Leuze-en-Hainaut

Leuze-en-Hainaut is a city and municipality of Wallonia in the province of Hainaut, Belgium, and sits within the administrative arrondissement of Tournai-Mouscron. Its name is rendered Leuze-in-Hénau in Picard and Leuze-e-Hinnot in Walloon. On 1 January 2018 the municipality had a population of 13,886. It is made up of ten districts: Blicquy, Chapelle-à-Oie, Chapelle-à-Wattines, Gallaix, Grandmetz, Leuze-en-Hainaut itself, Pipaix, Thieulain, Tourpes and Willaupuis. Its best known landmark is the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter, built in 1745 on the site of an earlier Gothic church that was destroyed by fire; the interior is noted for intricate woodwork, including carved confessional panels in the Louis XV style, a sculpted figure of Saint Peter in chains below the pulpit and an ornate organ case. The town is twinned with Loudun in France (1961), Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso (1968) and Carencro in Louisiana in the United States (1993).