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Belgian marble is the name given to limestone extracted in Wallonia, southern Belgium.

It is quarried around the cities of Namur, Dinant, Tournai, Basecles, Theux, and Mazy/Golzinne. [1]

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arcades. Collegiate Church of Saint Gertrude, Nivelles, Belgium, uses fine shafts of Belgian marble to define alternating blind openings and windows. Upper...

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The interior uses gray Tennessee marble, black Belgian marble, golden veined Formosa marble, and Bottocino marble. Christopher Gray wrote in The New...

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Chanin Building

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those objectives are attained. The base of the building bears black Belgian marble around the storefront windows, which are each made of plate glass. These...

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