Andenne

Andenne is a French-talking town in Belgium positioned within the Walloon Region inside the province of Namur. Remains of an historic Neanderthal occupation were discovered on the Scladina website in Sclayn. Discoveries at the nearby village of Strud consist of what's considered one of the oldest regarded insect fossils. It is in 692, Merovingian duration, that Andenne begins its development, way to the inspiration of a monastery via Begge trisaieule of Charlemagne, sister of Gertrude de Nivelles, mom of Pepin de Herstal and grandmother Charles Martel wherein he changed into born.

During a journey to Rome, the Pope endorsed Begge, then a widow, to build a monastery. God made acknowledged to Begge the exact vicinity where to establish this monastery, by way of displaying him a sow and his seven piglets, then a chook and his seven chicks. These symptoms were interpreted by Begge as the divine will to see a sanctuary with seven chapels hooked up there. Thus become born Andenne, the town of seven churches.