The best road cycling routes around Jodoigne

In autumn it's beautiful to walk through there with these trees full of colors.

The architect, Emile Coulon, is also the architect of the Saint-Lambert church in Jodoigne and the Saint-Sulpice church in Beauvechain.

The current church of Saint-Jean-Geest, dedicated to Saint George, was built in 1870-71. The old one dated from the Gothic period. It consisted of a nave with side aisles, a transept, and a choir. The latter consisted of a single bay and a three-sided apse. In this church, which had undergone numerous restorations, only one truly archaeological detail was noted: a beautiful Gothic-style piscina [...]. The high altar was dedicated to Saint George, and the side altars were placed under the invocation of the Holy Trinity and the Assumption of the Virgin. Three bells hung in the tower. In April 1870, a new church began to be built a little further into the center of the town, designed by the architect Coulon. It was built in the Renaissance style and presents the form of a basilica topped by three apses of unequal size. Each apse has three blind sides, except that the choir has an additional large bay; behind the lateral apses extend two sacristies. The naves form five bays and are separated from each other by two rows of columns supporting arched arcades; the vaults, like that of the choir, are cross-ribbed, and the middle nave, higher than the lateral naves, receives daylight through a second row of windows. The facade of the church is completed by two half-gables, each pierced by an arched window; here, on the left, are the baptismal font; on the right, a repository or refuge. Buttresses support the façade, and pilaster buttresses support the other parts of the building, which was completed during the summer of 1871. Brick was used, except that white stone from France and Gobertange was also used for the façade and tower. Source and more information: https://www.jodoigne.be/jodoigne/information/saint-jean-geest

The Château Rose was built by order of Albert-Pierre Stier (1745-1816). In 1776, he bought the seigniory of Orp, as it had been known since the end of the 17th century, when the land of Orp-le-Grand was merged with that of Orp-le-Petit. The pillory of Orp-le-Petit at the front is one of about fifty in Belgium that are listed by the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage. When our country was invaded by France in 1794, the French revolutionaries rushed to abolish the symbols of the Ancien Régime and the pillory was demolished. A few years later, around 1826, Baron Jean-François de Vinck de deux Orp (1774-1827), nephew of the builder of the castle, had the restored elements of the pillory rebuilt on his estate, more specifically in the central part of the meadow below the castle. Source: https://www.orp-jauche.be/wp-content/uploads/Brochure_PetitPatrimoinePopulaire_ORP.pdf

The church of Saint-Jean-Geest is not dedicated to this saint, as one might think, but to Saint George. Since the thirteenth century, it was indebted to the abbey of Aywières. But the tithes and the revenues of the parish were disputed for a long time. The current church was built in 1870-1871. (Ville de Jodoigne)

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very nice Ravel to ride