Grimde Necropolis

Northeast Belgium


Push open the door of this 13th-century former church and you'll see not pews but the flower-decked graves of 145 brave Belgians who died in August 1914 attempting to stop the German advance during WWI.

It's an affectingly simple but moving place with soldier-themed stained-glass windows. The church is on Tienen's eastern edge less than five minutes' walk from the Grimde Tumuli.


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