Le château de La Roche-en-Ardenne est un château fort situé en Wallonie dans la ville belge de La Roche-en-Ardenne en province de Luxembourg. Il est une image emblématique de cette province. Bâti sur une arête rocheuse, il dominait ainsi une boucle de l'Ourthe.
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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 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.
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Rendeux is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium.
On 1 January 2007 the municipality, which covers 68.83 km2, had 2,274 inhabitants, giving a population density of 33 inhabitants per km2.
The municipality consists of the following districts: Beffe, Hodister, Marcourt, Wallonia, and Rendeux.
The village of Rendeux lies in the valley of the River Ourthe in an area which attracts visitors both for its natural environment and for such nearby medieval villages as La Roche and Durbuy. The Hermitage and chapel of Saint-Thibaut is located in Rendeux on a hill overlooking the Ourthe river valley.
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Beffe is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Rendeux, located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium.
The Ourthe river flows alongside Beffe.