Culture et Heritage

"In Ardenne Bleue, "deep Wallonia" is not just a matter of geography.

"A predominantly rural countryside, Ardenne Bleue has lived for centuries at the heart of the fields and forests in the many villages gathered around their belltower or in shelter of an abbey or castle. Many of them have retained their traditional character. And it is not without reason that Soiron, Olne and Clermont can boast the label "most beautiful villages in Wallonia".

"ButArdenne Bleueis alsoa land of history.Religious when it relives the past of Stavelot Abbey. Epic when it remembers the episode when 600 warriors left the castle of Franchimont to fight the Duke of Burgundy at Liège. Dramatic when it relives the horrors of the Battleof the Bulge in the winter of 1944. Economic, when it evokes, through its rich heritage, the glory days of Verviers, global centre of the textile industry.”