Stavelot

Stavelot is a Walloon municipality in the Belgian province of Liege. In 2006, Stavelot had a population of 6,671 and an area of 85.07 km2, giving a populace density of 78 population in keeping with rectangular kilometre. The metropolis grew up around the Abbey of Stavelot, founded ca 650, out of what were a villa, by using Saint Remaclus. The villa's lands occupied the borderland among the bishoprics of Cologne and Tongeren. The Abbey of Stavelot become secularized and demolished on the time of the French Revolution: of the church just the west cease doorway stays, as a loose-status tower.

Two cloisters one secular, one for the clergymen live to tell the tale because the courtyards of the brick-and-stone seventeenth-century home ranges, now housing the Museum of the Principality of Stavelot-Malmedy, and museums devoted to the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who changed into an extended-term resident, and to the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. The foundations of the abbey church are offered as a footprint, with walls and column bases that enable the traveler to visualize the scale of the Romanesque abbey.