Rochefort

Rochefort is a Walloon municipality placed inside the Belgian province of Namur, close to the Ardennes. On January 1, 2006, Rochefort had a complete populace of 12,038. The total place is 165.27 km² which offers a populace density of seventy three inhabitants in line with km². It changed into a resort within the 19th century. The municipality includes the following sub-municipalities: Rochefort proper, Ave-et-Auffe, Buissonville, Eprave, Han-sur-Lesse, Jemelle, Lavaux-Sainte-Anne, Lessive, Mont-Gauthier, Villers-sur-Lesse, and Wavreille.

Its historic position on the crossroads in which the route to Saint-Hubert crossed that from Liege to Bouillon required fortifying: the ruins of the old citadel, which gave the place its call and a identify to an extended line of counts who had the proper of coining their personal money, nevertheless exist. This citadel underwent many sieges and suffered at the palms of Marshal de Chatillon. Near Rochefort are the purple marble quarries of St. Remy, and Rochefort Abbey, a Trappist monastery, which operates the Rochefort Brewery, acknowledged for brewing dark and sweet beers, specially the Rochefort 10, a deep darkish-brown rich and fruity beer. The town turned into the website online of the Battle of Bure at some point of the Second World War.