page_title: Tower of Alvaux
hierarchical_section_title: Tower of Alvaux
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Belgique - Brabant wallon - Walhain - Nil-Saint-Vincent-Saint-Martin - Tour d'Alvaux
context_page_description: Alvaux Tower, also known as Tour d'Alvaux or Alvau or also called Saracen tower, is a plain residential tower of the late 12th century located in Nil-Saint-Vincent-Saint-Martin, a village in the Belgian town of Walhain, the province of Walloon Brabant.
  The dungeon stands in the village of Nil-Saint-Vincent, near Mont-Saint-Guibert south of the city of Brussels in Belgium. Alvaux Tower is a tower house built between 1183 and 1217 by Arnould II de Walhain. The land was yielded to him by Berthe; the abbess of Nivelles in French) in 1199. The tower was attached to Walhain Castle and had connections with the nearby Griffon du Bois Tower.
  When it was built it was surrounded by ditches and equipped with a drawbridge. On top there would have been a pyramidal roof. With this roof the tower would have been some 20 meters high.
  Today the tower is situated on a camping ground with access to the tower prohibited and to side the site is surrounded by marshland surrounded by two small arm of the river Orneau.
context_section_description: Alvaux Tower, also known as Tour d'Alvaux or Alvau or also called Saracen tower, is a plain residential tower of the late 12th century located in Nil-Saint-Vincent-Saint-Martin, a village in the Belgian town of Walhain, the province of Walloon Brabant.
  The dungeon stands in the village of Nil-Saint-Vincent, near Mont-Saint-Guibert south of the city of Brussels in Belgium. Alvaux Tower is a tower house built between 1183 and 1217 by Arnould II de Walhain. The land was yielded to him by Berthe; the abbess of Nivelles in French) in 1199. The tower was attached to Walhain Castle and had connections with the nearby Griffon du Bois Tower.
  When it was built it was surrounded by ditches and equipped with a drawbridge. On top there would have been a pyramidal roof. With this roof the tower would have been some 20 meters high.
  Today the tower is situated on a camping ground with access to the tower prohibited and to side the site is surrounded by marshland surrounded by two small arm of the river Orneau.
caption: Tour d'Alvaux
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