Hôtel d'Alcantara

Top choice in Wallonia


Tournai’s most appealing hotel has a regal northern facade, behind which is a beautifully realised boutique hotel. Well-modernised rooms, often with bold colour schemes, come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Rooms themed for musical styles have better bathrooms than the 'artist' rooms. Some are tucked into old beam-eaves. Pretty garden terrace. Breakfast included.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Wallonia attractions

1. Église St-Quentin

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Église St-Quentin is a hefty Romanesque church with a 12th-century nave, posterior Gothic features and a striking red-tiled roof. When viewed from near…

2. Grand Place

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Tournai’s gorgeous triangular main square is ringed with cafes in fine gable-fronted guildhouses merrily flying guild banners. Kids play in ‘dare-you’…

3. Tour du Cygne

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One of two towers preserved from the original 1202 city wall, this is a surprising sight at the end of a nondescript lane.

4. Halle Aux Draps

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Tournai's former cloth hall is the Grand Place's finest building, with an elegant gilt-detailed facade and a brick-vaulted interior that opens for…

5. Musée de Folklore

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This is a lovable and sizeable warren of fascinating city-relevant relics and ethnographic artefacts. It's all in French, but many of the cameo scenes are…

6. Tour St-Georges

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One of two towers preserved from the original 1202 city wall.

7. Beffroi

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Belgium’s oldest belfry is 72m high with a narrow 257-step spiral staircase that becomes even narrower higher up. There's a good multilingual display on…

8. Cathédrale Notre Dame

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Dominating Tournai’s skyline are the five spires of its remarkable cathedral, which survived WWII bombs only for a freak 1999 tornado to compromise its…