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The Carnival of La Louvière is called Laetare, after the Latin verb meaning “to enjoy” (the introit at mass on the fourth Sunday of Lent begins Laetare Jerusalem, Rejoice Jerusalem). It lasts three days, Sunday to Tuesday, and takes place in the middle of Lent .
I read "la vie au rose" as "life to pink", but it doesn't really makes sense on its own anyway (you could use that in a sentence like "J'ai donné vie au rose" = "I gave life(birth) to pink")
Capital of the Centre region, La Louvière, also named the Wolves city, is sure to delight those curious about history, culture and folkloric traditions. Let’s talk about its rich industrial past: the Canal du Centre, its hundred-year-old boat lift, the mining site of Bois du Luc.
Hydraulic lifts, mining sites, a ceramics museum... are amazing witnesses of the Industrial Era in La Louvière. Read more
- Hydraulic Boat Lifts. Bestriding the Canal du Centre close to La Louvière are four century-old technological marvels that look like they might have been dreamed up by H.G.
- Strépy-Thieu Boatlift. As we’ll see, the Canal du Centre was widened in a long-term modern project, completed in 2002. This bypassed the old boatlifts, putting all their work on the shoulders of one record-breaking megastructure.
- Canal du Centre. More on the actual waterway, which is just over 20 kilometres and links the Meuse with the Scheldt. This piece of infrastructure had been centuries in the pipeline as a means of transporting coal, but the almost 100-metre difference in elevation between the two rivers was prohibitive until human technology could catch up at the turn of the 20th century.
- Keramis-Centre de la Ceramique. The old, listed Boch earthenware manufactory on the edge of the city centre now holds this first-rate museum dedicated to ceramics.
La Louvière, city of 80 000 residents, also called “La Cité des Loups ” (The City of Wolves) is located in the heart of the Hainaut province, 50 km from Brussels. The city of La Louvière benefits from a central location at the heart of Wallonia, not far from the borders of France, Germany, Luxembourg and The Netherlands.
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Nov 20, 2017 · This pretty, fragrant rose was found in France by the Rosarian, Andre’ Guillot. Parents of this rose are said to be Hybrid Perpetual “Madame Victor Verdier” and tea rose “Madame Bravy” —giving us a new classification of roses—Hybrid Teas!
