20 Sights in Namur, Belgium (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Namur, Belgium! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Namur. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
Sightseeing Tours in Namur1. Citadel of Namur
The Citadel of Namur is a fortress in the Walloon capital city of Namur, at the confluence of the Sambre and Meuse rivers. It is originally from the Roman era, but has been rebuilt several times. Its current form was designed by Menno van Coehoorn, and improved upon by Vauban after the siege of 1692. It has been classified as a Wallonia Major Heritage site. Its highest point sits at 190 metres (620 ft). Together with those at Dinant, Huy and Liège, the Citadel of Namur forms part of the so-called Meuse Citadels.
2. Abbaye de Marche-les-Dames
The Abbey of Marche-les-Dames is a monastic building founded in 1103 and suppressed in 1796. The abbey was located in the Marche-les-Dames section of the municipality of Namur, Belgium. The community of nuns became affiliated to the Cistercian order a century after the foundation of their convent.
Wikipedia: Abbaye de Marche-les-Dames (FR), Heritage Website
3. Église Saint-Loup
The Church of Saint-Loup is a Roman Catholic church located in the centre of the city of Namur (Belgium). In Baroque style, it was built in the seventeenth century as the church of Saint-Ignace in the service of the adjoining Jesuit college.
Wikipedia: Église Saint-Loup de Namur (FR), Website, Heritage Website
4. African museum of Namur
Founded in 1912, the African Museum in Namur, communicating under the name MusAfrica, is a rich cultural institution in the Belgian museum landscape. It is currently closed, due to renovation and expansion work. It is scheduled to reopen in 2024.
5. Cathédrale Saint-Aubain
St. Aubin's Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Namur, Belgium, and the country's only cathedral in academic Late Baroque style. It was the only church built in the Low Countries as a cathedral after 1559, when most of the dioceses of the Netherlands were reorganized. It is classified as part of Wallonia's Major Heritage by the Walloon Region.
6. Fresque des Wallons
The Fresque des Wallons is a trompe-l'oeil mural located in the "Jardins du Maïeur" of the town hall of Namur, Belgium. The painting, with a surface area of 330 m2, was carried out by CitéCréation in 2004. Restored and expanded in 2018, the artistic work refers to some 250 illustrious Walloons and to the ancient and recent history of Wallonia.
7. Église Saint-Berthuin
The Church of Saint-Berthuin is a Roman Catholic church located in Malonne, near Namur, Belgium. The old Romanesque abbey church of Malonne Abbey, an important monastery in the region, was replaced by the current church, in baroque style, for the tower and nave part, between 1651 and 1653. Due to lack of money, the Romanesque choir remained in place until 1722 when it was also transformed. Formerly an abbey church, it became a parish church when the canons of the Order of St. Augustine had to leave the premises during the French Revolution.
8. Église Saint-Joseph
The Church of St. Joseph is a Roman Catholic church located in the center of the city of Namur, Belgium. it dates from the seventeenth century. Church of the convent of the Carmelite Fathers, it became the parish of Saint-Joseph in 1818. The church was closed in 2008 for security reasons. After the restoration of the roof, it reopened in 2018. Worship has now resumed since the arrival of a new parish priest in September 2022.
Wikipedia: Église Saint-Joseph de Namur (FR), Heritage Website
9. Arsenal
The Arsenal of Namur is a 100-metre-long building located on the banks of the Sambre in Namur (Belgium). Built at the end of the seventeenth century, it serves as a university restaurant for the University of Namur. It is classified as a major heritage site in Wallonia.
10. Espace Culturel d'Harscamp
The church of Notre-Dame d'Harscamp, formerly Saints-Pierre-et-Paul, located on rue Saint-Nicolas, in the heart of old Namur, is a Renaissance-style church, built in 1750. Classified as a major heritage site in Wallonia in 1936, it was deconsecrated in 2004. The church is now used for its cultural activities under the name 'Harscamp Cultural Space'. Since January 2022, an operating concession has been granted to a collective. The space has been renamed La Nef.
Wikipedia: Église Notre-Dame d'Harscamp (FR), Heritage Website
11. Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste
The Church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste is a Catholic religious building located in the historic heart of the city of Namur. Built in the thirteenth century, it was restored in 1547, 1616 and, more recently, in 1890. The church is now at the service of the Catholic parish community of Saint-Jean-Baptiste-Saint-Loup.
Wikipedia: Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Namur (FR), Heritage Website
12. Parlement wallon
The Hospice Saint-Gilles is a hospital of medieval origin and rebuilt during the Renaissance, located on the banks of the Meuse, at the start of the rue Notre-Dame, in Namur (Belgium). Built and opened as a hospital in the thirteenth century, it became and remained a hospice until 1965. Completely renovated, it has been the seat of the Parliament of Wallonia since 1998.
13. Église Saints-Pierre-et-Paul
The Church of Saints-Pierre-et-Paul d'Erpent is a Roman Catholic church in Erpent, Belgium. The church was erected by the Augustinian canons of the abbey of Géronsart in 1771. It replaces an old Romanesque church demolished in 1750 by Canon François Mouchon, the village priest at the time.
14. Palais Provincial
The Provincial Palace of Namur is a Renaissance-style building located on the Place Saint-Aubain, in Namur, Belgium. Built as the episcopal palace of the diocese of Namur in the middle of the eighteenth century, it became, in 1814, the seat of government and administration of the province of Namur, which it still is today (2014).
15. Fort d'Émines
The Fort d'Emines is one of nine forts built as part of the Fortifications of Namur in the late 19th century in Belgium. It was built between 1888 and 1892 according to the plans of General Henri Alexis Brialmont. Contrasting with the French forts built in the same era by Raymond Adolphe Séré de Rivières, the fort was built exclusively of unreinforced concrete, a new material, rather than masonry. In 1914 the fort was heavily bombarded by German artillery in the Battle of Namur. Unlike seven of the nine Namur forts, Émines was never upgraded to become part of the fortified position of Namur. Instead, it became a supply and munitions depot. The fort is now abandoned on private property.
16. Tour Saint-Aubain
The Saint-Aubain Tower is a Romanesque religious building, surmounted by a Gothic spire, located behind the cathedral of Namur (Belgium), without being attached to it. A vestige of the old collegiate church of Namur, the campanile is considered to be the "bell tower" of the cathedral built in the eighteenth century, and houses the carillon of Namur, a set of 49 bells.
17. Parc Louise Marie
The Louise-Marie Park is a green space in the Belgian city of Namur. Named after Louise-Marie d'Orléans, wife of Leopold I and first queen of the Belgians, the park is bordered, all along its south-east side, by the street called Rempart de la Vierge, a reminder of its origin.
18. Chapelle d'Hastimoulin
The Chapel of Hastimoulin is a former religious building of the thirteenth century located in Saint-Servais, now a suburb of Namur (Belgium). Listed and renovated at the end of the twentieth century, it is no longer used for worship.
19. Belfry of Namur
The Belfry of Namur, also called the Tour Saint-Jacques, is an historical building in Namur, Belgium. The tower, constructed in 1388 as part of the city wall, became a belfry in 1746. It is one of the 56 belfries of Belgium and France classified by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site because of their importance as a representation of civic architecture in Europe and their testimony to the rising and influence of the city.
20. Musée des Arts Décoratifs
The Hôtel de Groesbeeck-de Croix, which houses the Museum of Decorative Arts, is a listed building located in the city of Namur in Belgium, built in the thirteenth century and refurbished in the mid-eighteenth century by the architect Jean-Baptiste Chermanne.
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