On the ground floor is a dignified arcade with pointed arches and highly intricate vegetal capitals. The museum in the cloth hall is not to be missed, for the strength of its collections and its engaging, tactile displays. The reason you have to go in is to marvel at the 15 sumptuous tapestries, woven in Oudenaarde in the 16th and 17th century. If you approach Oudenaarde from the south, the metre tower of the Sint-Walburgakerk hoves into view before any other landmark.
Most of the body of the church below is from the 15th and 16th century, when the building was redesigned in a Brabant Gothic style, but the chancel is a remnant of the first, 12th-century construction.
There are a few damaged grave monuments from before this time, still in situ, but the profuse tapestries, polychrome sculptures and paintings are generally Baroque, from the 17th and 18th centuries. The Tour of Flanders is a one-day classic, run extensively on gruelling cobblestones and centred on Oudenaarde where the race has finished every year since The Ronde van Vlaanderen is contested by cobbled classics specialists. These cyclists possess all-round ability, able to sprint and take on stiff climbs, but also think tactically and be fearless in the face of physical jostling and a difficult road surface.
Among these, in the south of the town, is the metre Koppenberg hill, a draining metre ascent on cobblestones. This attraction in Oudenaarde tells you all you need to know about this one-of-a-kind race, beginning with a gripping minute film that puts you in the saddle out on the course.
Fans of the race can do a deep dive on its history with a huge archive of images, footage and sound clips. Begun in , the Pamelekerk would be completed in just 30 years, which has left it with a uniform Scheldt Gothic style.
All of the hallmarks of this style are present, among them an octagonal tower, ambulatory, triforium, clerestory and the slender, almost Romanesque three-light windows.
Standing by the river you can admire the ornamental corner turrets of the north transept, also dating to the 13th century. As with many Flemish cities, Oudenaarde comes with a historic beguinage, a community for lay religious women who had taken vows, but still had financial independence. The entrance to the courtyard is a striking Baroque structure with an image of Saint Roch, invoked against the plague. The beguines lived in the whitewashed houses dating from the 17th to the early 20th century, while the oldest building is a house from , built for a rector drowned in the Scheldt by the Calvinist Geuzen.
Ename, a couple of kilometres downriver on the right bank of the Scheldt was an important harbour and trading centre in the High Middle Ages, at the boundary between the Kingdom of France and the Ottonian Holy Roman Empire. Under the same umbrella, the archaeological site is on the right bank of the Scheldt, encompassing eight hectares and equipped with informative panels. The abbots here were influential men, as members of the States of Flanders, and would discuss political matters with statesmen in the formal garden in front, as political talk was forbidden within the monastery walls.
Beside the monastery are the remnants of an Ottonian castle raised around Three-dimensional computer reconstructions of the abbey and castle, produced with many hours of research, data analysis and archaeology, are on show in a little pavilion next to the site, open from April to November.
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