Mons Attractions
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Beffroi
This 17th C Baroque bell tower stands on a hill high above Mons and contains 47 bells.
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Collégiale Sainte-Waudru
This Brabant Gothic style church dates to the 15th and 16th C. The interior is particularly impressive and the treasury holds fine collection.
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Hornu - Grand-Hornu, Belgium
(Near Mons)
West of Mons is the former mining village known as Hornu. Grand Hornu is a protect monument encompassing the mine and surrounding buildings.
Casteau, Belgium
(Near Mons)
Casteau - SHAPE
The airfield serving SHAPE, the NATO headquarters in nearby Casteau, lies to the southeast of Chièvre.
Cuesmes, Belgium
(Near Mons)
Cuesmes - Van Gogh House
On the edge of the forest stands a little mining cottage where van Gogh occupied a room; this is filled with documents and reproductions of his paintings (no originals).
Van Gogh lived here from 1879 to 1880.
Van Gogh lived here from 1879 to 1880.
Hours
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | Closed | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 |
| Close | 18:00 | 18:00 | 18:00 | 18:00 | 18:00 | 18:00 |
Disabled
Full facilities for persons with disabilities.
Decorative Arts Museum Francois Duesberg
A museum with a collection of clocks dating from the 18th century and other decorative arts like porcelain and silverworks.
Hours
April 1 to December 31
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | Closed | 14:00 | Closed | 14:00 | Closed | 14:00 | 14:00 |
| Close | 19:00 | 19:00 | 19:00 | 19:00 |
Disabled
Full facilities for persons with disabilities.
Guides
Guided tour available as optional extra.
Ducasse de la Trinité
This annual religious event takes place on Trinity Sunday (the first Sunday after Pentecost). Parades and processions celebrate the city's deliverance from the Plague in 1349. An 18th century carriage is drawn by white horses throughout the streets of the town, carrying the relics of Saint Waudru. The saint's skull is carried in a silver reliquary by dozens of girls dressed in Belgian lace.
Museum of Natural History
The Natural History Museum is situated northwest of the City Hall in the Rue des Gaillers. Here can be seen numerous articles of geology, zoology, botany and other scientific disciplines.
Musée du Chanoine Puissant
This museum is situated a little north of the Collégiale Ste-Waudru and is in two buildings: the so-called "Vieux Logis" a brick building of 1550, and the Chapelle Ste-Marguerite (13th C.). On display is the art collection of Canon Edmont Puissant, who made this over to the town in 1930, with pictures, furniture and other interior items as well as the canon's library which includes a Gutenberg bible.
Hours
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | Closed | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 14:00 |
| Close | 18:00 | 18:00 | 18:00 | 18:00 | 18:00 | 18:00 |
Combination ticket for visits to other local museums available.
Groups can vist privately on Mondays and Tuesday mornings upon request.
Parc du Roeulx
A walled rose garden at this 18th C. house is the primary interest on the estate.
Hours
April 8 to September 30
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | 10:00 | 10:00 | Closed | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 |
| Close | 12:00 | 12:00 | 12:00 | 12:00 | 12:00 | 12:00 | |
| Open | 13:30 | 13:30 | 13:30 | 13:30 | 13:30 | 13:30 | |
| Close | 18:00 | 18:00 | 18:00 | 18:00 | 18:00 | 18:00 |
Roisin, Belgium
(Near Mons)
Soignes, Belgium
(Near Mons)
Soignes, 19km/12mi northeast of Mons, arose around an abbey founded in 650 by St Vincentius. Its heavy reliquary, weighing 250kg/551lbs, is carried every Whitsun in a great procession through the town.
Collegiale Saint-Vincent
(Mons)
The building of this massive church dedicated to St Vincent and in the style of Scheldt Romanesque was begun in 965 and completed in the 13th C. Both bays of the choir contain the oldest cross-ribbed vault in Belgium (believed 11th C.). The interior of the church with its two rows of arcades and its gallery is similar to that of the cathedral at Tournai. The most impressive items are undoubtedly the sculpture, the Renaissance choir screen made of marble and stucco, an interment scene in the ambulatory (15th C.), a "Nursing Virgin" (14th C.), and the Baroque choirstalls and pulpit. The great 19th C. shrine of the saint stands in the choir. In the Chapel of St Hubert in the south wall is kept the treasury.
Spiennes, Belgium
(Near Mons)
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