . . . . Waterloo ...... Poperinghe . . Watervliet ...... Postel ... Waulsort ...... Weris ...... Remouchamps ...... Renaix (Ronse) Wervieg (Wervik) ...... Westerloo ...... Rhisnes ...... Wezeren ...... Rixensart ...... Rochefort . . . Rotselaer . . . Xhignesse ...... Roulers . . Rumbeke. . . Ypres ...... Ryckhoven . . Zedelghem Rymenam ......