Le col de Haussire est un col de l'Ardenne situé en Belgique au nord de La Roche-en-Ardenne (province de Luxembourg). Par sa longueur, sa pente moyenne et sa pente maximale, son versant sud-ouest est classé no 1 des cols et côtes de Wallonie.
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La Roche-en-Ardenne is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Luxembourg and the arrondissement of Marche-en-Famenne, Belgium. Lying beside a bend in the River Ourthe, the small town of La Roche-en-Ardenne is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Ardennes. Its name is derived from its position on a rock commanding the river.
On 1 January 2007 the municipality, which covers 147.52 km2, had 4,348 inhabitants, giving a population density of 29.5 inhabitants per km2.
The municipality consists of the following districts: Beausaint, Halleux, Hives, La Roche-en-Ardenne, Ortho, and Samrée. Other population centres include Bérismenil, Buisson, Cielle, Floumont, Herlinval, Hubermont, Lavaux, Maboge, Mierchamps, Mousny, Nisramont, Ronchampays, Ronchamps, Roupage, Thimont, Vecmont, and Warempage.
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The Battle of the Ardennes took place during the First World War fought on the frontiers of France, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg from 21 to 23 August 1914. The German armies defeated the French and forced their retreat. The battle was part of the larger Battle of the Frontiers, the first battle of the Western Front.
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The Ardennes, also known as the Ardennes Forest or Forest of Ardennes, is a region of extensive forests, rough terrain, rolling hills and ridges primarily in Belgium and Luxembourg, extending into Germany and France.
Geologically, the range is a western extension of the Eifel; both were raised during the Givetian age of the Devonian, as were several other named ranges of the same greater range.
The Ardennes proper stretches well into Germany and France and geologically into the Eifel; most of it is in the southeast of Wallonia, the southern and more rural part of Belgium. The eastern part of the Ardennes forms the northernmost third of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, also called "Éislek". On the southeast the Eifel region continues into the German state of the Rhineland-Palatinate.
The trees and rivers of the Ardennes provided the charcoal industry assets that enabled the great industrial period of Wallonia in the 18th and 19th centuries, when it was arguably the second great industrial region of the world. The greater region maintained an industrial eminence into the 20th century, after coal replaced charcoal in metallurgy. The strategic position of the Ardennes has made it a battleground for European powers for centuries; it was the site of major battles during both World Wars.
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The Hermitage and Chapel of Saint-Thibaut is a former hermitage and chapel dedicated to Saint Theobald of Provins, in the Belgian municipality of Rendeux. The chapel was built on the site of a ruined medieval castle. It houses a reliquary containing the supposed head of Saint Theobald. A hermit lived on the site until 1968. The chapel and hermitage are today run by a non-profit association, and are occasionally open to the public.
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Lake Nisramont is located in Wallonia in the south-east of Belgium on the river Ourthe in the municipality of La Roche-en-Ardenne, province of Luxembourg.
It is named after Nisramont, a village near the lake. The dam has a length of 116 m and is 16 m high. The volume of water is 3,000,000 m3 and the area of the lake is 0.47 km2. The dam has fish ladders and a hydro-electric power station. The dam was erected at the point where the Western Ourthe and Eastern Ourthe merge to form the Ourthe. The lake is a tourist attraction, with water sports, including canoeing and fishing.