VISITWallonia - The Ultimate Belgian Getaway

12/02/2025

When in Liège, do step in Saint Paul’s cathedral. The interior features Meuse bluestone, highlighted by yellow truffeau of Maastricht and Lorrain.

Don’t forget to look up 👀! The vaults are painted with exquisite 16th century leaves and branches, framed by yellow stone arches.

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10/02/2025

Pretty, right?

Hard to believe this poetic landscape near Liège, once was devoted to mining... The Terril du Gosson, which closed in 1966, eventually became a nature reserve. 9,500 thousand cubic metres of industrial waste turned into a little Eden.

The former retention tanks were used to create the wings of this incredible, 80 metres long dragonfly. They’re home to spawning toads, an endangered species Wallonia is keen to protect.

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09/02/2025

Sundays are for sunny strolls in Namur…

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08/02/2025

Belgian Luxembourg countryside, frost kissed, by ❄️

06/02/2025

Nearly 107 years later, Private Thioux, a Belgian soldier from WW1 (4ème Régiment de Chasseurs à Pied), whose grave had become lost, was properly commemorated in the churchyard of St Mary’s church in Westerham today.

Thanks to the efforts of a retired British Army officer, Mr Ewan Carmichael, this forgotten soldier has now an official recognition from the Belgian state.

After 8 years of research and communication with the Belgian War Graves Authorities, this came to a conclusion today, with a proper burial and identification.

After losing a foot on the battlefields in 1914, Private René Alphonse Thioux was evacuated to England. In 1915, he married a local lady and had a baby boy, born a couple of months before his passing due to TB.

From all of us in London, a big thank you to Mr Carmicheal and all those who commemorated Private Thioux today: Embassy of Belgium in the UK Belgian Army Royal British Legion Brussels Commonwealth War Graves Commission Visit Westerham Westerham Parish Church Musée Mémorial des Chasseurs à Pied "Le Prix de la Liberté" Royal British Legion Orpington & District Branch Belgische Monarchie Monarchie belge Belgian Monarchy The International Guild of Battlefield Guides

05/02/2025

Wallonia’s biggest light festival “Mons en Lumières” is back for an even more spectacular second edition.

Don't miss these amazing evenings of pure magic (February 6 to 9, from 7:00 p.m. to midnight): the city center of Mons will light up with around twenty light installations and projections, harmoniously integrated into the urban setting and the historic architecture.

Here is a glimpse...

05/02/2025

Discover Charleroi, “the city with art at its heart”...

03/02/2025

This stunning dome, in Namur, belongs to the Saint-Aubain Cathedral, an Italianate neoclassical building home to three 17th century paintings by Jacques Nicolaï, a follower of Rubens.

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02/02/2025

We have many fairy tale castles in Wallonia. Our of our favourite is the Château de Jehay, famous for its checkerboard walls and its tree-ringed moat...

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01/02/2025

Located in Falaen, at the confluence of the Flavion and Molignée, the ruins of the Montaigle castle will seduce the poet in you...
With a little imagination, you can picture it in all its glory, as it would have been in medieval times. Nature may have reclaimed it, but the site certainly retains an unequalled grandeur.

Flint tools found nearby, suggest men lived here in prehistoric times already. A small garrison is thought to have been built under the Roman empire, then a first castle in year 900. The one you can see today dates to the 14th century.

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01/02/2025

Stepping into Mons railway station is enough to feel like you have stepped into a futuristic movie…

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30/01/2025

🍃 Fancy a wander?

🥾 How about the Furfooz Park? The 4 km trail there will guide you through stunning woodlands, a Roman Bath, a fortified plateau used in medieval times and even a cave where men took shelter thousands of years ago...

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29/01/2025

Have you heard of Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience?

After a global tour which achieved tremendous success from New York to Singapore, with stops in London, Marseille, and Milan, the show now opens its doors for the first time in Liège.

The experience invites visitors to explore the story of the famous Dutch painter and offers the opportunity to rediscover his most important works through digital art and virtual reality: come and step in some of his more extraordinaty work...

More information: Van Gogh Experience

28/01/2025

Dinant by day is gorgeous.
But Dinant by night? What a sight…

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27/01/2025

Cheerfulness is part of the Walloon way of life. Folkloric traditions are still cherished in these modern times, and looked forward to with high anticipation...

To each month its celebration. February marks the beginning of a new season in the South of Belgium: carnivals.

Here are a few dates of simply iconic ones:

26/01/2025

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25/01/2025

Fascinated by WW2? Here is a fantastic tour, immersing you in the history of the Battle of the Bulge:

Join us on a solo travellers tour to the Battle of the Bulge battlefields in the Belgian Ardennes, seeing tanks, memorials, foxholes and more.