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"The present castle of Walzin only dates from the sixteenth century, but certainly it is the most picturesque we have seen in Belgium." --In the Ardennes (1880) by Katharine Sarah Macquoid


"THIS book is not intended as a guide-book through the Belgian Ardennes, nor is it in any sense as complete in its information about this delightful and unfrequented province as Through Normandy is about Normandy. It is simply the record of a most picturesque journey taken through a part of the Ardennes last autumn, and it is hoped that this record of the knowledge therein gleaned with some difficulty may help other travellers in journeying through this beautiful region —so much overlooked by travellers." --In the Ardennes (1880) by Katharine Sarah Macquoid

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The Ardennes is a region of extensive forests, rolling hills and old mountains formed on the Givetian (Devonian) Ardennes mountains, primarily in Belgium and Luxembourg, but stretching into France (lending its name to the Ardennes département and the Champagne-Ardenne région), and geologically into the Eifel. In Wallonia, the word 'Ardenne' in the singular is commonly used. Ardenne is the origin of the great industrial period of Wallonia, the second of the world (18th, 19th and 20th centuries). In France, the word 'Ardennes' in the plural, together with the definite article, is commonly used to refer to the French Department of that name.

The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in eastern Belgium, northeast France, and Luxembourg, towards the end of the war in Europe.

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