Beffroi de Comines

Rebuilt in the Flemish Renaissance style, the Town Hall was inaugurated in 1929. The regional architect Louis Marie Cordonnier succeeded in unifying the two monuments by combining brick and stone and using the same architectural vocabulary: bell towers, dormer windows, decorative finials, and slate roofing. The Town Hall was listed in the supplementary inventory of historical monuments in 2001 and its belfry was recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2005 along with 22 other...