Belfries of Belgium and France

Fifty six Belfry S of Belgium and France are registered on the Liste of the world heritage of UNESCO.

This inheritance is composed of 32 belfries of Flanders and Wallonia registered in 1999, to which UNESCO added, in 2005, 23 belfries of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Picardy more that of Gembloux. This group from now on is named belfries of Belgium and France .

The criteria which determined their inscription are the following:

the belfries of Belgium are exceptional examples of a form of urban architecture adapted to the political and spiritual requirements of their time;

the belfries of Belgium represent with the Moyen-âge the lately acquired independence of the cities and common vis-a-vis to the feudal mode .

Belgium

Walloon region

Hainaut

Beffroi of the Town hall of Binche
Beffroi of the Town hall of Charleroi
Beffroi of Mons
Beffroi of Thuin
Beffroi of Turned

Province of Namur

Belfry of Namur
Belfry of Gembloux

Flemish Area

Province of Antwerp

Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal with Antwerp
Town hall of Antwerp
Old communal house of Herentals
Old market with belfry with Malignant
Malignant Turn of Saint-Rombaut to
communal House and belfries with Ivy

Flanders-Western

Belfry and market of Bruges
Town hall and belfry of Dixmude
Belfry and market with cloths with Ypres
Belfry of Courtrai
Old communal house and its belfry with Lo-Reninge
communal Market and its belfry with Nieuport
Belfry and Town hall of Menin
House of the country and its belfry with Furnes
Town hall, communal market and its belfry with Roulers
Tower of the market or belfry with Tielt

Flanders-Eastern

Town hall and its belfry with Audenarde
Town hall and belfry of Termonde ()
Belfry and house échevinale of Alost ()
Town hall and belfry of Eeklo
Belfry, market with cloths and old prison of Ghent ()

Brabant-Fleming

Sint-Pieterskerk and its belfry with Leuwen
Sint-Germanuskerk and the communal tower with Tirlemont
Sint-Leonarduskerk with Léau

Limbourg

Onze-Lieve-Lievevrouwebasiliek and the communal tower with Tongres
Town hall and its tower with Saint-Trond

France

Nord-Pas-de-Calais

Northern

Belfry of the town hall of Armentières
Belfry of Bailleul
Belfry of Bergues
Belfry of Cambric
Belfry of the Cateau-Cambrésis - not registered with the world heritage of UNESCO
Belfry of Comines
Belfry of the town hall of Dunkirk
Belfry of Saint-Éloi with Dunkirk
Belfry of Douai
Belfry of Gravelines
Belfry of the Chamber of commerce and of Industry of Lille - not registered with the world heritage of UNESCO
Belfry of the town hall of Lille
Belfry of Loos
Belfry of the old Chamber of commerce of Tourcoing - not registered with the world heritage of UNESCO

Pas-de-Calais

Belfry of Surface-on-the-Lily
Belfry of Arras
Belfry of Béthune
Belfry of Boulogne-sur-Mer
Belfry of Calais
Belfry of Hesdin

Picardy

Somme

Belfry of Abbeville
Belfry of Amiens
Belfry of Doullens
Belfry of Lucheux
Belfry of Street
Belfry of Saint-Riquier

Anecdote

It is to be noticed that there does not exist belfry in the south-east of Belgium. Indeed, in these territories under the Old Mode, the capacity was ecclesiastic (principality-évéché of Liege and abbey principality of Stavelot-Malmedy), and the symbol of communal freedoms was the perron rather than the Beffroi .

See too

Official site of the Belfries registered with UNESCO
French Belfries (Voice of North)
French Belfries (NordMag)
Descriptive of UNESCO
List of the belfries by UNESCO

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