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Bike rides
Get on your bike and explore Walloon Brabant and its tourist sites on two wheels!
Whether with family, friends or as a couple, enjoy some relaxing times in the great outdoors in a remarkable setting.
Stop off in a “Bikes welcome” establishment: you will not be disappointed by the welcome!
Bike rides...
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WB by bike - In the footsteps of lords
Description
This ride, whose particularity is to form an eight, allows you to divide your effort into two, with the first virtue of offering yourself a good breath of fresh air that costs nothing other than the energy to pedal! There are small roads and bucolic greenways winding between the villages. Several original heritage elements will allow you to discover local history during your stops. Let us quote for example the cross of Saint-Géry, the cemetery military of Chastre or the Drève Chévequeue in Walhain which borrowed the name of the ri whose route it follows.
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Points of interest
Chapelle Sainte-Rita et Saint-Ghislain
Une Autre Histoire
Halfway between Louvain-la-Neuve and Gembloux, the restaurant offers seasonal French cuisine with a contemporary flavour. Pleasant villa next to fields. Shady terrace with a great clear view. Accessible for persons with reduced mobility.
Cimetière militaire - Nécropole française de Chastre
Ferme Robert
Butter and raw milk producer, direct from the farm.
L'église Notre-Dame de Cortil-Noirmont
La Fraise du Piroy
Local producer of strawberries in Chastre in Walloon Brabant.
Boulangerie Hayet
This bakery was among the 100 best bakeries in Wallonia in 2021 and was voted the Region's favorite bakery-pastry shop in 2022.
Moura
The Moura restaurant in Walhain offers a wide choice of oriental specialities, particularly Syrian.
Pizzeria Fabrizio
Want a good pizza in a lush, family setting?The warm atmosphere of Pizzeria Fabrizio welcomes you every night of the week.Discover the taste of the pizzas prepared with quality ingredients that make for a truly authentic pizzeria. Terrace and pretty garden at the rear.Take your pizza to go or eat it here.
La Ferme Rose, ou de Perbais, ou du Castillon
Office Du Tourisme De Walhain
The Tourist Office is in the town hallThe entrance is through the little garden at the back of the building. Accessible for people with reduced mobility.Walhain is ‘bicycle friendly’ and has equipment for making small repairs at the bicycle shelter.The Tourist Office recommends nice walks and bike rides for you with various maps and circuits provided.
French Museum dedicated to the Battle of Gembloux
The 1st French Army Museum at Cortil Noirmont is set in the classrooms of the former school where, in May 1940, a Moroccan regiment decided to base its headquarters due to the combat that was breaking out in the region. The teachers were asked to evacuate...The museum looks back at the operations carried out in 1940 by the French army in Belgium through numerous military artefacts. On display are weapons, ammunition, uniforms, documents from the time, maps, etc. You can learn about operations undertaken by the Belgian, French and British armies as part of the “Dyle manoeuvre”. The French army fought heroically there.It is also possible to combine visiting the museum with visiting the necropolis and battlefield.
Geographical centre of Belgium
Did you know that the geographical centre of Belgium is in Walloon Brabant, and more specifically in Walhain? In the locality of Tiège, in the valley of the Nil river, a metallic structure has been erected at this precise point. It was built by an architect from the municipality and includes various symbols that are unique to Belgium:- the base represents the Earth’s crust,- the triangle is a simplified diagram of Belgium,- the three pylons symbolise the three regions.Before the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, the centre of Belgium was in Ittre as the three cantons in the east were not yet part of the kingdom.