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Grand-Hornu – The Suitcase Trees loop from Saint-Ghislain

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Belgium
Wallonia
Hainaut
Mons
Boussu

Grand-Hornu – The Suitcase Trees loop from Saint-Ghislain

Easy

5.0

(1)

25

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Grand-Hornu – The Suitcase Trees loop from Saint-Ghislain

01:38

6.32km

40m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: May 15, 2026

Waypoints

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Start point

Bus stop

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1

609 m

Grand-Hornu

Highlight • Historical Site

Grand Hornu is a former workers' settlement built in the 19th century during the heyday of coal mining in the Borinage. Today the ensemble functions as a kind of monument. …

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2

1.13 km

Borinage Line 98

Highlight • Cycleway

The RAVeL of the 98C line is a place full of life: people walk there, young parents let their children do their first somewhat awkward turns of the wheels, pétanque …

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1.20 km

The Line

Highlight • Monument

With, for background, the slag heap of Flache, a poetic sentence, in homage to Victor Hugo, floats
to highlight the horizon and invite the walker to get lost in the …

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4

1.41 km

The green line - ephemeral installations - 2019

Produced as part of the third edition of the biennial

“Fall willingly into the panel”,

the large artistic, associative and cultural gathering which animates line 98C of Ravel

in Quaregnon.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>

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5

1.61 km

The Suitcase Trees

Highlight • Monument

The Borinage was a land of migration, mining, a place where people hoped to find work, however difficult.
The trunk trees are an ironic representation of climbing masts.
The hope …

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6

2.14 km

At the doorstep

Highlight • Bridge

Imagine a symbolic place:
the entrance to the mine as a passage to a world where words do not have the same weight. There, the children began to dialogue with …

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7

4.10 km

"Immigrant woman, bridge between generations and cultures", work of Edith Barbieux at Grand-Hornu.

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4.93 km

Terril du Neuf (Sainte Désirée)

Forest

9

6.08 km

Bust of Henri De Gorge

Highlight • Monument

Henri Degorge: He first came to the Southern Netherlands in 1795, as a servant to the Intendency of the French occupying army of Sambre-en-Maas. In 1804 he was a coal …

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6.32 km

End point

Bus stop

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Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

3.22 km

2.36 km

454 m

288 m

Surfaces

3.79 km

1.51 km

610 m

178 m

164 m

< 100 m

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Friday 26 June

33°C

19°C

43 %

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