| Walhain | |
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| Walhain Castle | |
| Information | |
| Country | .svg/20px-Flag_of_Belgium_(civil).svg.png){kind=small} Belgium |
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| Area | 37,94 km² |
| Population | 7 167 hab. () |
| Density | 188,9 inhab./km² |
| Postal code | 1457 |
| Location | |
 50 ° 38 ′ 28 ″ N 4 ° 40 ′ 5 ″ E | |
| Official site | |
Walhain is a city of Pays de Villers in Walloon Brabant.
Understand
Tourist information office
- 1 Tourist Office Place Communale 1, 1457 Walhain,
32 10 65 32 16, e-mail : [email protected] – Contact Ms. Isabelle Labyoit
To go
Circulate
To see
- 1 Central Belgium (place called "Le Tiège") – The center of the country is materialized by a metal structure, the work of architect Bernard Defrenne. The coordinates, calculated on the Hayford ellipsoid by Jean-Georges Affholder
- Marette farm – place where on June 18, 1815 the French general Emmanuel de Grouchy stopped to install his headquarters and would have finished his lunch with a plate of strawberries at the table of the notary Höllert. Grouchy thus strictly respected Napoleon's order to march on Wavre (too slowly it is true) and not to "march to the cannon" while he heard the fighting of Mont-Saint-Jean. This absence of Grouchy and his troops of 30,000 was decisive for the victory of the Duke of Wellington and the allied troops.
- 2 Tumuli of Libersart (the graves) – Two mounds of earth located on either side of rue des Tumuli. They attest to the presence of a vicus around the 2nd century AD. The two sites were excavated in 1911 and 1920 by the Archaeological Society of Brussels. They seem to have been looted before these modern excavations.
- 3 Walhain Castle – Ruined castle.
- 4 Alvaux Tower Hévillers
- 5 Tiège mill
- Nile Castle Saint-Martin
