Places of interest

Guest Rooms in the Ardennes

The city of Stavelot, with its impressive history, belongs to the cultural inheritance and has a discrete charm. One of the oldest abbeys in Belgium goes back to 648 when Sigebert, the King of the Franks, instructed Saint Remacle, a monk from Limoges, to evangelise the region. The name of the place originally goes back to an order the famous saint has given to the wolf that constantly followed him. A stave leu! In Walloon this means: ‘Go to your stable, wolf!’ This saying finally resulted in the word Stavleu...Stavelot.

For now tourism is the most important attraction: the abbey with its many places of recreation, the many museums, the monuments and the typical alleys, the famous Laetare and the ‘Blancs Moussis’, the theatre festival in July and the music festival in August, many walking and hiking possibilities.

Spa, the city with the purest water is famous as a health resort and a spa. The city also has interesting museums and picturesque corners.

Coo, the waterfalls and the recreational parc ‘Plopsa Coo’.

Saint-Vith is the centre of the southern part of the German speaking community. Small villages near the Luxembourg and the German border surround it.