Worldwide Tours: Belgium
Waterloo Tour
Lasted of a visit from Brussels: 3 hours.
Waterloo, the morne plaine of Victor Hugo, thanks its celebrity to the duke of Wellington.
From his headquarters, he drafted the message about the defeat of Napoleon in the battle of Mont - St - Jean or of the « Belle Alliance ».
Although most of the fights took place on the territory of Braine l’Alleud and the surrounding places, history commemorates it under the name of battle of Waterloo with the Lion’s Mount.
Celebrate all over the world, 28 iron tons were necessary to manufacture it. He is perched on a cone of earth of 169 meters of diameter that Dutchmen raised presumed right side up where the Prince of orange was wounded.
Of the top of the 40 meters of the mound and the 226 steps you can contemplate the field of Battle of June 18, 1815.
The first confrontations took place June 16, but it is the day of June 18 that was decisive for armies put in presence.
Visits:
- Center of the visitor
- Wellington museum
- Napoléon museum
- Farm of Hougoumont
- Farm of la Haie Sainte
- Farm of Mont - St - Jean
- Different monuments