Ciney
Encyclopedia
Ciney is a Walloon municipality
located in the Belgian
province of Namur
. On January 1, 2006 Ciney had a total population of 14,958. The total area is 147.56 km² which gives a population density
of 101 inhabitants per km².
Several beers from the city are now brewed by Alken Maes and still bear the name: Ciney Blonde, Ciney Brown and Ciney Special. Those beers were first brewed in 1978.
The municipality includes the town of Ciney, along with a number of villages, including Chapois
, Achêne, Leignon
, Sovet and a few more.
The city was damaged by a heavy storm on 14 July 2010. The bell tower collapsed on its nave. Nobody was hurt, but the bell tower no longer exists. It was the city's symbol and also Ciney's beer symbol. The reconstruction will take more than a year and will cost some million euros.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
located in the Belgian
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
province of Namur
Namur (province)
Namur is a province of Wallonia, one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders on the Walloon provinces of Hainaut, Walloon Brabant, Liège and Luxembourg in Belgium, and on France. Its capital is the city of Namur...
. On January 1, 2006 Ciney had a total population of 14,958. The total area is 147.56 km² which gives a population density
Population density
Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans...
of 101 inhabitants per km².
Several beers from the city are now brewed by Alken Maes and still bear the name: Ciney Blonde, Ciney Brown and Ciney Special. Those beers were first brewed in 1978.
The municipality includes the town of Ciney, along with a number of villages, including Chapois
Chapois (Belgium)
Chapois is a village in the municipality of Ciney, Belgium.Chapois is twinned with a village of the same name, Chapois in France.It is served by its own railway station, on the Namur - Arlon - Luxembourg line. The next station to the north-west is Leignon and the next station to the east is Haversin....
, Achêne, Leignon
Leignon
Leignon is a village in the municipality of Ciney, in the Belgian province of Namur. It was a municipality itself until the fusion of the municipalities in 1977....
, Sovet and a few more.
The city was damaged by a heavy storm on 14 July 2010. The bell tower collapsed on its nave. Nobody was hurt, but the bell tower no longer exists. It was the city's symbol and also Ciney's beer symbol. The reconstruction will take more than a year and will cost some million euros.