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The Grand-Place (former spelling: Grand'Place) is the main square of the historical centre of the Belgian city of Mons.
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The Grand-Place, which is very spacious and similar to other town squares in Flanders, is located next to the pedestrian shopping street and the belfry. The edges of the square are accessible by car, but it is forbidden to park or to drive through the centre. Each year, on Trinity Sunday, it is the stage of the fight called Lumeçon, a fight between Saint Georges and a dragon.[1]
The Grand-Place is cobbled in the style of old cities and is home to many cafes, restaurants, as well as a chapel and the City Hall that dominates the squar with its huge structure, stature, construction (emblematic presence). The City Hall, as well as the theatre, respond to its historical traditions, like a master plan to follow. We can also admire a wrought iron statuette that was inserted into the Town Hall's facade at an unknown date. It represents a monkey,[2] that has so often been stroked by the inhabitant of Mons and tourists from all over the world that its skull is polished.