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59 km (37 miles) SE of Waterloo.
Road Map D3. * 111,200.
n Square Léopold, Namur; (081)
246449. _ Fêtes de Wallonie
(Sep). ∑ namurtourisme.be
Transport
£ @ 4

work. Set in an 18th-century
townhouse, Musée Provincial
Félicien Rops has a collection
of about 3,000 paintings, prints
The lofty nave and unusual sandstone ceiling at the Église St-Loup and draw ings by Rops. It show-
cases a large selection of the
R Église St-Loup deliciously funereal. It is now best, assisted by audio guides
Rue du Collège. used for concerts. and multimedia presentations.
∑ eglisesaintloup.be
One of the great Baroque E Musée Provincial E Musée des Arts Décoratifs
churches of Belgium, the Église Félicien Rops Rue Saintraint 3. Tel (081) 248723.
St-Loup was built for the Jesuits Rue Fumal 12. Tel (081) 776755. Open Call or see website for opening
between 1621 and 1645. Its Open Jul–Aug: 10am–6pm daily; hours. & 0 = ∑ ville.namur.be
striking façade, adorned by Sep–Jun: 10am–6pm Tue–Sun. The magnificent 18th-century
muscular banded pillars, gives Closed 24, 25 & 31 Dec, 1 Jan. & 9 Groesbeeck de Croix mansion
way to an equally robust interior ∑ museerops.be has been preserved and res-
with banded pillars of coloured A gifted Symbolist artist, Félicien tored in Enlightenment and
marble and a contrasting ceiling Rops was born in Namur. He is Louis XV styles to provide a
of carved sandstone. The French known for his vividly imagined sympathetic backdrop for an
poet Charles Baudelaire, a friend compositions, often macabre impressive collection of
of the Namur artist Félicien Rops and sacrilegious. Rops moved paintings, sculpture, antique
(1833–98), suffered a stroke here to Paris in 1874, where he led a fur niture, tapestries, gold and
in 1866, the year before his colourful life among the avant- silverwork, clocks and objets
death; he was fascinated by the garde literary set and became d’art. Outside the mansion is
church, which he found to be a successful illustrator of their a pleasant formal garden.

Namur
Train Station PLACE
1 The Citadelle SQUARE LÉOPOLD LÉOPOLD
2 Musée Archéologique PLACE DE LA STATION RU E D EW EZ
de Namur RUE D E S C R O I S I E R S B O U L E V A R D C A U C H Y
AVE DE LA GARE
R U E D ES
3 Musée Provincial des R GODEFROID Hôtel R U E P É P I N
Arts Anciens RUE DE BRUXELLES R ST-JACQUES C A R M E S RUE DE FER de Ville R DES BOURGEOIS
GRAFÉ
4 Église St-Loup RUE JOSEPH Musée Provincial LANCIERS
des Arts Anciens
5 Musée Provincial Cathédrale R LELIEVRE Église R ST -NICOLAS
Theâtre
Félicien Rops St-Aubain PLACE St-Loup R EMILE CUVELIER BRABANT
R DU PREMIER R JEAN- BAPTISE BRUNELL
Royal
6 Musée des Arts Musée des Arts R DU COLLEGE R DE L’ANGE R JULIE BILLIART
ST-AUBAIN
Décoratifs Décoratifs Musée Archéologique
de Namur
Musée Provincial R FUMAL BLV D ISABELLE ARDENNES
Pont de Félicien Rops
L’Eveche RUE DE BRASSEURS PONT RUE DU Pont de
R DU PONT DES
Sambre France
R U E B O R D D E L ’ E A U
RUE CATHERINE DE PLACE
SAVOIE ST-HILAIRE
BLVD BARON LOU I S
R U E M A Z Y RUE MAZY
AVENUE JEAN L E R
HUART
ROUTE DES CANONS The Citadelle RUE NOTRE DAME Meuse Q U A I D E M E U S E RUE DES BLUETS
Fort
AV BARON DE MOREAU
d’Orange Pont de
Parc d’Attractions ROUTE MERVEI LLEUSE Jambes
Reine-Fabiola AV DE LA PLANTE BLVD DE LA MEUSE AVE DU BOU RGMESTRE 0 metres 300
R TILLIEUX
JEAN MAT ERNE
0 yards
300
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