Les Plus Beaux Villages de Wallonie
Les Plus Beaux Villages de Wallonie ( the most beautiful villages in Wallonia ) is a non-profit organization in Belgium that was founded in 1994 on the basis of the French association Les plus beaux villages de France . There are currently 31 villages in Wallonia that bear this label (August 2019).
Basic requirements for admission to this association are:
- The village must show a rural character.
- There must be at least one object in the village that is under monument protection
- The village must have an architectural and urban development heritage of recognizable value, which is determined by the criteria laid down for this purpose
- The administration and / or the local associations of the village must show the will to take care of the village heritage through concrete actions.
The objectives of the association are:
- The authenticity to preserve the village
- The elaboration of a permanent development plan
- To strengthen the network of the villages classified as valuable heritage and to promote their common presentation to the outside world
- To have the preservation of the characteristics of these typical villages guaranteed by various authorities
List of villages
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literature
- Michel Colinet: The most beautiful villages in the south of Belgium , Grenz-Echo Verlag, Eupen, Belgium, ISBN 978-90-5433-195-7
Web links
Commons : Les Plus Beaux Villages de Wallonie - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Les Plus Beaux Villages de Wallonie , website of the organization (fr, en, nl)
- Les plus beaux villages de Wallonie , TV report from RTBF , the public television for the French-speaking parts of Belgium (fr)
- Votre village est-il l'un des plus beaux de Wallonie? , Article in the online presence of RTBF (fr)
- Belgium: The beauties of Wallonia , online article at Spiegel Online , Hamburg (de)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Belgium: The Beauties of Wallonia , article in Spiegel Online of July 4th, 2002, accessed on August 26th, 2019
- ↑ Le réseau s'agrandit! My, village nouvellement labeled! , Article on the website of Les Plus Beaux Villages de Wallonie (fr), accessed on August 26, 2019