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Braine l'Alleud is home to RCS Braine football club, founded in 1913 and one of the oldest continuously existing clubs in the country. The city also has a successful women's basketball club, BC Castors Braine. The free-to-play, 18-hole Parc du Bourdon disc golf course is situated 1 kilometer from Braine L'Alleud train station. [2]
Grand'Place 12-13, Braine-L'Alleud 25014-CLT-0013-01 Info. Gevels en daken van het oude raadhuis: Site of castle, abbey park, chapel of Saint-Sang, the farm and entrance building of the abbey Bois Seigneur-Isaac (nl) (fr) Eigenbrakel
The erection of the Lion's Mound, 1825. Engraving by Jobard, after a Bertrand drawing. [a]The Lion's Mound was designed by the royal architect Charles Vander Straeten, at the behest of King William I of the Netherlands, who wished to commemorate the location on the battlefield of Waterloo where a musket ball hit the shoulder of his elder son, King William II of the Netherlands (then Prince of ...
People from Braine-l'Alleud (15 P) Pages in category "Braine-l'Alleud" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
The Memorial, the Lion's Mound and the Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo stand on the northern edge of the Waterloo battlefield, along the Route du Lion (Lion's road), west of the chaussée de Charleroi, on the territory of Braine-l'Alleud, in the province of Walloon Brabant.
Also, in 1356, there is mention of the "tenure and house of Gomont" in the seigneury of Braine-l'Alleud. [ 5 ] According to Sir Walter Scott who visited the battlefield in January 1816, "Hougoumont (a name bestowed, I believe, by a mistake of our great commander [Wellington], but which will certainly supersede the more proper one of Chateau ...
Braine-l'Alleud railway station (French: Gare de Braine-l'Alleud; Dutch: Station Eigenbrakel) [a] is a railway station in Braine-l'Alleud, Walloon Brabant, Belgium, operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (SNCB/NMBS). The station is located on railway line 124, from Brussels-South to Charleroi-Central. [1]
Bois-Seigneur-Isaac Castle (French: Château de Bois-Seigneur-Isaac) is a stately home in Ophain-Bois-Seigneur-Isaac, Wallonia, part of the commune of Braine-l'Alleud, Walloon Brabant, Belgium. The present building dates from 1737, but the site is substantially older.