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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