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Street Art by Hello Collective – Bilquin de Cartier Castle loop from Charleroi-Central
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Street Art by Hello Collective – Bilquin de Cartier Castle loop from Charleroi-Central
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Street Art by Hello Collective – Bilquin de Cartier Castle loop from Charleroi-Central
03:19
12.9km
60m
Hiking
Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: June 11, 2026
Waypoints
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Start point
Train Station
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427 m
Statue of the Worker
Highlight • Monument
2
655 m
Charleroi South Station
Highlight • Monument
The neoclassical station was built during the great industrial heyday. Following the example of the Paris East station, glass and steel were used.
Source: pivotmedia.tourismewallonie.be/OTH-A0-006O-5HIE/OTH-A0-006O-5HIE.pdf
Source: pivotmedia.tourismewallonie.be/OTH-A0-006O-5HIE/OTH-A0-006O-5HIE.pdf
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655 m
Statue - The Crouching Miner
Highlight • Monument
Work by Constantin Meunier
Source: charleroi-discovery.be | The crouching miner and the resting blacksmith / F. Dierick
Source: charleroi-discovery.be | The crouching miner and the resting blacksmith / F. Dierick
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1.02 km
Street Art by Hello Collective
Highlight • Monument
Realized for Asphalt #1 urban art biennale Charleroi in 2014
The collective Hello intervened on metal cladding in the lower part of the city where he cast an ironic look, both raw and tender, on our habits and customs civilized humanoids.
Bron: StreetArtCities
The collective Hello intervened on metal cladding in the lower part of the city where he cast an ironic look, both raw and tender, on our habits and customs civilized humanoids.
Bron: StreetArtCities
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1.95 km
Industrial heritage and Urban Dream street art, Sambre River, Charleroi
Highlight (Segment) • Structure
Take the towpath, go past the lock infrastructure to enter what was called the belly of the Charleroi steel industry. On the other side of the Sambre, a grapple pulls scrap metal from barges intended for the steel production of the RIVA factory, formerly Thy-Marcinelle and Thy-le-Château. Kilometers of factories, footbridges, and motionless ore conveyors converge towards a blast furnace at a standstill. Along the Providence shore, sounds, shapes, and colors respond to the ghost factories: an “Urban Dream” street art zone and a customized overhead metro line. It faces the Rockerill, named after the fusion of rock and Cockerill steel, between garage punk and labeled electro. The vegetation here takes on the color of rust. The waters flow to the Industeel cooler, a sign of life from the other steelworks in operation, as evidenced by the pieces of scrap metal littering the towpath. After the overhead metro bridge over the Sambre, ignore an access to the Place de Marchienne on the left. Continue along the towpath, pass under the Sambre bridge. You are in the boatmen's district. Just after the boat-chapel, the Boucle Noire takes a centuries-old alley on the left. It will take you to the centre of the town. (Café le Vieux Marchienne and all resources, Métro Cartier)
cheminsdesterrils.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/boucle-noire-le-topo2.pdf
cheminsdesterrils.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/boucle-noire-le-topo2.pdf
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4.97 km
Chapel boat
Highlight • Religious Site
Chapel boat Spes Nostra (on the Sambre in Marchienne-au-Pont). A church ship or chapel boat is a ship that facilitates pastoral care for sea fishermen and shipping or in coastal areas.
Although the visit to the naves in Western Europe has fallen sharply in 2012, there are still church naves in use here and there in Europe, such as the Antwerp Church ship St Joseph, the Liège chapel boat Emmaüs and the 'skipper's church' Je Sers in Conflans-Sainte- Honorine. These are stationary ships, in contrast to the four hospital church ships De Hoop that sailed in the North Sea between 1898 and 1988. Church aldermen in Belgium fall under the Schippers Apostolate, which comes under the Archdiocese of Mechelen.
Although the visit to the naves in Western Europe has fallen sharply in 2012, there are still church naves in use here and there in Europe, such as the Antwerp Church ship St Joseph, the Liège chapel boat Emmaüs and the 'skipper's church' Je Sers in Conflans-Sainte- Honorine. These are stationary ships, in contrast to the four hospital church ships De Hoop that sailed in the North Sea between 1898 and 1988. Church aldermen in Belgium fall under the Schippers Apostolate, which comes under the Archdiocese of Mechelen.
