Hamoir

Hamoir (in Walloon Hamwer ) is a common French-speaking of Belgium located in Walloon region in the Province of Liege, in the valley of the Ourthe.

Sections

The commune of Hamoir is made up of four villages:

  • Comblain-the-Turn, which had during eight years its festival of Jazz and where one can see three old mills;
  • Fairon;
  • Filot, fatherland of the type-setter Edouard Senny (1923-1980);
  • Hamoir , administrative center since the fusion of 1977.

It is twinned with the common Frenchwoman of Saulxures-on-Moselotte, chief town of canton of the department of the the Vosges, and with common allemande of Wenigumstadt, in the North-West of the Bavaria.

History

Formerly Hamoir belonged to the Principauté of Stavelot-Malmedy.

Hamoir is the birthplace of the sculptor Baroque Jean LED Court.

External bonds

Official Internet site

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