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Bois de Neffe

The Bois de Neffe is a leafy stretch of woodland in the Namur province of Wallonia, sitting in the gentle Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse countryside between the villages of Bioul and Saint-Gérard. Rather than a single attraction with gates and opening hours, it is a place you come to walk: a quiet, mostly shaded network of forest paths and gravelled farm tracks, threaded with the grand tree-lined avenues that once led to its estate. Its defining feature is the Château de Neffe, a private house tucked among the trees, whose corner turrets can just be glimpsed through the foliage from the western side of the wood as you approach Bioul. The estate gives the forest a quietly aristocratic character—stately drives, open fields and managed woodland parcels in a single, easy stroll. A well-worn circular route of about 5 km starts and ends near Bioul and loops through the Bois de Neffe in roughly an hour to an hour and a half. Rated easy, with only a modest climb and a mix of firm tracks and softer forest floor, it suits families, casual walkers and trail runners alike—and in spring and early summer the woodland floor comes up in wildflowers.