Editing Beauraing

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{{Infobox Belgium municipality
|name             = Beauraing
|native_name      = {{native_name|wa|Biarin}}
|type             = city
|picture          = Beauraing JPG01.jpg
|picture-legend   = Beauraing centre
|map              = Beauraing Namur Belgium Map.svg
|map-legend       = Location of Beauraing in Namur province
|arms             = CommunesBelgique-Beauraing.svg
|flag             = Flag of Beauraing.svg
|region           = {{BE-REG-WAL}}
|community        = {{BE-FR}}
|province         = {{BE-PROV-NM}}
|arrondissement   = [[Arrondissement of Dinant|Dinant]]
|nis              = 91013
|pyramid-date     =
|0-19=
|20-64=
|65=
|foreigners=
|foreigners-date  =
|mayor            = Marc Lejeune ([[Humanist Democratic Centre|cdH]], EB)
|majority         = EB
|postal-codes     = 5570-5574, 5576
|telephone-area   = 082
|web              = [http://www.beauraing.be/ www.beauraing.be]
|coordinates      = {{coord|50|6.55|N|04|57.4|E|region:BE|display=inline,title}}
}}
'''Beauraing''' ({{IPA|fr|boʁɛ̃|-|LL-Q150 (fra)-Manestra-Beauraing.wav}}; {{langx|wa|Biarin}}) is a [[Municipalities of Belgium|municipality]] and [[City status in Belgium|city]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Loi accordant le titre de ville à la commune de Beauraing |url=https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/eli/loi/1985/03/05/1985001110/moniteur |date=5 March 1985 |lang=fr |website=www.ejustice.just.fgov.be |publisher=[[Belgian Official Gazette]] |access-date=22 April 2025}}</ref> of [[Wallonia]] located in the [[Namur Province|province of Namur]], [[Belgium]]. 
On 1 January 2018, Beauraing had a total population of 9,160. The total area is 174.55&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>, giving a [[population density]] of 52 inhabitants per km<sup>2</sup>.

==History==
The municipality of Beauraing was created in 1977 and consists of the following districts: Beauraing, [[Baronville, Belgium|Baronville]], [[Dion, Wallonia|Dion]], [[Felenne]], [[Feschaux]], [[Focant]], [[Froidfontaine]], [[Honnay]], [[Javingue]], [[Martouzin-Neuville]], [[Pondrôme]], [[Vonêche]], [[Wancennes]], [[Wiesme]] and [[Winenne]].

Beauraing is a place of pilgrimage for Catholics ever since five children and young adults reported 33 apparitions of the [[BVM(RC)|Blessed Virgin Mary]] between 29 November 1932 and 3 January 1933. The sobriquet applied to these apparitions is [[Our Lady of Beauraing]], the ''[[Virgin of the Golden Heart]]''. The apparitions are among those which are officially sanctioned by the Church.

On 17 June 2021 the town was hit by a small [[tornado]], damaging 92 houses and injuring several people.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-06-20 |title=Schade blijkt nog groter na doortocht kleine tornado in Beauraing: "Daken weggerukt, vensters weggeblazen... het is een catastrofe" |language=nl |url=https://www.hln.be/binnenland/schade-blijkt-nog-groter-na-doortocht-kleine-tornado-in-beauraing-daken-weggerukt-vensters-weggeblazen-het-is-een-catastrofe~aaf20696/ |access-date=2022-06-30}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of protected heritage sites in Beauraing]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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* [http://beauraing.catho.be/ Sanctuary of Our Lady of Beauraing]

{{Geographic location
|Centre = Beauraing
|N  = [[Houyet]]
|NE = [[Rochefort, Belgium|Rochefort]]
|E  = [[Wellin]] ([[Luxembourg (Belgium)|WLX]])
|SE = [[Daverdisse]] ([[Luxembourg (Belgium)|WLX]])
|S  = [[Gedinne]]
|SW = [[Hargnies, Ardennes|Hargnies]] ([[France|FR]]-[[Ardennes (department)|08]])
|W  = [[Fromelennes]] (FR-08)<br/>[[Charnois]] (FR-08)<br/>[[Landrichamps]] (FR-08)<br/>[[Chooz, Ardennes|Chooz]] (FR-08)
|NW = [[Givet]] ([[France|FR]]-[[Ardennes (department)|08]])
}}
{{Municipalities in Namur}}
{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Beauraing| ]]
[[Category:Cities in Wallonia]]
[[Category:Municipalities of Namur (province)]]
[[Category:Shrines to the Virgin Mary]]


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