Villers-Sainte-Gertrude
Viyé-Sinte-Djetrou (Walloon) | |
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village | |
 The church and surrounding areas during an American military parade | |
  Villers-Sainte-Gertrude Location in Belgium | |
| Coordinates: 50°21′40″N 5°34′45″E / 50.36111°N 5.57917°E | |
| Country |  Belgium |
| Region |  Wallonia |
| Province |  Luxembourg |
| Municipality |  Durbuy |
Villers-Sainte-Gertrude (Walloon: Viyé-Sinte-Djetrou) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Durbuy, located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium.[1] Villers-Sainte-Gertrude has been part of the province of Luxembourg only since 1839. Before that, it was part of the department of the Ourthe. The communities of Deux Rys and Roche à Frêne (detached from Harre) were attached to it in 1826. It was a fully-fledged municipality before the fusion of municipalities in 1977, and is now part of the Belgian town of Durbuy. The district consists of Grand-Bru and Villers-Sainte-Gertrude and of the localities Moulin des Roches, Hiva and Champs des Cognées.
The village, located on a ridge at the foot of which flows the Aisne, a small tributary of the Ourthe and the stream of Vieux-Fourneau is a pleasant resort highly frequented by tourists during the summer period.
- ^ A Gazetteer of the World, volume 2 (Edinburgh, London and Dublin, 1856), p. 387.