Search results
Oudenaarde (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʌudənaːrdə] ⓘ; French: Audenarde; in English sometimes Oudenarde) is a Belgian city and municipality in the Flemish province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Oudenaarde proper and the towns of Bevere , Edelare, Eine , Ename , Heurne, Leupegem, Mater, Melden , Mullem, Nederename ...
Highlights include Oudenaarde’s late-Gothic town hall with its Cloth Hall and famous tapestries, its Beguinage and MOU municipal museum. This gem of the Flemish Ardennes is also a cycling Mecca. For a century now, its undulating roads, cobblestones and hills have played crucial roles in Flanders’ spring classics.
Feb 24, 2020 · Oudenaarde is endowed with a lot of other historic architecture, in its churches, Patrician houses and long defunct monasteries. The city is also synonymous with the Tour of Flanders, a one-day classic cycle race, hauling the world’s best cyclists up tough slopes paved with cobblestones. 1. Stadhuis.
The Battle of Oudenarde, also known as the Battle of Oudenaarde, was a major engagement of the War of the Spanish Succession, pitting a Grand Alliance force consisting of eighty thousand men under the command of the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy against a French force of eighty-five thousand men under the command of the Duc de ...
- 11 July 1708
- Grand Alliance victory
- LisaS_AK. Anchorage, AK72 contributions. Tour and tasting. Interesting and fun tour of the brewery followed by a tasting. Hector was a great guide. Love their oriel.
- Maarten. Ghent, Belgium 21 contributions. Unique collection of tapestries and silver. What a beautiful museum, in such a great building (the Town Hall), and what a unique collection of old tapestries and silver.
- JEANZUk. UK27 contributions. MY ronde van vlaanderen. Hired a bike for the day to cycle part of the famous ronde. Staff was very friendly and helpful, my bike was ready to go on arrival, changing room and shower facilities very good also.
- hans-jaguar. Santa Comba Dao, Portugal 22,319 contributions. Visiting the city of Oudenaarde. In the city of Oudenaarde we also have visited “the Town Hall” who was built by architect Hendrik van Pede in between 1526–1537 this to replace the medieval “Aldermen's House” that occupied the same site.
Oudenaarde is a city in East Flanders. Oudenaarde is about 30 km south of Ghent, the capital of the province. The town has a little over 30,000 inhabitants and is a convenient hub for cycling tourists because of its geographical location in the center of the Flemish Ardennes.
Oudenaarde, municipality, Flanders Region, west-central Belgium. It lies along the Scheldt (Schelde) River south of Ghent. A prosperous tapestry-making centre in the Middle Ages, its industry declined in the 15th century with the success of the Gobelin tapestry weavers (trained in Oudenaarde), many.
