Checking out Waterloo Battlefield Memorial! The grounds are 18Euros per Adult to enter. Tours cost extra. Everything you see in this video, you can do for free. We didn’t pay to go in. Great place to stop by and check out if travelling in the area! See mroe info below…
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Waterloo Battlefield
Address: Route du Lion 1815, 1420 Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium
Hours: Closes 6:30PM
Phone: +32 2 385 19 12
Established: May 22, 2015
The Memorial of Waterloo 1815 (Mémorial Waterloo 1815 in french) is a Belgian museum complex located on the site of the Waterloo battlefield in Belgium. It includes a museum inaugurated in 2015, the Lion’s Mound, the Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo and the Hougoumont farm.
The Memorial, the Lion’s Mound and the Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo stand on the northern edge of the Waterloo battlefield, along the Route du Lion (Lion’s road), west of the chaussée de Charleroi, on the territory of Braine-l’Alleud, in the province of Walloon Brabant.
The Hougoumont farm stands to the south-west of the aforementioned complex, at the end of a path that starts from the Panorama rotunda, called the Chemin des Vertes Bornes, which takes further the name Chemin du Goumont.
The surrounding area is rich in monuments celebrating the battle, such as the Monument to the Belgians, the Monument to the Hanoverians, the Gordon Monument, the 8th Line Infantry Regiment Stele, the 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot Stele and the Picton Stele.
This memorial depicts the events of the famous battle that led to the defeat of Emperor Napoleon in 1815, and is a true tribute to the 40,000 soldiers killed or wounded during the fights.
The memorial, with a surface area of 1500m²,[5] allows the visitor to live the history of the battle through dioramas, uniforms, historical objects, animated maps, a movie projected on a 25 m wide 3D panoramic screen, a treasure hunt and multimedia animations.
It also presents the skeleton of the “Waterloo Soldier”, discovered in 2012 during an archaeological investigation on the site of a new parking lot, and which probably belonged to a Hanoverian who died during the battle.
The memorial gives access to the Lion’s Mound (a 40-metre high monument erected in 1826 at the request of William I, King of the Netherlands, to mark the presumed spot where his eldest son, the Prince of Orange, was wounded on 18 June 1815), the rotunda of the Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo (built in 1911 by the architect Franz Van Ophem[2] to house the gigantic canvas constituting the panorama of the battle was painted by the French painter Louis-Jules Dumoulin in 1912 for the celebration of the first centenary of the battle[8]) and the Hougoumont’s farm (a fortified farm that was the scene of deadly fighting on June 18, 1815 and which hosts today a multimedia show).
Kléber Rossillon offers a host of activities to visitors: “the new activities will be immersive. With the installation of a bivouac at the foot of the hill. Small scenes will also be played throughout the day. A horse-drawn carriage will take visitors from the Memorial to the Hougoumont Farm. There will also be horse demonstrations. Children are not forgotten. They are invited to try handling weapons and military marching.”
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Video Title: Waterloo Battlefield Memorial – Napoleon Bonaparte (Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium)
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