page_title: Tournai
hierarchical_section_title: Tournai
caption_attribution_description: photo prise depuis le haut du beffroi
context_page_description: Tournai, known in Dutch as Doornik and historically as Dornick in English, is a Walloon municipality of Belgium, 85 kilometres southwest of Brussels on the river Scheldt. In the province of Hainaut, Tournai is part of Eurometropolis Lille–Kortrijk–Tournai, which had 2,155,161 residents in 2008.
  Tournai is one of the oldest cities in Belgium and has played an important role in the country's cultural history. It was the first capital of the Frankish Empire, with Clovis I being born here.
context_section_description: Tournai (/tʊərˈneɪ/ toor-NAY, French: [tuʁnɛ]; Picard: Tornai; Walloon: Tornè [tɔʀnɛ] (listen); Latin: Tornacum), known in Dutch as Doornik and historically as Dornick in English, is a Walloon municipality of Belgium, 85 kilometres (53 miles) southwest of Brussels on the river Scheldt. In the province of Hainaut, Tournai is part of Eurometropolis Lille–Kortrijk–Tournai, which had 2,155,161 residents in 2008.
  Tournai is one of the oldest cities in Belgium and has played an important role in the country's cultural history.  It was the first capital of the Frankish Empire, with Clovis I being born here.
caption: Tournai Grand-Place
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