The best traffic-free bike rides around Grez-Doiceau

This tour goes for kilometers through the forest. In spring it is beautiful with the hyacinths and wood anemones. In summer nice and cool.

Two important lordships formed the basis of the current Hoeilaart: the lordship of Ter Heyde south of the IJse on the one hand, and the lordship of Holaer or Hoeilaart north of the IJse on the other. Here once stood the castle of the Ter Heyde lordship from the fifteenth century. That lordship ceased to exist after the abolition of the ancien régime. The current castle was built in 1858 on the orders of baron Jean de Man d’Attenrode (mayor of Hoeilaart from 1854-1878) and his wife Maria Carolina d’Ormesson. It is therefore not a remnant of the old lordship. BUT: the chapel and former closed farm next to it are. This building has now, as others have mentioned, been given a different function and dominates the view in the park. Inventory of Immovable Heritage: Kasteel van Hoeilaart, https://id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/39785

Enjoy the open landscape.

Church of Tourinnes-La-Grosse...

Coming from Pecrot it is steepest...

It's a shame the bike path could be better. It's not ideal with luggage. Narrow and noisy along the road, but more of a mountain bike trail at the edge of the forest.

The summer lime and the associated field chapel are situated at a five-way intersection of largely cobbled, old roads, just southeast of the village center of Duisburg. The lime is centrally located at the intersection, the chapel is located slightly above street level in the verge on the corner of Huldenbergstraat and Keersmakersstraatje. The tree and the field chapel have been standing in an open arable landscape for many years. The summer lime, probably planted in the first half of the 18th century, is very vital and shows few defects or damage. The chance that it concerns indigenous genetic material is therefore high. It also forms a defining object in the undulating arable landscape south of Duisburg. It not only has a beautiful representative growth form, it is also the highest, thickest and oldest summer lime in the region. In addition, it forms a unity with the field chapel and the rural roads that converge at the foot of the tree. The field chapel with which the summer lime forms a unit is dedicated to Saint Barbara. It was built in 1863 and renovated in 1987 by Peter Troberg, following his father's (unfulfilled) promise to build a chapel in Oberbayern (Germany) if his family survived the Second World War. A chapel is already shown at this location on the Atlas der Buurtwegen (1843-1845), so it is possible that the chapel was built to replace an older one. Based on an old photo, the chapel was in a very dilapidated state before the restoration; it was not cemented at that time and the roof had completely disappeared. Today it is a cemented pillar chapel, preceded by a staircase of four natural stone steps. The front gable shows false joints and a barred pointed arch niche in a painted classicist frame. At the top, a facade stone added during the restoration states "1863/ H. BARBARA/ patroness against/ sudden death". At the bottom, a difficult to read inscription refers to the restoration "Anno/ Restauratum/ 1984". Inside, the niche is polychrome painted with imitation glass windows on the side walls and an image of Saint Barbara with the caption "Troberg ex voto patris 1999" on the back wall; this painting was done by the Peruvian Domingo Huaman. Inventory of Immovable Heritage: Field chapel and summer lime tree, https://id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/210653

The Moulin du Tiège is a charming, historic watermill located in the peaceful surroundings of the Ardennes. This old mill, surrounded by greenery and situated on a babbling brook, has an authentic character that recalls times gone by.