La Crapaute
La Crapaute is a work of art in Wavre, Arrondissement of Nivelles, Wallonia. La Crapaute is situated nearby to the library Les bibliothèques du réseau de Wavre, as well as near the community center Infor Famille Brabant Wallon.- Type: Work of art
- Artwork type: statue
- Description: fountain in Wavre, Belgium
- Also known as: “Crapaute”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Wavre 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.
City hall of Wavre
Town hall
Photo: EmDee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
City hall of Wavre is a town hall, which is situated 310 metres southwest of La Crapaute.
Wavre railway station
Railway station
Photo: Smiley.toerist, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wavre railway station is situated 480 metres southwest of La Crapaute.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ottenburg and Rosières.
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 La Crapaute.
Rosières
Village
Photo: Djozewal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rosières is a village, which is situated 4½ km northwest of La Crapaute.
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.
La Crapaute
- Categories: fountain, tourist attraction, statue, and tourism
- Location: Wavre, Arrondissement of Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Wallonia, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
50.71796° or 50° 43′ 5″ northLongitude
4.61111° or 4° 36′ 40″ eastInception
1987Open location code
9F26PJ96+5COpenStreetMap ID
node 8753327408OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=fountainOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=statueWikidata ID
Q106923706
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to French—“La Crapaute” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Crapaute”
- Dutch: “La Crapaute”
- French: “Crapaute”
- French: “La Crapaute”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Les bibliothèques du réseau de Wavre and Infor Famille Brabant Wallon.
Nearby Places
Explore places such as Hôtel de l’Escaille and Centre Public d’Action Sociale de Wavre.
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