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Sint-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde is a part of the municipality of Dendermonde in the Denderstreek in East Flanders in Belgium, a typical agricultural village in the Dendervallei near the junction of the railroads to Ghent, Mechelen and Brussels.
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Map of Sint-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde, 9200 Dendermonde, Belgium
Sint-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde is birthplace to poet Emmanuel Hiel (1834 - 1894) and literature historian Wies Moens (1898 - 1982).
Sint-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde has a yearly flower show on the first Sunday of September, a parade of flower-covered floats built in the several districts of Sint-Gillis, to a different theme each year.
On 23 January 2009, a man attacked a children's daycare centre in the village, killing at least three people and wounding as many as twenty. Italian singer Luciano Ligabue dedicated to the victims a song, Quando mi vieni a prendere? (Dendermonde 23/01/09) inserted in his 2010 album, Arrivederci, Mostro!.
Cinema
There is one cinema in Sint-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde, named Cinema Albert. It is one of the oldest cinemas in Belgium, in business since 1914, and largely expanded after the First World War. It has been a family business from the start, and is still run by the same family since 1914. It ranks 36th in the Belgian list of top cinemas.