Liessies Abbey - Remains

Remains

Although the major structures are destroyed, a number of small monastic working buildings still survive scattered about the abbey's former park, which has been preserved as an open space.

The chapel of St. Hiltrude still stands in the forest, although the procession in honour of the saint took place for the last time in 1963.

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