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Hougoumont Castle

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Hougoumont Castle

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Hougoumont Castle

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Location: Braine-L'Alleud, Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

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Valerie

July 27, 2020

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The Château d'Hougoumont (also called "Goumont") is a walled farm, which was the scene of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. After being left to his own fate for a while, he was restored a few years ago and finally opened to the public in June 2015, exactly 200 years after the battle.

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Katrien

July 8, 2023

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After the Battle, most of Hougoumont's buildings were destroyed or set on fire. The walls of some of the buildings of the complex that had survived were riddled with shrapnel and bullet holes. The condition of the trees was appalling: torn branches and leaves, trunks torn apart. Little more than a ruin remained of the castle and it was of course uninhabitable. All that remains now are the foundations.

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David Howells

November 19, 2020

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Château d'Hougoumont (originally Goumont) is a walled farm compound, situated at the bottom of an escarpment near the Nivelles road in the Braine-l'Alleud municipality, near Waterloo, Belgium. The site served …

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Elevation 120 m

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Friday 15 May

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Max wind speed: 16.0 km/h

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Location: Braine-L'Alleud, Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

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