Vallée de la Molignée

By following the Malignée we reach in 9km/5.5miles the ruins of the Château du Montaigle on a crag; built in the 13th C., it was destroyed in 1554 by the French.

A neo-gothic, Benedictine monastery founded in 1872. It sits in the Molignée valley.

Just beyond the Château du Montaigle a narrow road leads off to Falaën. Visitors to the 17th C. castle estate can see a small historical exhibition and try the local specialty bread.

Trips on the railway along the Molignée valley via a combination bicycle/rail car.

Ruins of a 13th-16th century castle and archaeology museum.

Furnaux is the terminus of the excursion into the valley of the Molignée. Here the local church is worth visiting, for it has an extremely artistic font of black marble. This was created around 1135 and shows the Baptism of Christ on the basin which is borne by four lions.

The Benedictines built an abbey in 1893 in Maredret. A little museum in the village shows varieties of timber, woodworking and rural life in the region between the Sambre and the Meuse.