2023-09-09 04:00:00
This is the very essence of this Big Five, the five major urban events throughout the year in Charleroi: the Carolegean version of the Walloon Festival intends to commemorate the past of the metropolis at the same time. and celebrate its relevance, through its constant evolution and major changes. The program of festivities began this Friday, September 8, in the morning, with some formal protocol ceremonies. Recollections and tributes were paid to Jacques Bertrand and Jules Destrée by the elected officials of the City. In a large procession, the mayor Paul Magnette, the aldermen and many other representatives took to the streets, from the Hôtel de la Ville and the Place Charles II renamed Place Vauban, in order, in particular, to go to the floor where intersect rue de la Montagne and boulevard Audent. There, all visitors to the intra-ring know it, the monumental statue of Jules Destrée keeps watch.
It was under a clear and warm sun that this traditional tribute took place to the man who was a lawyer, a writer but also, and above all, a member of the POB, and the great instigator of the international exhibition of 1911. On the Place du Bourdon , it is the poet and songwriter Jacques Bertrand who will have been honored. With music and escorted by the giants of the City, whose carriers showed rare courage in this heat wave, the elected Carolos celebrated the memory of these two personalities who left their mark on Charleroi and all of Wallonia. Song of the Walons et Sintez come èm keûr bat (Lolotte) then resounded, taken up in chorus by everyone.
This first day of the Wallonia Festival in Charleroi, which, in all friendship, arranged not to take place at the same time as the major Namur events, then continued its program, as planned for a long time.
The morning continued with the official inauguration, in the presence of the TEC authorities, of the new Palais metro station and the adjoining bus station. Beyond the name change, the station, which was called Beaux-Arts until now, now has two elevators accessible to PRMs. Six information screens broadcast, on the bus platforms and in the metro station, the line timetables and the next approaching buses and metro trains.
The followingnoon continued with the official inauguration of the new Campus. The Zénobe Gramme and Maçonnerie buildings were open for self-guided tours from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. And a big party, with DJ, food trucks and bar livened up Solvay Boulevard, from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
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