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59 km (37 miles) SE of Waterloo.

Road Map D3. * 107,000.

£ @ 4 n Square Léopold,

Namur; (081) 246449. _ Fêtes

de Wallonie (Sep). http://www.

namurtourisme.be

The lofty nave and unusual sandstone ceiling at the Église St-Loup

E Groesbeeck de

Croix Museum

Rue Saintraint 3. Tel (081) 248720.

# 10am–12:30pm, 1:15–5pm Tue–

Sun. &

The magnificent 18th-century

Groesbeeck de Croix mansion

has been preserved and res-

tored in Enlightenment and

Louis XV styles to provide a

sympathetic backdrop for an

impressive collection of paint-

ings, sculpture, antique fur-

niture, tapestries, gold and

silverwork, clocks and objets

d’art. Outside the mansion

is a pleasant formal garden.

R Église St-Loup
Rue du Collège. http://www.eglise
saintloup.be
One of the great Baroque
churches of Belgium, the
Église St-Loup was built for
the Jesuits between 1621
and 1645. Its striking façade,
adorned by muscular banded
pillars, gives way to an equally
robust interior with banded
pillars of coloured marble
and a contrasting ceiling of
carved sandstone. The French
poet Charles Baudelaire, a
friend of the Namur artist
Félicien Rops (1833–98), suf-
fered a stroke here in 1866,
the year before his death; he

E Musée Provincial

Félicien Rops

Rue Fumal 12. Tel (081) 776755.

# Jul–Aug: 10am–6pm daily; Sep–

Jun: 10am–6pm Tue–Sun. & 9

http://www.museerops.be

A gifted Symbolist artist,

Félicien Rops was born in

Namur. He is known for his

vividly imagined compositions,

often macabre and sacrile-

gious. Rops moved to Paris in

1874, where he led a colour-

ful life among the avant-garde

literary set and became a

successful illustrator of their

work. Set in an 18th-century

townhouse, Musée Provincial

Félicien Rops has a collection

of about 3,000 paintings, prints

and draw ings by Rops. It show-

cases a large selection of the

best, assisted by audio guides

was fascinated by the church, and multimedia presentations.

which he found to be deli-

ciously funereal. It is now

used for concerts.

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NAMUR

The Citadelle 1

Église St-Loup 5

Groesbeeck de

Croix Museum 7

Le Trésor d’Oignies 3

Musée Archéologique

de Namur 2

Musée Provincial des

Arts Anciens 4

Musée Provincial

Félicien Rops 6