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Baillage The visitor who stops on Grand' Place will admire this elegant building of Flemish Renaissance style which was built towards 1600 to be used as body of guard. Sandstone banks leaned with the walls run under the arched gallery bordered of 7 monolithic columns. Close to the gate giving on the floor and slicing on brick, an engraved stone represents the armorial bearings of the governor of the time. The three frontages are decorated planks of stone. Above the gallery, the first plank represents interlacings of hunting and wars, the lighter of Burgundy. Between the window: an emptied niche of its statue under the Revolution and Grand' side Places, a bretèche with the pointed roof carrying the weapons of the City. Crowning the building, a high deeply carved plank or one recognizes there the 4 elements, the theological and cardinal virtues. Proudly camped with the 4 angles of the attic, of the lions sitted hold between their claws the escutcheon of Burgundy. Formerly intended to shelter soldiers then, as its name indicates it, with becoming the court of the Baillifs, Bailliage found a new vocation while being the seat of the Tourist office. |
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