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Lessines ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; Template:Langx; Template:Langx; Template:Langx {{#invoke:IPA|main}}) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. As of the 2014 census, The municipality's total population was 18,637. The total area is Template:Convert which gives a population density of 247 inhabitants per km2.
The municipality consists of the following districts: Bois-de-Lessines, Deux-Acren, Ghoy, Lessines, Ogy, Ollignies, Papignies, and Wannebecq.
Lessines is a municipality of Picardy Wallonia. It is primarily known as the birthplace of the surrealist painter René Magritte.
HistoryEdit
Postal historyEdit
The Lessines post office opened before 1830. It used postal code 71 with bars (before 1864), and 214 with points before 1874. Deux-Acren post office opened on 15 May 1866. It used postal code 104 with points before 1874. The Papignies post office opened on 18 February 1880, Ghoy and Ollignies on 25 May 1905, and Ogy on 5 November 1907.<ref>Catalogue Spécialisé des Oblitérations Belges, Nationale en Internationale Postzegelmanifestaties Antwerpen (NIPA), Antwerp, 1999.</ref>
Postal codes in 1969:<ref>Liste des Numéros Postaux, Administration des Postes, Bruxelles 1969.</ref> 7850 Ollignies - 7851 Bois-de-Lessines - 7860 Lessines - 7861 Papignies - 7862 Ogy - 7863 Ghoy - 7870 Deux-Acren
Postal codes since at least 1990: 7860 Lessines - 7861 Papignies, Wannebecq (not opened in 1969) - 7862 Ogy - 7863 Ghoy - 7864 Deux-Acren - 7866 Bois-de-Lessines, Ollignies
CultureEdit
The Underwear Museum, created by Jan Bucquoy, is in Lessines; it moved from Brussels to Lessines in 2016.<ref name=BoyleTheBulletinMoves>Template:Cite magazine</ref> The Hospital of Our Lady with the Rose, a tentative World Heritage site, and the Castle of l'Estriverie are also in Lessines.
GalleryEdit
- Sint-Pieterskerk (Lessen) 11-05-2021 12-36-17.jpg
Church of St. Peter
- Lessines hopiral cloitre.jpg
Hôpital Notre-Dame à la Rose ("Hospital of Our Lady with the Rose")
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Quarry of Porphyre
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Lessinia Vrbs from Het steden-Boek by Joan Blaeu, c. 1649
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
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- Official website (in French)
- Another site, with further information on the city (in French, Dutch, and English)
- Another site, with information in French
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