Tournai’s major gem of Art Nouveau is its Beaux Arts Museum, the work of the celebrated architect Victor Horta. It is set behind the town hall in the wooded gardens of the old abbey of Saint Martin.

Tournai was also a scene of dramatic liberation in 1918. At the end of September that year the German Sixth Army moved its headquarters from Lille to Tournai, destroying bridges and setting up ...

UNESCO World Heritage CentreThe Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Tournai was built in the first half of the 12th century. It is especially distinguished by a Romanesque nave of extraordinary dimensions, a ...

The Historical Journal, celebrating the publication of its 50th volume this year, continues to publish papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century. The ...