Hi Willy,
Thanks it was very interesting to read about the trip.
About the different Abbeys and sundials. Being there for many hundreds of
years. Where here in Australia I remember as a child our town became 100 years
old.
Thanks,
Roderick Wall.
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From: "Willy Leenders"
To: "Sundial sundiallist"
Cc: "Ginny Haesevoets" , "Wim Van Lishout"
, "Karolien Mondelaers" ,
"Irene Bien"
Subject: From sundial to sundial along a meridian to Cistercian abbeys
Date: Fri, Nov 24, 2017 8:14 AM
Dear all,
On a garden path in the herb and inspiration garden of the abbey site
Herkenrode in Hasselt (Flanders in Belgium) is situated an analemmatic sundial
and a continuous meridian line of 225 meters, the longest in the world.
530 km to the south, in Brou (Bourg en Bresse - France), almost on the same
meridian is situated the oldest known analemmatic sundial.
In between, not so far from the meridian, left and right there are important
remains of medieval Cistercian abbeys including Orval, Clairvaux, Fontenay and
Cîteaux.
Interesting cities in the area are Reims, Troyes and Beaune.
A group of friends from Herkenrode, also a former Cistercian abbey, did its
fifteenth annual trip to Cistercian Abbeys in Europe in September 2017 under
the slogan “From sundial to sundial along a meridian to Cistercian abbeys"
An illustrated and documented report of that trip can be found on my website on
page http://www.wijzerweb.be/fromsundialtosundial.html
Willy Leenders
Hasselt in Flanders (Belgium)
Visit my website about the sundials in the province of Limburg (Flanders) with
a section 'worth knowing about sundials' (mostly in Dutch):
http://www.wijzerweb.be---
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