Tuesday, Queen Mathilde of Belgium was on a cultural appointments in her agenda. The Belgian Queen was near Mons, where she discovered a contractor exhibition of St. George and dragon.

Just having returned from her humanitarian trip to Ethiopia did not cancel her trip to Mons on November 17 although with a step up security reenforncement on the Belgian territory. The wife of King Philippe of Belgium was expected at Mac's, (Museum of Contemporary Arts) located on the Grand-Hornu site to discover the exhibition "Man, the Dragon and Death. The Glory of St. George ", which is held until January 17 next in the context of Mons 2015 - European Capital of Culture. For a selection of paintings, sculptures, drawings, illuminated manuscripts ..., it asks "how St. George and the dragon, in the mind of our contemporaries, like the melting pot of different human fighting against forces hostile, but also, and perhaps above all, of man against himself in the affirmation of its destiny, "it said on the website of Mac's.
À contemporary works, including specific commands made artists, are added in particular the medieval sculptures and Renaissance paintings that seemed much interested Mathilde during his visit to the exhibition. Which appeared on her arrival at the scene, which were welcomed by schoolchildren, in a dress red blouse matched with her earrings and white spotted skirt highlighted the size of an equally red leather bow .