Basècles is a village and district of the municipality of
Beloeil, located in the
Hainaut Province
Hainaut (, also , , ; nl, Henegouwen ; wa, Hinnot; pcd, Hénau), historically also known as Heynowes in English, is a province of Wallonia and Belgium.
To its south lies the French department of Nord, while within Belgium it borders (clock ...
in
Wallonia, Belgium.
The village history goes back at least to 1040, when Emperor
Henry III donated the village to the . The village has been a centre of black marble extraction. The village church dates from 1779. There is also a small 19th-century
château, built by Jean-Baptiste Daudergnies, who participated in the construction of the
Panama Canal.
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Populated places in Hainaut (province)