Belfries of Belgium and France

The Belfries of Belgium and France are a group of 56 historical buildings designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites, in recognition of the civic (rather than church) belfries serving as an architectural manifestation of emerging civic independence from feudal and religious influences in the former County of Flanders (present-day French Flanders area of France and Flanders region of Belgium) and neighbouring areas which once were possessions of the House of Burgundy (in present-day Wallonia of Belgium).

The World Heritage Site was originally called the Belfries of Flanders and Wallonia, a 1999 UNESCO list of 32 towers in those two regions of Belgium.

However, a few are notably standalone, of which, a handful are rebuilt towers formerly connected to adjacent buildings.

One notable omission may seem the tower of Brussels' Town Hall, but this is not an actual belfry.

[1] As a side note, Brussels' Town Hall is part of the Grand-Place World Heritage Site.

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