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Route du Lion 315
B-1410 Waterloo
Tél. : +32.2.385.19.12
www.waterloo1815.be
The Battlefield Tour allows the visitors to explore the entire Battlefields from an unusual perspective.
A specially-appointed all-terrain vehicle takes visitors round the site’s strategic points while they listen to explanations about how the military operations of the two opposing camps unfolded.
This dynamic discovery tour lasting 45 to 50 minutes is vital to the understanding of this major event in the history of Europe..
This 40-metre high tumulus was erected at the spot where it is believed the Prince of Orange (1772-1843) was wounded prior to becoming King of the Netherlands (from 1815 to 1840). It took three years, from 1823 to 1826, to erect this immense cone of earth.
The Lion perched at the summit of the mound symbolises the victory of monarchies. From the top of the mound, the visitor’s gaze takes in the whole of the Battlefield.
He is able to see at a glance where the infantry formed into their squares, how the cavalry was deployed.
UA large-scale model of 10 m2 represents the space in which the various army corps were deployed.
During the show, this model lights up and moves according to the advance of the troops, offering a dynamic impression of the progress of events.
The sound and light effects locate the forces involved in the combat, the strategic places and the main phases of the battle.
After the historical approach of the Audiovisual Presentation, the film plunge you into the battle of the 18th of June through extracts of the film Waterloo of Sergueï Bondartchouk.
Painted by Louis Dumoulin, this giant canvas was painted in 1912 in preparation for the celebration of the first centenary of the battle. The fresco is of spectacular dimensions, worthy of its eminently dramatic subject: 100 metres in circumference by 12 metres in height.
The clash of sabres, cavalry charges, cannon-fire, the sound of bugles and the cries of the infantrymen plunge visitors into the heart of the battle. Spectators are literally immersed in the action: surrounded on every side by the painting, they feel themselves drawn into the scenes of combat and have the illusion of actually being there.
In a hotel where Sergeant-Major Cotton once passed some time, the main protagonists in the battle have been immortalised in wax figures made in 1949 by artists from the Musée Grévin in Paris.
They are faithful portraits of the heroes of the battle and enable visitors to put faces to the famous names.
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