10 Sights in Mons, Belgium (with Map and Images)

Saint Waltrude Collegiate Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Mons, Belgium, named in honour of Saint Waltrude. The church is a notable example of Gothic architecture, and is protected by the heritage register of Wallonia.

Wikipedia: Saint Waltrude Collegiate Church (EN), Heritage Website

The Belfry of Mons is one of the more recent among the belfries of Belgium and France. At a height of 87 metres (285 ft), it dominates the city of Mons, Belgium, which is itself constructed on a hill. This belfry, classified in Belgium since 15 January 1936, belongs to the major cultural patrimony of Wallonia. It was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List on 1 December 1999, for its unique architecture, civic importance, and testimony to the birth of municipal influence and power in the area. It is the only one in Belgium that is constructed in Baroque style.

Wikipedia: Belfry of Mons (EN), Website, Heritage Website

The Mundaneum was an institution which aimed to gather together all the world's knowledge and classify it according to a system called the Universal Decimal Classification. It was developed at the turn of the 20th century by Belgian lawyers Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine. The Mundaneum has been identified as a milestone in the history of data collection and management, and as a precursor to the Internet.

Wikipedia: Mundaneum (EN), Website

The Neolithic flint mines of Spiennes are among the largest and earliest Neolithic flint mines which survive in north-western Europe, located close to the Walloon village of Spiennes, southeast of Mons, Belgium. The mines were active during the mid and late Neolithic between 4,300 and 2,200 BC. Declared to be "remarkable for the diversity of technological solutions used for extraction" the site and its surroundings were inducted into the UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 2000.

Wikipedia: Neolithic flint mines of Spiennes (EN), Website

Jemappes is a sub-municipality of the city of Mons located in the province of Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium. It was a separate municipality until 1977. On 8 June 1870, Flénu was detached from Jemappes, and was later merged into Jemappes in 1971. On 1 January 1977, Jemappes was merged into Mons.

Wikipedia: Jemappes (EN)

The Chapel of Saint-Calixte is a former religious building built in the eleventh century and remodelled in the fourteenth century, located in the historic centre of the city of Mons in Belgium. Chapel of the castle of the Counts of Hainaut. Now deconsecrated, it is part of the Mons Belfry site and can be visited during guided tours.

Wikipedia: Chapelle Saint-Calixte de Mons (FR), Heritage Website

The Church of Sainte-Élisabeth is a religious building located on rue de Nimy, about a hundred meters from the Grand-Place in Mons, Belgium. A chapel built in the fourteenth century gave way to a Gothic building in the sixteenth, then baroque in the eighteenth century. Closed during the French revolutionary period, it became a Catholic parish again in 1803.

Wikipedia: Église Sainte-Élisabeth de Mons (FR), Heritage Website

The Canon Puissant Museum comes from the collection of Canon Edmond Puissant who bequeathed his collection to the city of Mons in 1933. This donation consisted of a collection of objects and two buildings.

Wikipedia: Musée Chanoine Puissant (FR)

The Mons City Hall is a public building located in the city of Mons, in the province of Hainaut (Belgium). Classified as a monument on 30 March 1936, it has been on the list of exceptional heritage of the Walloon Region since 2009.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de ville de Mons (FR), Heritage Website

The remains of the castle enclosure of the former Count of Mons are the remains of fortifications erected towards the end of the twelfth century and located in the centre of the city of Mons in the province of Hainaut (Belgium). They surround the park of the Château.

Wikipedia: Enceinte castrale de l'ancien château comtal de Mons (FR)