The giant's grave

The "Tomb of the Giant" is classified "exceptional heritage of Wallonia" and "natural heritage of landscape interest". He is without doubt one of the best known and photographed in Belgium with this superb loop of a wild Semois.

According to legend, there is buried a giant Treviso who, refusing to be a prisoner of the Romans after the Battle of the Sambre, preferred to throw himself into the void at the "Rocher des Gattes" rather than go to die in the arenas of the Colosseum .

According to Louis Charpentier, it would be an "Isore" place, reminiscent of the Egyptian Osiris who accompanied the pharaoh. It is also a historic site traversed by a path once taken by Germans leaving for the "happy islands" of the west. It was still practiced in 1914 and 1940 by Prussian and German troops. These Germans have left their name at the ford of Germowez and the nearby forest.

Nearby, the Châteaumont site was part of the property of the lords of Botassart.

On the left, the slope facing us is called the Bichetour, one of the seven "Ardenne forests" which belonged to the Ardenne-Verdun family, the ancestors of Godefroid de Bouillon. The beech forest contains the legendary site of the "Jean Lecomte hole".

At the foot, it is the Rivage mill, which was once operated by the "Grand Ruisseau" and which waits for a wheel to be redone.