52 km | 64 km-effort
A long time ago, a lot of the men in Wavreille either worked as stone workers (in local quarries) or as stone masons. The quarry workers extracted the big blocks of grey and blue stone with the help of a turnkey winch that towed a cable. From 1850 onwards, stones from Wavreille were used to build roads and many of the houses in the area. The Saint-Peter's church was built with grey, blue-veined stones from neighboring quarries. A long time ago, every year, the village stone workers would carry the statue of Saint-Barbara, their patron saint, to the church.
While you’re on the Wavreille village square, you can admire the window- and door frames in Belgian stone. The amount of work that went into preparing the stone is quite obvious: the bush hammering in the middle (technique that produces a rough, pock-marked texture on the stone) and the chisel work along the edges (long lines chiseled in the stone outside).
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Randonnées de la Maison du Tourisme Famenne - Ardenne Ourthe & Lesse PRO
