Ti-Château is an old

Roman Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a letter ...

oppidum An ''oppidum'' (plural ''oppida'') is a large fortified Iron Age settlement or town. ''Oppida'' are primarily associated with the Celtic late La Tène culture, emerging during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, spread across Europe, stretchi ...

(currently only ruins and a rebuilt watch tower) located near the

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village of

Hotton Hotton (; wa, Houton) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium. The municipality lies 12 kilometers from Marche-en-Famenne in the Ardennes and has more than 5,400 inhabitants. The river Ourthe crosses Hotton. ...

. It defended an ancient city/village at the current location of Hotton. The old oppidum and its ruins lie at a triangular plateau called the ''Plage de Renissart'', near large rock cliffs above the river

Ourthe The Ourthe (; Walloon: ''Aiwe d' Oûte'') is a long river in the Ardennes in Wallonia (Belgium). It is a right tributary to the river Meuse. The Ourthe is formed at the confluence of the ''Ourthe Occidentale'' (Western Ourthe) and the ''Ourthe ...

. It is likely that Ti-château was already habituated during the

Neolithic The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several parts ...

, though most excavations are Roman. Ti-Château is also famous among tourists for its views over the Ourthe valley and the villages of Hotton and Hampteau. Ti-Château source from Dutch Wikipedia, consulted 7th of April 2013

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ti-Chateau Hotton Buildings and structures in Luxembourg (Belgium)