Villers-la-Ville (; wa, L' Abeye) is a

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located in the

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province of

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. On January 1, 2006, Villers-la-Ville had a total population of 9,572. The total area is 47.45 km² which gives a

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of 202 inhabitants per km². The municipality includes also the villages of

Marbais Marbais ( wa, Marbé) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the Belgian municipality of Villers-la-Ville, located in the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium. Geography The land registry divides Marbais into nine sections: Rigenée, Pries ...

Mellery Mellery ( wa, Mélénri) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Villers-la-Ville, located in the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium ...

, Sart-Dames-Avelines and

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History

''To be expanded''

Sites

To the north of the village lie the ruins of the

Villers Abbey Villers Abbey (''abbaye de Villers'') is an ancient Cistercian abbey located in the town of Villers-la-Ville, in the Walloon Brabant province of Wallonia (Belgium), one piece of the ''Wallonia's Major Heritage''. Founded in 1146, the abbey was aba ...

, which was one of the most important

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abbeys of Europe. It was founded in 1147 and destroyed by the French republicans in 1795. In the ruined church attached to the abbey the tombstones of several

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of the 13th and 14th centuries are still to be found. The ruins also appear in the final episode of season 2 of

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Postal history

The MARBAIS post office opened on 1 June 1838. It used postal distribution code 33 with bars (before 1864), and code 235 with points before 1874. The VILLERS-LA-VILLE post-office opened on 10 February 1865. SART-DAMES-AVELINES on 15 October 1877, TILLY on 8 November 1906. Postal codes in 1969:Liste des Numéros Postaux, Administration des Postes, Bruxelles 1969. *6318 Marbais *6320 Villers-la-Ville *6321 Tilly *6322 Mellery *6328 Sart-Dames-Avelines Code 1495 since at least October 1990.

Transport

* Villers-la-Ville railway station * Tilly railway station, in the sub-municipality of Tilly

References

External links

*
Official website
{{Authority control Sub-municipalities of Villers-la-Ville Municipalities of Walloon Brabant