Introduction

Pottes is a small belgian village which forms a part of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celles,_Hainaut Celles]' entity. It is situated at the North of the Province of Hainaut, not so far from Flanders; Pottes is surrounded by flander's villages like Helchin, Espierres, Avelgem.

How to come ?

By train

There is no station at Pottes but the nearest stations are Tournai (16km from Pottes) and Avelgem (7km from Pottes)

By the bus

There are two buses that go through Pottes: one on the morning and one on the afternoon

What about traffic?

Pottes is a village so there is no difficulty to go round in it.

What's worth seeing ?

The church

The church was built in 1432 with rocks from Tournai. The tower of the ancient church is listed and this was the only part of the church wich survives after the terrible fire that damage it in 1911. After that, the building was rebuilt in neogothic sytle in 1912.

The church isn't at the geographic centre of the village because there were quarrels between two lords : Guermignies and Quesnoy and so the lord Guermignies has won and he built the church in is domain.The Lord quesnoy built a chapel in his castle.

What to do ?

There is lot of possibilities of walks in the surroundings of Pottes and you can do it by foot,by bike or by horse. Not far from Pottes you find the "Mont Saint-Aubert" and the "Mont de L'enclus"" that are touristies and offer good walks ( there is possibility to drink and eat there)

Where to eat ?

Pottes is a village so there is not a lot of restaurants but you can go and eat grillings and belgian food at the "Farm of the Ruisseau"( au petit marais 16) for not a big budget.

Where to drink ?

In the old days, there were more than 80 cafe at pottes but today there's only 4 cafe:

- The "Concorde"

- The "Maison du peuple"

- The "Pompe"

- The "Mairie"

Where to sleep ?

"Shelter of the NAVERIE"

Situated in the street of naverie at number 3, this small shelter can accept two or three people. It owns a beautiful garden and pond . It's very good if you want to pass quiet holydays.

"Farm of BLANC FRIOU"

Situated in "the street of the Patrouille", number 2,this shelter forms a part of the iding school of Pottes ( Quesnoy's riding school.

"DENAYE's farm"

Rue d_fAnseroeul,number 46

"Farm of MALBRAY"

Rue Leclercq,number 17

Where to go ?

Pottes is the centre of main towns like Bruges, Brussels,Ghent, Lille, etc, so it's interesting to sleep there if you want to visit all these towns.

Local celebrations

It exists two local celebrations called "fair"

-The first is " The small fair": it takes place on the Sunday which follows the Saint jeanin june and so it takes place at spring

-The second is " The big fair": it takes place in septembre at the same time as the fair of Tournai. It lasts 3 days.

There is also the agricultural fair which take place in the middle of septembre.

Links

[http://www.wikitravel.org/fr/pottes Pottes in french]