Ename is now a drab suburban village, 3km northeast of Oudenaade. But in AD 925 the site was one of three main defence posts along the border between pre-medieval France and Ottonian Germany (the others were Antwerp and Valenciennes). Later it was home to a vast abbey, reduced to scant remnants after the French Revolution. This history is imaginatively brought alive at PAM Ename using a 15-minute video and ‘1000-year feast’ talking tableau. Next door is Ename's millennium-old stone church.
