This is worth the visit if you are have interest in history, are looking for a peaceful environment…read morefor tranquility and/or exploration, or love photography. As of 2024, the ticket for 1 adult is 10 euros.

What a wonderful experience. If you're trying to figure out some tourist things to do, This place…read moreshould be on the list. If you have a car or time on a weekend to figure out the public transportation route here, there's a train stop which you can walk to here from the train stop this place was such a great family activity. The history behind this Abbey was great to explore as well as walking around the ruins. There were plenty of places to sit and rest. You can go to the second floor of the abbey where monks used to sleep. We learned about bleeding (which was very interesting) and the timeline of this place really put the abbey and its age into perspective. This place have plenty of places to have quiet time and is a great place for a date if you're ever looking for a date spot.

I was traveling with my two college-aged children, and after touring the Memorial Museum we headed…read moreto the Fort to see more. First benefit - free parking! Yay! There was a fair amount of parking spaces, so that made things easy. When you enter the fort, you are given the option of paying for the headset audio guide, or getting a laminated handout for free that you return at the end of your tour. We decided on the handout, and it worked just fine for us. Occasionally we lost our place on the handout, but from an informational standpoint it presented lots of great information and allowed us to travel through the fort at probably a quicker pace than if we had to stand and listen to everything. This fort is very old, and quite frankly in disrepair. This is not a polished museum - you really see it as it was when it was used. The walls/floors are damp, and the ceiling does a fair share of dripping so be prepared! We really enjoyed exploring inside the fort and looking through all the gun vantage points, and then went outside and spent a fair amount of time climbing all over the fort exploring the outer areas as well. The landscape still shows the bomb craters from all the bombing, which makes the battle so much more real. It is definitely worth a stop!

This village northeast of Verdun in the Meuse is a "non-place", a former community of 422 farmers…read moreand woodsmen that was utterly destroyed during the World War I Battle of Verdun, from February through October, 1916. The hero of Verdun, Henri Pétain, was a hero in part because he favored artillery over human bodies as a defensive strategy. So for all the frightful casualties of this campaign - 100,000 bodies were later found littering the fields of this sector alone - things might have gone worse for the French poilus, if Pétain had not used artillery to hold the German advance. But the cost was the complete obliteration of nine villages, Fleury-devant-Douaumont among them. Today, you reach the village by a road through a forest where not one single tree pre-dates the battle. On the right, there is a restricted zone where tank crews train. Where the road peters out, you come upon a moonscape with markers for streets and houses and young trees sprouting out of shellholes. It is a sobering place, to say the least. After the war, the French Premier Henri Poincaré came through here and thanked the villages of "la Zone rouge" for their sacrifice. When you stand at the junction in this ghost village, Poincaré's gesture rings well-intentioned but a bit pointless.

From the owner: Un bain de verdure La maison du Bocage est installée dans une ancienne maison de maître de la fin…read moredu XIXème siècle et ses annexes agricoles (grange, étable). Elle présente le patrimoine naturel de l'Avesnois, et notamment le bocage, paysage né de la volonté des hommes.

This monument also known as The Battle of the Bulge Memorial is next door to the Bastogne War…read moreMuseum. It is an outside structure in the shape of a 5 pointed star. On the walls of the monument are the names of US States along with the names of the different US military units that were involved in the battle. During my visit the gates were locked due to some renovation going on inside so I was only able to observe from the outside. Surrounding the monument are many concrete benches for sitting and taking in the views of not only the impressive monument but also the beautiful Belgium countryside visible from that location. This monument is managed by the American Battle Monuments Commission who also manage all of the foreign based military cemetery's that include US war dead. There is no cost to visiting other than possibly having to pay for parking at the museum next door. Budget 20 minutes to visit here. Best time to visit is immediately before or after visiting the Bastogne War Museum next door.

Powerful monument to the Battle of the Bulge, marking the efforts of the American forces to hold…read moreoff the Germans later in the war. There's a sign with the full inscription in French, English, and German. There's an eagle statue for the 101st Airborne. The monument is imposing and dignified with the full story of the campaign etched in the internal facets. Each of the United States is engraved on the outer upper facets of the star. The monument is placed on the ridge, overlooking the surrounding hills, where the battle was fought. The crypt has a bright mural, a good space for reflection on the sacrifices of human kind during war.

This little (compared to many I have visited) chateau has a big history and is still occupied by…read morethe Prince of Chimay and his wife (or so I was told). You can of course take a tour of the chateau. This is done on your own, but you are given an ipad where you follow the map, press the buttons and learn about different aspects of the chateau, as well as the history. Most impressive was the little theater that is located inside. It is used still for musical concerts (classical) and possibly other events. At the end of the tour there is an interesting movie shown in the theater and it is in 3D, which was pretty entertaining. The chateau is worth a visit.

From the owner: Après un sommeil de plus d'un an, et une belle rénovation, la magie de Chimay va reprendre ses…read moredroits. Découvrez le parcours entièrement transformé, suivez la famille princière sur votre guide numérique. Ecoutez les conseils d'Enguerrand le preux... et découvrez 1000 ans d'histoire à travers un spectacle 3D haletant!