Grottes de Goyet, Gesves

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The Goyet Caves are a series of connected caves located in Wallonia in a limestone cliff about 15 m above the river Samson near the village of Mozet in the Gesves municipality of the Namur province, Belgium. The site is a significant locality of regional Neanderthal and European early modern human occupation, as thousands of fossils and artifacts were discovered that are all attributed to a long and contiguous stratigraphic sequence from 120,000 years ago, the Middle Palaeolithic to less than 5.000 years ago, the late Neolithic. A robust sequence of sediments was identified during extensive excavations by geologist Edouard Dupont, who undertook the first probings as early as 1867. The site was added to the Belgian National Heritage register in 1976. ()

Alternative names: Length: 820 ftCoordinates: 50°26'41"N, 5°0'46"E

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Rue de Strouvia 3Gesves 5340 Belgium

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Grottes de Goyet – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Scladina, Château du Moisnil, Fort de Maizeret, Goyet Caves.

2.8 miN
Museum, Nature, Natural attraction
Scladina
72 min walk • Scladina, or Sclayn Cave, is an archaeological site located in Wallonia in the town of Sclayn, in the Andenne hills in Belgium, where excavations since 1978 have provided the material for an exhaustive collection of over thirteen thousand Mousterian stone artifacts and the...
2.1 miNW
Forts and castles
Château du Moisnil, Marche-les-Dames
53 min walk • The Château du Moisnil is a château or manor house of Wallonia, located in the village of Maizeret, municipality of Andenne, province of Namur, Belgium.
1.7 miNW
Forts and castles
Fort de Maizeret
45 min walk • The Fort de Maizeret is one of nine forts built as part of the Fortifications of Namur in the late 19th century in Belgium. It was built between 1888 and 1892 according to the plans of General Henri Alexis Brialmont.
~1160 ftNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Goyet Caves
6 min walk • The Goyet Caves are a series of connected caves located in Wallonia in a limestone cliff about 15 m above the river Samson near the village of Mozet in the Gesves municipality of the Namur province, Belgium.
1.8 miS
Monastery
Grandpré Abbey
47 min walk • Grandpré Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey in Wallonia located at Faulx-les-Tombes, in the province of Namur, Belgium. The only remains of the abbey are the gatehouse and the attached range at the main entrance, the farm buildings and the mill, once powered by the Samson brook, which crosses the site.
3.1 miW
Forts and castles
Fort d'Andoy
80 min walk • The Fort d'Andoy is one of nine forts built as part of the Fortifications of Namur in the late 19th century in Belgium. It was built between 1888 and 1892 according to the plans of General Henri Alexis Brialmont.
4.8 miNE
Art museum, Museum
Musée de la céramique, Andenne
123 min walk • The ceramics museum, located in the Belgian town of Andenne, presents a vast collection of ceramics dating from the Gallo-Roman era to the present day, retracing nearly 2000 years of activity around derle, a high quality white clay found in the...
2 miNE
Forts and castles
Bonneville Castle
52 min walk • Bonneville Castle is a stately home in Bonneville in the municipality of Andenne, province of Namur, Wallonia, Belgium. Originally a farmhouse with a 15th-century donjon, it was acquired in 1617 by Jacques de Zualart, who began an extensive rebuilding, the continuance of which ruined his son, Tilmant de Zualart.
4.9 miNE
Specialty museum, Museum, Church
Collégiale Sainte-Begge, Namur
125 min walk • The Collegiate Church of Saint Begge is a Catholic religious building located in the heart of the city of Andenne in the province of Namur. The neoclassical church is dedicated to Saint Begge, founder of the monastery to which the seven churches...
1.4 miSE
Forts and castles
Faulx-les-Tombes Castle
37 min walk • Faulx-les-Tombes Castle is a 19th-century château in Faulx-les-Tombes in the municipality of Gesves, province of Namur, Wallonia, Belgium. The first castle on the site was built in the 13th century and was a dependency of the County of Namur. In about 1340 it passed into the ownership of the Marbaix family.
3.2 miN
Church
St. Maurice Church
82 min walk • The church of Saint-Maurice is a Romanesque church located in Sclayn, a section of the Belgian commune of Andenne, in the province of Namur.