Clermont-sur-Berwinne : Walk of the Béolles

Surrounded by enclosed expanses of pastureland, the village stands at the summit of a promontory which dominates the church. The use of brick for the walls, slate for the saddleback roofs and stone for the frameworks of the windows and the right-angle quoins characterise the architecture of the whole village.To break up the simplicity of the buildings, decorative research has been applied to the slates. Windvanes dominate the roofs and bear witness to an art of ironwork brilliantly executed. Worth of seeing:• St-Jacques-le-Majeur church (17th-century) and its cemetery,• Place de la Halle• The Old Town Hall (1888), which goes over the main road, is today used as a registry office, so that one can say in Clermont "we marry in the street"• Stop on the pilgrim route to St James of Compostella, on the Via Mosana• Crawhez Castel• Clermont Castle• Ste-Anne chapel• Remember Museum 39-45

This fascinating museum is among the most interesting of its type. The Remember Museum opened its doors on 12th June 1994 and was inaugurated by Bennie Zuskin, veteran of the 1st Infantry Division of the United States Army. This fact might be mundane and anecdotical if it did not symbolise the extraordinary human value of this trip, not like any other, cradled by Mathilde and Marcel Schmetz, creators of the project. In fact, each visit is accompanied by one of them and each reconstituted piece (more than 70 mannequins !) , each flag, article of clothing and object is related to real events and real people whose names, faces and stories can be discovered. There are more than 500 « before and after » photographs where young men in military uniform can be compared with the grandfathers they have become today. The Schmetz are also in contact with hundreds of American families who regularly grace the museum with new pieces always full of history …Go to the Youtube channel of the Pays de Herve Tourist Information to watch more videos of the Remember Museum !