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Saint-Martin Abbey, Tournai. Coordinates: 50°36′11″N 3°23′13″E. Preserved side of medieval pledge corridor. Side of the abbot's palace, now city hall. The Saint-Martin Abbey (French: abbaye Saint-Martin) in the historic center of Tournai, in the Wallonia region of Belgium is a former Benedictine abbey, dating back to the 7th century.
Convent of the Poor Clares, a former "Clos des Récollets": facades, roofs and cladding of the wing of the building and the sidewalk along the facade to the quays and the creation of a protection zone (nl) (fr) Tournai. quai Taille-Pierres n°s 27-27b. 50°36′08″N 3°23′55″E / .
Tournai, known as Tornacum, was a place of minor importance in Roman times, a stopping place where the Roman road from Cologne on the Rhine to Boulogne on the coast crossed the river Scheldt. It was fortified under Emperor Maximian in the 3rd century AD, [6] when the Roman limes was withdrawn to the string of outposts along the road.
The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Tournai, Belgium, is an art museum. At the beginning of the 20th century, Henri Van Cutsem, a Belgian art collector, offered his collection of art to the city of Tournai in 1905. The collection contained important works of important 19th century French painters like Manet, Monet, Seurat and others.
Additionally, hospitals where younger members of the Belgian royal family were born are indicated with an asterisk (*). UMC Sint-Pieter / CHU Saint-Pierre, City of Brussels. UVC Brugmann / CHU Brugmann site Paul Brien, Schaerbeek. Kliniek Sint-Jan / Clinique Saint-Jean site Kruidtuin / Botanique, City of Brussels. CHIREC Delta Hospital, Auderghem.
De miraculis sanctae Mariae Laudunensis was written by a monk who gives his name in the text as Herman. This author, often referred to as Herman of Laon, has increasingly been identified with the Herman of Tournai, abbot of Tournai, who wrote Restauratio sancti Martini Tornacensis (The Restoration of the Monastery of St Martin of Tournai).
Tournai Cathedral. The Cathedral of Our Lady (French: Notre-Dame de Tournai; Dutch: Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Doornik), or Tournai Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral, see of the Diocese of Tournai in Tournai, Belgium. It has been classified both as a Wallonia major heritage site since 1936 [5] and as a World Heritage Site since 2000.
Saint Martin (French: Saint-Martin; Dutch: Sint Maarten) is an island in the northeast Caribbean, approximately 300 km (190 mi) east of Puerto Rico.The 87 km 2 (34 sq mi) island is divided roughly 60:40 between the French Republic (53 km 2 or 20 sq mi) [1] and the Kingdom of the Netherlands (34 km 2 or 13 sq mi), [2] but the Dutch part is more populated than the French part.