D3 - L'Almache - 7km

Parking and departure at the Daverdisse Tourist Center.

The row of trees in the central part of Allée des Marronniers and Rue Paul Dubois is a listed site. The cut-stone watering trough recalls that in the past an open-air diversion came from the Franc Ri, went down the street, and supplied this trough. At the back, the space is closed off by the Maison Blanche, the former communal house of the villagers, whose central part dates from the 18th century. Farther on, the Fontaine Bert, set back on the right from an old road, flows at the foot of the embankment.

The wash trough on Rue du Château is made from a single limestone block and has a sloping edge carved as a beater. It has now been converted into a fountain. Place du Château is another harmonious ensemble in the village, bordered by former 19th-century farms that replaced the outbuildings of the castle. At the back, the castle overlooks a steep slope of the land. This castle was largely destroyed by a fire in 1829 and, shortly afterward, the property was sold off in several lots. The right wing, lower than the 18th-century one, was built after the fire.

A magnificent listed old linden tree marks the beginning of Rue de l'Almache.

The furnace faces the Pont de Fays. There is speculation about the existence at this spot of rudimentary furnaces used to smelt iron ore. It is known that Daverdisse supplied pig iron ingots to the Saint-Hubert forges until 1863. The fuel used in the furnaces was charcoal, which was produced in large quantities upstream along the Almache.

The Gibet recalls that at this place stood the “patibular sign,” which only a lord with high justice had the right to display.

Return to Daverdisse via Rue des Routis. The routi was a wide path on which herds had the right of way to reach their grazing grounds.

To finish, note two old farms (19th century