Tumulus de Pépin of Landen

The tumulus of Pip of Landen is the funerary Tertre of Pépin of Landen. It is located Sinte-Gittersplein at Landen in the the Flemish Brabant in Belgium.

Pip of Landen (580 - 650) was Maire of the palate of Austrasie. Originating in Landen, its property extended to this place.

He lived in old a villa Gallo-Roman and was buried in his field of Landen, but after a few years, its widow made transfer her skin to Nivelles.

excavations undertaken in 1981 with Sinte-Gitterdal, made it possible to update the foundations of old a Chapelle, Crypte of the family of the Pépinides, fallen ruins in 1756 of it. A archaeological Musée preserves the various phases of construction of this vault.

The site of Sinte-Gitterdal was classified like " landscape protégé" by Stopped royal of the April 19th 1978. The ruins of the vault and the Tumulus were both classified " monuments" by royal Decree of the November 17th 1981.

References

Toerisme on the Vlaams-Brabant

External bond

satellite Localization of the tumulus on WikiMapia

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