6 km | 7.1 km-effort
Note the block of marble on the car park.
Marble is present in abundance in the Walloon sub-soil. This calcareous material can easily be beautifully polished, and is present here in two types: solid black with a somewhat metallic aspect, used as of the Middle Ages, and red-veined. The “Saint Remy” blue is an example of spotted marble, in varying shades of pink with bluish-grey plaques and lighter veins.
It is likely that Saint Remy marble was used as of the middle of the 15th century. The blocks were extracted from the quarry, squared up on the spot (some of the smaller pieces must certainly have been worked on in situ), loaded onto chariots, and laboriously transported. Namur, Dinant, and their fluvial port were privileged stops in this trajectory. The most beautiful realisations in marble of Saint Remy are incontestably those of the 18th century
Walking
Randonnées de la Maison du Tourisme Famenne - Ardenne Ourthe & Lesse PRO