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5.09 km
Bilquin de Cartier Castle
Highlight • Castle
History:
Origins of the château can be traced back to the 17th century, around 1635, when the Honoré family builds a castle on the Sambre river bank. The place had formerly been occupied by a seigneurial manor which was destroyed on 21 July 1554.
In 1667, the unfinished Spanish fortress of Charleroy is captured by Louis XIV's troops during the War of Devolution. As the castle in Marchienne was located in neutral territory (under authority of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège), it was used as a hospital for both French and Spanish soldiers.
In 1695, the castle is bought by Guillaume de Bilquin,[1] a wealthy forge owner, who completes and enhances it. In 1717, his daughter, Marie-Agnès Bilquin, marries Jean-Louis Cartier, son of the general treasurer of the prince-bishop of Liège. As such, the castle becomes the property of the Cartier de Marchienne family.
In 1740, the castle hosts Remacle Le Loup, a famous draftsman from the Liège region. It is severely damaged by a fire in 1932, and bought over by the municipality of Marchienne-au-Pont in 1938, ending more than two centuries of ownership by the Cartier family.
Marguerite Yourcenar, a French novelist and essayist, and the first woman elected to the Académie française, is the daughter of Fernande de Cartier de Marchienne, from the Cartier family related to the Cartier castle. She visited the castle in Marchienne-au-Pont in 1956, and mentions her Cartier de Marchienne ancestry and the castle in her 1974 memoir Dear Departed: A Memoir (French: Souvenirs pieux).
The Cartier castle was listed on 21 August 1980.[2] It underwent restoration in phases between 1986 and 2001 (helped by ERDF[3]), after having been left in a sorry condition (infested by dry rot).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_Bilquin_de_Cartier
Origins of the château can be traced back to the 17th century, around 1635, when the Honoré family builds a castle on the Sambre river bank. The place had formerly been occupied by a seigneurial manor which was destroyed on 21 July 1554.
In 1667, the unfinished Spanish fortress of Charleroy is captured by Louis XIV's troops during the War of Devolution. As the castle in Marchienne was located in neutral territory (under authority of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège), it was used as a hospital for both French and Spanish soldiers.
In 1695, the castle is bought by Guillaume de Bilquin,[1] a wealthy forge owner, who completes and enhances it. In 1717, his daughter, Marie-Agnès Bilquin, marries Jean-Louis Cartier, son of the general treasurer of the prince-bishop of Liège. As such, the castle becomes the property of the Cartier de Marchienne family.
In 1740, the castle hosts Remacle Le Loup, a famous draftsman from the Liège region. It is severely damaged by a fire in 1932, and bought over by the municipality of Marchienne-au-Pont in 1938, ending more than two centuries of ownership by the Cartier family.
Marguerite Yourcenar, a French novelist and essayist, and the first woman elected to the Académie française, is the daughter of Fernande de Cartier de Marchienne, from the Cartier family related to the Cartier castle. She visited the castle in Marchienne-au-Pont in 1956, and mentions her Cartier de Marchienne ancestry and the castle in her 1974 memoir Dear Departed: A Memoir (French: Souvenirs pieux).
The Cartier castle was listed on 21 August 1980.[2] It underwent restoration in phases between 1986 and 2001 (helped by ERDF[3]), after having been left in a sorry condition (infested by dry rot).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_Bilquin_de_Cartier
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11.6 km
Mosaic Art by Charles Szymkowicz
Highlight • Monument
Here you will find two identical works of art: a mirrored twin work by the expressionistic painter from Charleroi, Charles Szymkowicz. It has the appropriate
name ‘Femme et enfant dans la ville’ (Woman and child in the city). It is an autobiographical mosaic that depicts the artist as a child as he shakes his mother's hand to go to the center of Charleroi via the Pont du Viaduc.
Source: belgiantrain.be/nl/travel-ideas/inspiration/discover-belgium/walks/charleroi
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name ‘Femme et enfant dans la ville’ (Woman and child in the city). It is an autobiographical mosaic that depicts the artist as a child as he shakes his mother's hand to go to the center of Charleroi via the Pont du Viaduc.
Source: belgiantrain.be/nl/travel-ideas/inspiration/discover-belgium/walks/charleroi
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12.9 km
End point
Train Station
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
6.02 km
2.62 km
2.21 km
1.36 km
450 m
224 m
Surfaces
6.17 km
4.86 km
1.45 km
403 m
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