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Sint-Pietersbergは、開けた石灰岩の草原と明るい森のユニークなモザイクを提供しており、自然愛好家なら誰でも訪れる価値があります。「Sint-Pietersberg」では、まるで外国にいるかのような気分を味わえます。他にどこで、これほど美しい丘やこのような特別な泥灰岩の風景に出会えるでしょうか？カエステル高原は、価値のある斜面の森と石灰岩の草原で構成されており、フランダース地方では珍しい生息地です。森や草原の下にはユニークな泥灰岩の採石場があり、十数種類のコウモリの真の楽園となっています。

ネールカンネ城は、ローマ時代の防御施設の元の場所に建てられており、その洞窟は現在も存在し、ワインセラーとして使用されています。ホールには、幅広の柱に手すりが付いた元の階段があります。天井には戦いのトロフィーがレリーフで描かれています。現在、城はホテルおよびレストランとして利用されています。レストランはミシュランガイドで一つ星を獲得しています。

The Moulin du Broukay is a former flint mill on the Geer River near Eben-Emael, built in the 1950s as an industrial flint-grinding mill. It primarily served the Meuse Valley foundations but later fell into disrepair. Today, it is a renovated cultural and recreational center with a café-restaurant, meeting and function rooms, and a starting point for hiking trails in the Montagne Saint-Pierre. The area is part of the "Archéo et Géo Espaces - Moulin du Broukay," which showcases the geology, archaeology, and industrial history of the Jeker/Geer Valley.

Great city center and at Christmas and all the lights it's really worth it :)

Very challenging and very steep. Be careful here. There is a rope, best to use it.

Deep in the marl hills of Valkenburg lie the famous Neolithic flint mines, one of the oldest industrial sites in the Netherlands. People dug marl here as early as 2800 BC to extract flint, a hard rock used for tools such as arrowheads, knives, and axes. The tunnels extend dozens of meters beneath the hill and offer an impressive glimpse into how our distant ancestors shaped their habitat. The mines are unique and offer insights into the daily life and technological knowledge of the first farmers and hunters in South Limburg. Over the centuries, the tunnels have sometimes been flooded, subsided, or partially collapsed, but the traces of mining are still clearly visible. Today, parts of the flint mines can be visited via guided tours or special routes where you can literally follow in the footsteps of people from 5,000 years ago.

There are old flint quarries in this area: the “Carrières de silex du Thier des Vignes”.

It's a small but valuable reserve consisting of calcareous grasslands, scrub, and former quarry and slope areas. Thanks to the calcareous soil, rare plants such as orchids and thyme thrive here, and butterflies and insects abound. It's a quiet, sunny spot where nature has slowly reclaimed the old quarry slopes.