OPEN CHURCHES DAYS
Saturday 31st May and Sunday 1st June 2025
Info and registration
Events Open Churches Days 2025
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31 MAY - 1 JUNE 2025The carillon of Saint-Nicolas Church is one of the first in Belgium. It has 51 bells; the oldest dates back to 1512, and the largest weighs 2750 kg.Guided tour of the carillon at Saint-Nicolas church
Guided tour
01/06/2025
Saint-Nicolas de Myre
7850 Enghien
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31 MAY - 1 JUNE 2025This 16th-century altarpiece from Antwerp is considered to be one of the most beautiful in Belgium. In a series of small sculpted scenes, this altarpiece vividly recounts the life of Mary from conception to the birth of the Christ child.
Guided tour of the altarpiece in Saint-Nicolas Church
Guided tour
01/06/2025
Saint-Nicolas de Myre
7850 Enghien
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31 MAY - 1 JUNE 2025Climbing the tower takes visitors past the beautiful Delahaye organ, the swinging bells and the carillon. A tower visit is always accompanied and only after reservation via the webshop of the municipality : https://webshop.puurs-sint-amands.be/Exhibitions/Overview. After booking, you will receive a confirmation with QR code by e-mail. -
Guided tour
01/06/2025
Saint-Martin
7090 Steenkerque (Braine-le-Comte)
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31 MAY - 1 JUNE 2025This Meulebeek painter, artist, poet, writer and photographer travelled around with his camera from 1910 to 1959, painting the walls of St Amandus church with colourful frescoes and Latin texts that are now hidden under a layer of paint or have disappeared due to major changes to the church in the 1960s. The Open Churches Days are an ideal opportunity to show these treasures to the wider public. The photos were digitised by Peter Raedt who has them in his... -
31 MAY - 1 JUNE 2025Playing games in church ? You can on Sunday 1 June in the Sint-Martinuskerk in Genk-Centrum ! Take up the challenge and play the giant goose board about the life of Moses or that of the apostle Paul. Test your memory with a memo or quartet game. Or is relaxing with a word search really your thing? Looking for action ? Aidez David to defeat the giant Goliath ! Have you heard of Godly Play ? Play a Bible story... -
Free visit
01/06/2025
Saint-Lambert
L-6830 Berbourg (Manternach)
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31 MAY - 1 JUNE 2025The Goylants Chamber Choir, conducted by Bas Groenewoud, will take you on a musical adventure, with the collaboration of the Renaissance wind ensemble Alta Capella Vianensis and organist Richard Vos. The programme includes works by Francesco Guerrero, Theodore Dubois, Giovanni Palestrina, Edvard Grieg, Daan Manneke, Benjamin Britten, Anton Bruckner, Francis Poulenc et Peter Philips. This is the annual Final Concert of May Month in Hanswijk. -
31 MAY - 1 JUNE 2025Choral concert by young people from the Unité Paroissiale. After the performance, drinks open to all. Visitors included.Choir Concert
01/06/2025
Notre-Dame
4340 Villers-l'Evêque (Awans)
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31 MAY - 1 JUNE 2025Around 1350 years ago, Amandus died. As a missionary bishop, he toured the Scheldt valley and realised a first wave of Christianisation in our region. Artworks in St Amandus' church tell his life and legends. Do you know Amandus' contemporaries: the popes, bishops and monks, kings, court masters, pilgrims and saints for whom there was a great devotion at the time? All influenced the Christianisation that Amandus realised in the Scheldt region. They are glowing names such as Pope Gregory... -
31 MAY - 1 JUNE 2025The Ensemble Myosotis is a variable-geometry early music group founded in Brussels in 2023 by recorder player Maureen De Smet and organist Charlène Bertholet. Driven by a shared passion for early music, the ensemble has also set itself the task of promoting Belgium's rich organ heritage. In their new programme, La Suave Melodia, the Ensemble Myosotis explores Italian music from the 16th to the 18th centuries. They perform works by composers such as A. Corelli, A. Falconieri and G. B.... -
31 MAY - 1 JUNE 2025To add lustre to the opening of the treasury extension, an exciting concert will be organised.Singing group Aveland and Harmonie Sint-Cecilia Hoeselt
Concert
01/06/2025
Sint-Stefanus
3730 Hoeselt
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Guided tour
01/06/2025
Saint-Remacle
L-9673 Oberwampach (Wincrange)
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31 MAY - 1 JUNE 2025Historian Xavier Lenaers takes you on a fascinating lecture about the Swiss Guard - the imposing orderly in the church. Did you know that Borgloon too once had its own Swiss Guard ? In his stately uniform, complete with sabre, halberd and inverted Napoleon hat, he exuded authority and authority. His task ? Keeping order during mass and making sure everything went according to the rules. In Tongeren, we know Tony Achtergael as the ‘pikman’, but this fascinating figure also... -
31 MAY - 1 JUNE 2025Standing on the heights of Liège for over a thousand years, the Romanesque church of Saint-Gilles first received the prayers of a community of monks, then those of a parish of miners and finally, today, those of dozens of pilgrims who come to invoke Saint Gilles or to meditate in front of the relics of Blessed Eugénie Joubert. A visit stripped of all encyclopaedic detail, but sprinkled with humour and anecdotes, against a backdrop of popular religion.From top to bottom against a backdrop of popular religion
Guided tour
01/06/2025
Saint-Gilles
4000 Liège
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Guided tour
01/06/2025
Notre-Dame de l'Assomption
L-6555 Bollendorf-Pont (Berdorf)
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31 MAY - 1 JUNE 2025St Leonard's Church... the ‘Art Shrine of Brabant’... unique in Belgium as it houses no less than 21 ‘masterpieces’ recognised by the Flemish Government. Find out more about this monumental Gothic building and its treasures during one of the free guided tours for individual tourists. Our Leeuwse city guides will take you to discover the many retables, statues, paintings and other artefacts. Registration is not necessary. -
Organ concert
01/06/2025
Saint-Lambert
L-6830 Berbourg (Manternach)
