Wayside Cross in Han/Tintigny – Seigneurie de Villemont loop from Virton
Wayside Cross in Han/Tintigny – Seigneurie de Villemont loop from Virton
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Wayside Cross in Han/Tintigny – Seigneurie de Villemont loop from Virton
04:02
48.3km
590m
Cycling
Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. You may need to push your bike for some segments of this route. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: August 2, 2026
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Start point
Train Station
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23.4 km
Wayside Cross in Han/Tintigny
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24.9 km
Church of Our Lady of the Assumption of Tintigny
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The church is set back from the rest of the village. It is accessible by a staircase, housing a war memorial for both World Wars, from a small square below. The building, oriented towards the east as is Christian tradition, stands in the middle of an enclosed cemetery. Houses are located on the south and east sides of the cemetery. The north side of the church, for its part, overlooks the landscape below, which includes the Semois river followed by meadows.
More than for its architecture, the church is particularly known for its Baroque furnishings that decorate the nave and the sanctuary, several pieces of which are explicitly dated 1733. This constitutes one of the most beautiful ensembles in the province of Luxembourg.
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25.7 km
Seigneurie de Villemont
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The Seigneurie de Villemont, total property without vassalage conditions (1270) of the County of Chiny, saw a large number of noble families succeed each other.
Residence of the Lord of Villemont, whose Seigneurie during the Ancien Régime extended over more than 6,000 hectares and encompassed the villages forming the current municipality of Tintigny (except Rossignol and Le Menil).
Since 1097, several families have succeeded each other at the head of Villemont. The oldest are the Wez, a family originating from Wez (currently spelled: Wé), a small village not far from Carignan: the Seigneurie was indeed part of the Archbishopric of Trier and the deanery of Yvoix (Carignan).
After the Wez, the Barbançon family took charge of the estate. Jean de Barbançon inherited the estate around 1400. Under the Barbançons, the estate was burned and looted several times by French soldiers who regularly invaded Luxembourg. The last of the family, Bonne de Barbançon, inherited the estate in 1612. She married Philippe de Mérode. The Mérode family owned Villemont until 1676.
By marriage, the estate became the possession of the illustrious Trazegnies family, and it remained so until the French Revolution. Obviously, over the centuries, the Seigneurie experienced all the eras that the Low Countries lived through: Catholic, Burgundian, Spanish, Austrian…
At the Revolution, the estate was partly sold to the d'Armethon family.
Then the castle belonged to the d'Huart family and currently to the de Jamblinne de Meux family.
On August 22, 1914, the castle was burned down and rebuilt in 1922, almost identically to the 18th-century castle.
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40.3 km
Saint Bernard Church; Meix-devant-Virton
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48.3 km
End point
Train Station
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
30.0 km
9.83 km
4.10 km
2.13 km
1.69 km
442 m
173 m
Surfaces
25.7 km
12.2 km
7.99 km
2.28 km
114 m
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Tuesday 18 August
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