Heid de Gros Bois

Heid de Gros Bois is a locality in Trooz, Liège, Wallonia. Heid de Gros Bois is situated nearby to the locality Pré au Stokai, as well as near À la Mère-Dieu.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Château de Haute-Fraipont and Fraipont railway station.

Château de Haute-Fraipont

Castle

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Château de Haute-Fraipont is a castle.

Fraipont railway station

Railway stop

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Fraipont railway station is a railway stop.

The Fort de Tancrémont is a Belgian fortification located about 3 kilometres south of Pepinster. The fort was built in the 1930s as part of the fortified position of Liège, augmenting the twelve original forts built to defend Liège in the 1880s with four more forts closer to the Belgian frontier with Germany. Fort de Tancrémont is situated 4 km east of Heid de Gros Bois.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Banneux and Stinval.

Banneux

Village

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Banneux is a village of Wallonia in the municipality of Sprimont, district of Louveigné, located in the province of Liège, Belgium. It is known because of the reported Marian apparitions of Our Lady of Banneux, also known as Our Lady of the Poor, to a young girl called Mariette Beco.