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View of the surroundings How can we not be seduced by the beauty of the panorama that is offered to us in this place? You can see the whole village and in the distance the Haute Ardenne and, towards the...

The Proximus antenna The tower was originally designed by Belgacom to serve as a relay for the mobile phone and microwave networks, as well as for the introduction of GSM, which was then in the making. This ridge, which dominates...

Place de la Fontaine : l’Aermotor Vers 1910, une Aermotor (éolienne fabriquée au Texas) fut installée au lieu-dit bien nommé « La Fontaine ». Son rôle était de pomper l’eau du puits et de la propulser au-dessus du village dans un château d’eau...

The seigniorial house (fortified house), now the Piérard farm Under the Ancien Régime, Tohogne was attached to the important seigneury of Durbuy. It is therefore not surprising to find an old seigneurial house (fortified house) built probably in the 15th...

The Romanesque church of Saint-Martin The church of Tohogne was undeniably built on a Gallo-Roman and Frankish site, in a remarkable grid pattern in the centre of the village. Already in the 7th century, the village was a high place...

The sickhouse of La Hesse At the top of the hill between Tohogne and the section of Longueville, the tiny hamlet of La Hesse attracts the attention of passers-by. On the initiative of, or at least thanks to the generosity...

About the many vaulted entrances in the village A local peculiarity is the large number of vaulted barn entrances (årvôs) that still exist in Tohogne. There are still about 60 of them, although there are only three large farms left....

Departure The former municipality of Tohogne included the sections of Verlaine, Hinonsart, Hermanne, La Bourlotte, Warre, Longueville, Coquaimont, Tohogne, La Hesse, Grand and Petit-Houmart. Tohogne is situated in the centre of a fertile massif almost entirely bypassed by two rivers:...