🏛️ Flemish Béguinages

Belgium · Europe · Cultural · 50.78°N, 5.47°E

A beguinage, from the French term béguinage, is an architectural complex which was created to house beguines: lay religious women who lived in community without taking vows or retiring from the world.

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Quick facts

Country	Belgium
Continent / region	Europe
List type	🏛️ Cultural heritage site
Coordinates (approx.)	50.78°N, 5.47°E · view on map

Flemish Béguinages is a cultural World Heritage site in Belgium, in Europe. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Flemish Béguinages was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

More sites in Belgium

Historic Centre of Brugge · Grand-Place of Brussels · Stoclet House · Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum · Belfries of Belgium and France · Colonies of Benevolence · The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre and their Environs, La Louvière and Le Roeulx (Hainaut) · Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels) · Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes (Mons) · Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai · Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex · Major Mining Sites of Wallonia.

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