Les Plus Beaux Villages de Wallonie [SEP] inception
Les Plus Beaux Villages de Wallonie
Les Plus Beaux Villages de Wallonie (French; in English: "The Most Beautiful Villages of Wallonia") is a non-profit organisation formed in 1994 to promote, protect and develop a number of villages in Wallonia, Belgium.
The association is inspired by the organisation "Les plus beaux villages de France" and is established as an ASBL in Belgium.
The villages which are members of the association are:
Aubechies, Celles, Chardeneux, Clermont-sur-Berwinne
The southern departments of the Dordogne and Aveyron have the most number of member villages, with ten in each. They are followed by Vaucluse, with seven, and Lot, with six.
Following the success of the French certification, similar associations have been formed in Wallonia ("Les Plus Beaux Villages de Wallonie"), Quebec ("Les Plus Beaux Villages du Québec"), Italy ("I Borghi più belli d’Italia"), Spain ("Los pueblos más bonitos de España") and Japan (