Leuze-en-Hainaut explained

Leuze-en-Hainaut
Map:	Leuze-en-Hainaut Hainaut Belgium Map.svg
Map-Legend:	The municipality in the province of Hainaut
Arms:	Blason ville be Leuze-en-Hainaut.svg
Flag:	Leuze-en-Hainaut_Belgium.svg
Sister City:	Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Arrondissement:	Tournai-Mouscron
Nis:	57094
Mayor:	Lucien Rawart (MR)
Majority:	MR, IDEES
Parties:	MR Ecolo PS Idées
Seats:	23 10 9 6 4
Sections-Name:	Leuze-en-Hainaut Grandmetz Thieulain Blicquy Chapelle-à-Oie Chapelle-à-Wattines Pipaix Tourpes Willaupuis Gallaix
Sections-Postal:	7900 7900 7901 7903 7903 7903 7904 7904 7904 7906
Postal-Codes:	7900-7906
Telephone-Area:	069
Web:	www.leuze-en-hainaut.be
Coordinates:	50.5994°N 3.62°W

Leuze-en-Hainaut (pronounced as /fr/; pcd|Leuze-in-Hénau; wa|Leuze-e-Hinnot) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.

On 1 January 2018, it had a population of 13,886.

The municipality consists of the following districts: Blicquy, Chapelle-à-Oie, Chapelle-à-Wattines, Gallaix, Grandmetz, Leuze-en-Hainaut, Pipaix, Thieulain, Tourpes, and Willaupuis.

Famous landmarks

• The Collegiate Church of Saint Peter was erected in 1745 on the site of a former Gothic church, destroyed by fire. The building's sumptuous interior features intricate woodwork, including the carved Louis XVth style panels of the confessionals, decorated with a variety of motifs, a sculpted representation of Saint Peter in chains, below the pulpit, and the organ casing.

Twin towns

• - Loudun (France) (1961)
• - Ouagadougou Burkina Faso (1968)
• - Carencro, Louisiana (United States) (1993)

See also

• Brasserie à vapeur