Ciney

Ciney is a French-speaking town in Belgium placed in the Walloon Region in the province of Namur. Ciney become one of the 23 Good Cities of the Principality of Liege. She became also involved within the War of the Cow. His call turned into formerly Chinay. The metropolis become taken by using the Duke of Lorraine Charles IV, on February 10, 16533,4. During the Second World War, at some point of the Battle of France, Ciney changed into taken on May 12, 1940 by using the Germans of the Voraus-Abteilung Werner forefront of the 5th Panzerdivision of Max von Hartlieb-Walsporn. The town have been evacuated by its defenders, French of the 4th Light Cavalry Division6 of General Paul Barbe.

On August 26, 2006, Ciney celebrated its 1st millennium. During the violent typhoon of July 14, 2010, the university of Ciney is closely damaged. Its bell tower, the symbol of the town and the Ciney beer, collapsed, disemboweling the passage of the building. The recovery works will begin on the cease of 2015 and result in mid-2017, for a complete value of nearly 2.9 million euros. It is located below the patronage of Saint Nicholas and dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption.