Visit : park/garden, garden

CLOISTER GARDEN OF THE HOPITAL NOTRE-DAME A LA ROSE

CLOISTER GARDEN OF THE HOPITAL NOTRE-DAME A LA ROSE

© Hôpital Notre-Dame à la Rose

Address:

Place Alix de Rosoit
7860 LESSINES
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Tel.:+32 (0) 68 33 24 03

Fax:+32 (0) 68 26 86 57

Founded by Alix de Rosoit in 1242, the "Hôpital Notre-Dame à la Rose" was established to welcome the poor of Lessines and its surrounding districts who were unable to beg in the streets. The current building, a pleasing quadrilateral around the cloister, was altered and extended between 1517 and 1722. The façades facing the cloister alternate Gothic, Flemish Renaissance and Baroque style on different floors. A few hundred metres from the town centre, at the heart of the main building, the cloister garden is a little haven of peace. Its current design dates to the beginning of the 20th century. Since its earliest days the "hospital" has also had its own cemetery, to the south of the cloister protected by a little surrounding wall.

Visit type: PARK/GARDEN, GARDEN

Comment:

Open : The gardens are accessible as part of a trip round the Notre-Dame à la Rose hospital: from 1 April to the last Sunday in October.
Last entry at 5.45 pm.
On weekends and weekdays by advance reservation, for groups of 20.
Guided visits: visit-conference: from 1 April to the last Sunday in October, every 1st Sunday of the Month at 2.30 pm - In French, Dutch and English.

Access: By motorway: approaching from Enghien: A8, exit 29, then take the N57 towards Lessines - Train: Lessines station + bus 87B; get off at the Grand-Place stop.