Duration of a visit departing from Brussels: 3 hours.

Waterloo, the “morne plaine” (the gloomy field), as Victor Hugo called it, thanks its celebrity to the historic battle that took place here and ended with the final defeat of Napoleon in the battle of Mont-Saint-Jean thanks to the legendary input of the Duke of Wellington.

Although in reality most of the fights took place on the territory of neighbouring Braine l’Alleud and other surrounding places, history remembers it as the “Battle of Waterloo” and its central attraction is the Lion’s Mount.

28 tons of iron were used to manufacture the famous lion, now known all over the world. You will see the fierce animal on top of a fabricated cone of earth with a diameter of 169 meters. Dutchmen raised it presumably on the right side of the place where the Prince of Orange was wounded.

From the top of the “mount”, 40 meter or 226 steps high, you can contemplate the field where the famous and decisive Battle took place on June 18, 1815.
You will also visit: the Visitor’s Centre, the Wellington museum, the Napoleon museum, the Farm of Hougoumont, the Farm of la Haie Sainte, the Farm of Mont-St-Jean, several monuments.



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