Belgium and Luxembourg (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

Exploring Central Wallonia

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194 BELGIUM AND LUXEMBOURG REGION BY REGION

The fertile, undulating lowlands of Brabant Wallon are the

farmland setting for the battle site of Waterloo and for the

university at Louvain-la-Neuve. The River Meuse forms a

centrepiece, linking Dinant and Namur. It is flanked by the

Citadelle of Namur and the châteaux of Annevoie and Freÿr,

as well as the abbeys of Floreffe and Maredsous. Couvin nes-

tles in the forested Fagne region, close to the famous Grottes

de Neptune at Petigny. Steam engines puff their way through

the Viroin valley between Mariembourg and Treignes. The

hills of the Ardennes begin to rise fur-

ther to the south and east, where

the River Lesse carves a path out

of the limestone hills. The spec-

tacular caves of Han-sur-Lesse lie

in the far southeast of the region.

Churches and Abbeys

Abbaye de Floreffe 0

Abbaye de Maredsous r

Abbaye de Villers 6

Basilique St-Materne i

Parks

Jardins d’Annevoie q

Areas of Natural Beauty

Domaine des Grottes

de Han d

Folx-les-Caves 5

River Meuse t

Sites of Interest

Brasserie du Bocq w

Louvain-la-Neuve 4

Walibi 3

Villages, Towns and Cities

Couvin p

Dinant e

Mariembourg o

Namur pp202–203 (^8)
Nivelles 7
Rochefort f
Waterloo pp196–7 (^1)
Castles
Château de Freÿr y
Château de Lavaux
Ste-Anne s
Château de Vêves u
Corroy-le-Château 9
Museums
Fondation Folon 2
Treignes a
The resplendent interior of Groesbeek de Croix museum at Namur
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