Cattedrale di Notre-Dame (Tournai)

Tournai / Belgio

La cattedrale di Notre-Dame a Tournai è uno dei più importanti monumenti architettonici del Belgio e dal 2000 fa parte dell'elenco dei patrimoni dell'umanità dell'UNESCO. Questa struttura, costruita con pietre locali blu e grigie, occupa un terreno in lieve dislivello vicino alla riva sud del fiume Schelda, che divide in due parti quasi uguali la città di Tournai.

Musée des Beaux-Arts (Tournai)

Tournai / Belgio

The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Tournai, Belgium, is an art museum. The inception of the museum was in the beginning of the 20th century when Henri Van Cutsem, a Belgian art collector, offered his collection to the city of Tournai in 1905. The collection contained important works of important 19th century French painters like Manet, Monet, Seurat and others. The Belgian Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta started drafting a new building that would contain the Van Cutsem donation and other holdings already owned by the city of Tournai but the First World War intervened and construction was delayed. Horta abandoned his first designs made in a typical Art Nouveau style, shifting to the popular art deco style. The building, which opened in 1928, is a graceful curved version of usually strict linearity of art deco, in this, it is similar to Horta's Brussels Central Station. .