Sambre of yesterday and today

Whether with family, friends, couples or groups, Floreffe offers a multitude of activities, walks and events throughout the year.Thanks to their dynamism and their attraction for novelties, Visit Floreffe offers visitors a wide range of activities and possibilities for soft and itinerant tourism and geocaching.In addition to Floreffe Abbey and the caves, they have a diverse heritage that you will enjoy discovering along the Sambre.

To mark the bicentenary of the creation of the gendarmerie in 1996, a museum was established in the old Floreffe police station opposite the railway station. The building still has barracks and cells for solitary confinement of the time.

Floreffe Abbey was founded in 1121 and still boasts imposing buildings on a promontory overlooking the Sambre valley. The abbey was occupied by the Premontratensian order till the French Revolution and has been housing an important diocesan college from 1819 onwards. You'll find 9th centuries of architecture combined on these formerly fortified foothills. The one hour tour includes the neo-classical abbey church, its famous Baroque stalls, a video montage recounting the history of the abbey, which used to be one of the mightiest ones in our country, and an interesting small museum located in the converted medieval annexes of the abbey church. The former Mill Brewery provides a warm welcome for visitors wishing to taste some abbey products : beers, bread, cheeses. You can round off the tour with a visit to a shop where 12 artisans display their works. Abbey of Floreffe tours:01/04 > 30/09: 13:30 ; 14:30 ;15:30 ; 16:30 ; 17:3001/07 > 31/08: 10:30 ; 11:30 ; 13:30 ; 14:30 ;15:30 ; 16:30 ; 17:30All year round by reservation for groups of min. 12 persons. Mill-Brasserie: whole year