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Citadelle de Dinant
A cliff-top fortress towering over the Meuse and a riverfront of pastel houses below the bulbous onion-domed church.
19 km · about 20 min drive
Wallonia, Belgium · Europe
Schaltin works well as a base: 10 minutes from Natoye, 27km from Grottes de Han.
Schaltin is a town located in Wallonia, Belgium. With a population of 1,130, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Schaltin sits in Belgium, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Brussels time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Schaltin to your route.
Hamois (French pronunciation: [amwa]; Walloon: Hamwè) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Namur, Belgium.
The village is around 25 km (16 mi) south-east of the city of Namur.
On 1 January 2020 the municipality had 7,375 inhabitants. The total area is 76.42 km2, giving a population density of 96.5Read more
inhabitants per km2.
The municipality consists of the following districts: Achet, Emptinne, Hamois, Mohiville, Natoye, Schaltin, and Scy.
Mouffrin Castle in Gemenne and Ry Castle are both in Hamois, and continue to be in the possession of the noble Aspremont-Lynden family.
Multiple other castles, still owned and inhabited by other noble families, are spread all over the municipality. One of them, the Castle of Skeuvre, still owned and inhabited by the de Beaudignies family, is noticeably known as the "Spirou Castle", after Franquin got inspiration from it to create the Champignac castle that is depicted in these comics.
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Schaltin is located in Wallonia, Belgium, Europe. The coordinates are 50.3595 latitude, 5.1254 longitude.
Schaltin has a population of approximately 1,130 people, making it a town in Belgium.
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A cliff-top fortress towering over the Meuse and a riverfront of pastel houses below the bulbous onion-domed church.
19 km · about 20 min drive
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Clifftop fortress above the Meuse at Dinant, reached by 408 steps or a cable car, overlooking the river road.
19 km · about 20 min drive
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One of Europe's mightiest hilltop fortresses guards the confluence of the Sambre and Meuse rivers in Wallonia's capital.
22 km · about 25 min drive
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Extensive hilltop fortress at the Sambre-Meuse confluence in Namur, with a scenic road climbing to the ramparts.
22 km · about 25 min drive
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Billed as the smallest town in the world, a cluster of grey-stone houses and a castle in a green Ardennes valley.
23 km · about 25 min drive
natural wonder
A spectacular river cave system explored by tram and boat, the finest show caves in Belgium's Ardennes.
27 km · about 30 min drive
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A ruined feudal castle crowns this riverside town wrapped in a hairpin bend of the Ourthe, a base for Ardennes drives.
38 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
Ardennes hamlet reborn in 1984 as Europe's second 'book town', its barns and cottages housing a dozen second-hand bookshops, binderies and galleries, with the Euro Space Center just across the motorway.
39 km · about 45 min drive
April to October
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