Chastre (French pronunciation:[ʃastʁ]; Walloon: Tchåsse, Walloon pronunciation:[t͡ʃɔːs]) is a French-speaking municipality in Belgium that is located in Wallonia, in the province of Walloon Brabant.
Its name comes from the Gallo-Roman word castra "fortress, fortified camp",[2] from the Latin castra which is the plural form of castrum meaning "entrenchment, fortified place".[3]
Chastre is a rural and at the same time residential municipality, with 7,684 inhabitants. Chastre comprises seven former villages: Chastre, Villeroux, Blanmont, Cortil-Noirmont, Gentinnes and Saint-Géry. It is crossed by the old Chaussée Brunehaut, a Roman way that connected Bavay to Cologne.
Located between Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve and Gembloux, 40 km from Brussels, Chastre is well served by road and railway networks. A small river called the Orne passes right through Chastre. With its tributaries, the Orne creates enchanting landscapes, surrounding magnificent farmhouses, often still fully in use. Chastre's highest point has an elevation of 165 metres. The municipality is twinned with Lespignan, Hérault department, France (since 1998) and Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Canada.
^"Wettelijke Bevolking per gemeente op 1 januari 2018". Statbel. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
^Jean-Jacques Jespers, Dictionnaire des noms de lieux en Wallonie et à Bruxelles, Éditions Racine, 2005, p. 190
^H. Bornecque et F. Cauët, Dictionnaire latin-français, Librairie classique Eugène Belin, Paris, 1967, p. 65.
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