Spiennes

Spiennes is a small village with about a thousand inhabitants in , close to . The town itself is mostly an attraction for what it once was, that being the foremost Neolithic production centre of pre-historic Europe.
  • Village with about 950 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 40 metres (140 feet)
  • Description: Belgian locality
  • Postal code: 7032

Places of Interest

Highlights include Neolithic flint mines of Spiennes and Trouille.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mons and Hyon.
is the capital of the province of , in the region of .
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Latitude
50.4255° or 50° 25′ 32″ north
Longitude
3.9869° or 3° 59′ 13″ east
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Open location code
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Belarusian to Walloon—“Spiennes” goes by many names.
  • Belarusian: “Старажытныя шахты Сп’ен”
  • Bulgarian: “Спиенес”
  • Catalan: “Spiennes”
  • Cebuano: “Spiennes”
  • Chinese: “斯皮耶讷”
  • Croatian: “Spiennes”
  • Czech: “Spiennes”
  • Dutch: “Spiennes”
  • Finnish: “Spiennes”
  • French: “Spiennes”
  • Georgian: “სპიენი”
  • German: “Spiennes”
  • Hebrew: “ספיין”
  • Hungarian: “Spiennes”
  • Irish: “Spiennes”
  • Italian: “Spiennes”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Spiennes”
  • Norwegian: “Spiennes”
  • Polish: “Spiennes”
  • Portuguese: “Spiennes”
  • Romanian: “Spiennes”
  • Russian: “Спьен”
  • Russian: “Спьенн”
  • Serbian: “Спијен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Spiennes”
  • Slovak: “Spiennes”
  • Spanish: “Spiennes”
  • Swedish: “Spiennes”
  • Turkish: “Spiennes”
  • Walloon: “Spiene”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Petit Spiennes and Camp-à-Cayaux.

Hainaut: Highlights

Learn more about Charleroi and Mons.
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