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St Aubin's Cathedral, Trip Packages
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St Aubin's Cathedral,

Namur, Wallonia, Belgium
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About St Aubin's Cathedral,

St Aubin's Cathedral, Namur, Wallonia, the handiest cathedral in Belgium in educational Late Baroque fashion. It was the simplest church constructed within the Low Countries as a cathedral after 1559, whilst most of the dioceses of the Netherlands have been reorganized. It is assessed as part of Wallonia's Major Heritage through the Walloon Region. In the interior, there is an ornamented frieze, carved with swags of fruit and flowers among the Corinthian capitals runs in an unbroken band completely spherical the church. All shade is prevented, replaced by means of architectural enrichments and the bas-reliefs within the pendentives of the dome.

The indoors contains some pieces of art, like art work by Anthony van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens and Jacques Nicolai, a Jesuit brother and pupil of Rubens. There is likewise an vintage, romanesque baptismal font. In the cathedral a marble plaque near the excessive altar conceals a casket containing the coronary heart of Don Juan of Austria, Habsburg governor of the Spanish Netherlands, who died in 1578; his body lies in the Escorial close to Madrid.

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