Chièvres
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- Type: Locality with 6,920 residents
- Description: city in Wallonia, Belgium
- Also known as: “51014”
- Neighbors: Ath
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chièvres Air Base and Basilica of Our Lady of Tongre.
Chièvres Air Base
Aerodrome
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Chièvres Air Base, also referred to as SHAPE Airfield at Chievres Air Base, is a NATO airfield operated by the United States Air Force. It is located 1 nautical mile east southeast of the Walloon town of Chièvres in the province of Hainaut, Belgium and about 12 mi from Headquarters, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, in Casteau.
Basilica of Our Lady of Tongre
Church
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The Basilica of Our Lady of Tongre is a Roman Catholic parish church and minor basilica in Tongre-Notre-Dame, Chièvres, Belgium. The shrine is small, yet rich in historical significance.
Attre Castle
Castle
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Attre Castle is a former castle, now a country house or château, in Attre in the municipality of Brugelette, province of Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cambron-Casteau and Ath.
Cambron-Casteau
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0.
Cambron-Casteau is a French-speaking village located in the Hainaut province of Belgium, mid-way between Brussels and Lille. Its most notable attraction, drawing over 1.7 million visitors per year, is animal park Pairi Daiza.
Ath
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Ath is a French-speaking town of about 30,000 inhabitants in the centre of western Hainaut, mid-way between Brussels and Lille in France. Famous for the annual Ducasse festival, this typically Belgian small town with architecture from different eras can make a nice daytrip from Brussels or Lille.
Attre
Village
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 2.5.
Attre is a village, which is situated 3½ km northeast of Chièvres.
Chièvres
- Categories: municipality of Belgium and Belgian municipality with the title of city
- Location: Arrondissement of Ath, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Zeeuws—“Chièvres” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Chièvres”
- Breton: “Chièvres”
- Bulgarian: “Шиевър”
- Catalan: “Chièvres”
- Cebuano: “Chièvres (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Chièvres”
- Chinese: “谢夫尔”
- Dutch: “Chievres”
- Dutch: “Chièvres”
- Esperanto: “Chièvres”
- French: “Chièvres”
- German: “Chièvres”
- Hungarian: “Chièvres”
- Irish: “Chièvres”
- Italian: “Chièvres”
- Japanese: “シエーヴル”
- Latin: “Cervia”
- Limburgan: “Chièvres”
- Luxembourgish: “Chièvres”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chièvres”
- Norwegian: “Chièvres”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Chièvres”
- Persian: “شیور”
- Picard: “Chieuve”
- Polish: “Chièvres”
- Portuguese: “Chièvres”
- Romanian: “Chièvres”
- Russian: “Шьевр”
- Slovak: “Chièvres”
- Slovenian: “Chièvres”
- Spanish: “Chievres”
- Spanish: “Chièvres”
- Swedish: “Chièvres (kommun i Belgien)”
- Swedish: “Chièvres”
- Turkish: “Chievres”
- Turkish: “Chièvres”
- Vietnamese: “Chièvres”
- Volapük: “Chièvres”
- Walloon: “Chieve”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chièvres”
- Zeeuws: “Chièvres”
- “Chièvres”
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