Bastogne

Bastogne (in Dutch Bastenaken ) is a French-speaking city of Belgium, located in Walloon region, chief town of district in Province of Luxembourg, to 2 km of the Luxembourg border.

The first January 2002, the commune of Bastogne had a population of 13  739 people (6  805 men and 6  934 women). Its entire surface is of 174 km ² for a Population density of 78,96 inhabitants per km ². Bastogne is also located on the famous cycle race Liege-Bastogne-Liege.

History of Bastogne

The city was in the center of the Bataille of the Ardennes during winter 44/45.

One finds there a museum, the Bastogne Historical Center where one can find one of the most important collections of the Second world war.

This museum is installed on the site of the Memorial of Mardasson.

Bastogne is not extremely far away from the watershed which separates the basins slopes from the Rhine and the Meuse.

This line constitutes one of the ways used as of prehistory by the nomads, recovery then by the Romans.

Although in the neighborhoods of Bastogne one finds traces which go up at the time Celt and Roman the first document writes date of year 634. It is about a gift made by the Diacre Grimon with the abbey Saint-Maximin of Trier.

Bastogne was surrounded by ramparts comprising approximately 15 turns of which only one remains, the door of Truces.

The commune of Bastogne comprises a small hamlet, Livarchamps, composed of some house, a vault and a country cottage. There is a brook which runs in bottom of the village.

Old communes

Bastogne, Longvilly, Noville, Villers-the-Good-Water and Wardin.

Hamlet

Livarchamps, Lutrebois, Foy

Common neighbors

Fauvillers, Houffalize, Be worth-on-Sure, Bertogne

Personality related to the city

Gallery

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