Wavre
Wavre is a locality in Wavre, Arrondissement of Nivelles, Wallonia and has about 34,300 residents. Wavre is situated nearby to the locality Sainte-Anne, as well as near the village Bierges.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 34,300 residents
- Description: city in Wavre municipality, Belgium
- Also known as: “the City of the Maca”, “Waver”, and “Wavres”
- Postal code: 1300
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wavre railway station and City hall of Wavre.
Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Wavre
Church
Photo: EmDee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Wavre is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rosières and Ottenburg.
Rosières
Village
Photo: Djozewal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rosières is a village, which is situated 4 km northwest of Wavre.
Ottenburg
Village
Photo: Wouterhagens, Public domain.
Ottenburg is a village in the municipality of Huldenberg in the province of Flemish Brabant, Belgium, close to the language border. The prehistoric earthwork, a long barrow known as de Tomme, is located here, identified in 2021 by archaeologists as the oldest such monument known in the Low Countries. Ottenburg is situated 4 km north of Wavre.
Louvain-la-Neuve
Photo: JNélis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Louvain-la-Neuve is a modern town in the province of Walloon Brabant in the French-speaking part of Belgium. It was created in 1969 in order to host the French-speaking faculties of the Catholic University of Louvain, which had just seceded from the Dutch-speaking faculties of the Catholic University of Leuven, and had to move from Flanders to Wallonia.
Wavre
- Category: city
- Location: Wavre, Arrondissement of Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Wallonia, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Walloon—“Wavre” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Уавър”
- Catalan: “Wavre”
- Cebuano: “Wavre”
- Chinese: “瓦夫爾”
- Dutch: “Waver”
- Esperanto: “Wavre”
- French: “la cité du Maca”
- French: “Waver”
- French: “Wavre”
- French: “Wavres”
- German: “Wavre”
- Greek: “Βαβρ”
- Irish: “Wavre”
- Japanese: “ワーヴル”
- Korean: “우아브르”
- Latin: “Vavria”
- Latin: “Wavre”
- Latin: “Wavria”
- Latvian: “Vavra”
- Limburgan: “Waver”
- Lithuanian: “Vavras”
- Norwegian: “Wavre”
- Persian: “وور”
- Picard: “Waver”
- Polish: “Wavre”
- Romanian: “Wavre”
- Russian: “Вавр”
- Serbian: “Вавр”
- Swedish: “Wavre”
- Ukrainian: “Вавр”
- Vlaams: “Waver”
- Walloon: “Aufe”
- Walloon: “Åve”
- Walloon: “Wåve”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Bois de Beumont and Bois de Manil.
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