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BEL GIUM AND L UXEMBOURG A T A GLANCE  55

Antwerp (see pp148–59) is Belgium’s second biggest city, a
major European port and an industrial hub. However, its historic
centre gives little indication of this. Its primary landmark is the
magnificent Gothic Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal, whose
dainty spire soars above the stump of its uncompleted twin.

Oostende
Antwerp
Bruges Geel
The River Semois (see pp232–3) snakes through the
Ghent ANTWERP, FLEMISH BRABANT Belgian provinces of Luxembourg and Namur, past a
AND LIMBURG charmed landscape of forested hills. Walkers, canoeists
WEST AND EAST FLANDERS Aalst (See pp144–73) and motorists come to enjoy the tranquillity and the
(See pp108–43) Hasselt breathtakingly spectacular views.
Ypres Leuven
Kortrijk BRUSSELS
(See pp56–101)
Waterloo
Tournai Liège
Verviers
WESTERN WALLONIA
(See pp180–95) Namur
Mons Charleroi EASTERN
CENTRAL WALLONIA
WALLONIA (See pp216–37)
(See pp196–215)
Marche-en-
Dinant Famenne

Bastogne

Neufchâteau
GRAND DUCHY
OF LUXEMBOURG
(See pp238–57)
Arlon
Luxembourg
City

Luxembourg City (see pp244–9) has
Waterloo (see pp200–201) has a refined elegance befitting the
been preserved as a battlefield capital of the Grand Duchy. This is
site since the defeat of exemplified by the large central
Napoleon in 1815. The man- square named Place Guillaume II,
made hill of the Butte du Lion with its eques trian statue of the
is its central landmark. grand duke of the 1840s, William II.

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