Mons

Flag of Mons.

Coat of arms of Mons.

The "Grand-Place" and town hall of Mons with its belfry in the background.

The Sainte Waudru collegiate church.

Mons is a town in Belgium and the capital of the Province of Hainaut. It is the fourth largest city of the Walloon part of Belgium where French is spoken. The town's name takes its roots from the Latin word mons which means mountain. In 2015, the city becomes the European Capital of Culture for the calendar year.

In 2007, 91,196 people lived there.

It is at 50° 27 North, 03° 56 East.

People born in Mons

• Gilles Binchois, composer (15th century, birth in Mons is uncertain)
• Orlande de Lassus, composer (16th century)
• Guido de Bres, theologian (1522 to 31 May 1567)
• Giuseppe Grisoni, painter and sculptor (17th century)
• François-Joseph Fétis, musicologist, composer, critic, and teacher (18th century)
• François-Philippe de Haussy, first governor of the National Bank of Belgium (18th century)
• Paul Émile de Puydt, botanist, economist, and writer (19th century)
• Émile Motte, painter (19th century)

Twin cities

• France: Briare
• France: Thoissey
• France: Vannes
• United Kingdom: Sefton
• China: Changsha
• United States: Little Rock, Arkansas

Mons Media

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  The Saint Waltrude Collegiate Church and the belfry.

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  The central square and town hall of Mons with the belfry in the background

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  Map of Mons in the sixteenth century. Made by Lodovico Guicciardini.

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  Map of Mons at the siege, 1691

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  Mons fusillade on 17 April 1893

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  Canadians entering Mons in 1918 (source: Archives of Ontario)

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  42nd Battalion marching through the Grand Place, Mons, on the morning of November 11, 1918

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  Hôtel de Ville de Mons, le 11 juillet 2006. Photo Lefrancq. Mons

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  This is a photo of a monument in Wallonia, number:

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  This is a photo of a monument in Wallonia, number:

Other websites

• Official site of the city, in French.