Successively a convent garden, a cemetery, and a place of remembrance, the space today

The area occupied by Houbotte Park has had many lives. Today, several episodes of

Belgian history is commemorated there. The war memorial in the center pays tribute.

to the people of Wavre who died during the Belgian Revolution and the two World Wars. The

The bell named "Donglebert" is placed next to it. Originally designed

For the carillon of the Church of Saint John the Baptist during the 17th century, it is the only bell

to have escaped German requisitions in 1943. A few years later, during

the installation of a new carillon, it is bought back and installed in this park.