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Morning Walk in Lier: A Belgian City of Romantic Beauty - Slow TV 4K ** Below text is also captioned in video, click CC (Subtitles) in video to enable ** Good morning dear Scene Walker. We're greeted by the chimes of the Zimmer Tower, it's 10am on Friday. Today the rain has given way to sunshine, if only it was like this every day. During the previous walk we explored the historic Herkenrode Abbey. Now we venture through the streets of a fairly compact, but beautiful city of Lier. Lier is a city in Flanders, Belgium with 37,000 inhabitants and is a 50 km drive from Brussels. To find out more about Lier, we have to delve into its eventful past. In the year 1212, Lier was inaugurated as a city by Henry I, Duke of Brabant. However, its beginnings can be traced back to a Frankish villa from the 7th century (Merovingian period), when the knight (later canonized) Gummarus, stood at the foundation of Lier. The city flourished in the 14th and 15th centuries thanks to t
