Ommegang of Brussels

The Ommegang of Brussels is a traditional procession that takes place now twice a year , at the turn of June and July.

Originally it was the largest lustral procession of Brussels which took place once a year on the Sunday before Pentecost.

The term Ommegang, in Latin "circumambulatio" means "walking around" in Old Flemish and it is an old historical evocation of Brussels.

It joins the tradition of the great processions of notable riders and giants that are found everywhere in Belgium and northern France.

Bibliography

• 1960: Leo van Puyvelde, L'Ommegang de 1615 à Bruxelles‎ , Brussels, Éditions du Marais, 1960.
• 1975: Jean Jacquot, Fêtes et cérémonies au temps de Charles Quint.‎ , Fédération internationale des sociétés et instituts pour l'étude de la Renaissance, 1975.
• 1980: Arthur Haulot, Cette nuit-là, l'Ommegang de Bruxelles , Brussels, Ed. Trois Arches, 1980.
• 1997: Daniel Frankignioul (dir.), Brigitte Twyffels, Michel Staes, Claude Flagel, Alfred Willis, ‎Pleins Feux sur l'Ommegang, ‎La Reconstitution du Cortège en 1930 par Albert Marinus., Woluwé-Saint-Lambert, Fondation Albert Marinus, 1997.
• 1997: Rosine De Dijn et Siegfried Himmer, La Grand-Place de Bruxelles, fastueux décor de l'Ommegang, Eupen, Grenz-Echo Editions, 1997.
• 1999: Isabelle Lecomte-Depoorter, Ommegang, with illustrations of René Follet, Éditions Glénat, 1999
• 2007: Olivier de Trazegnies, Louis-Philippe Breydel, L'Ommegang, (trilingual), Brussels, Renaissance du Livre, 2007.

External links

• Ommegang Oppidi Bruxellensis