Châtillon, Belgium
Châtillon (Tchekion in Gaume) is a section of the Belgian town of Saint-Léger, located in Wallonia municipality in the province of Luxembourg in Belgium. It was a separate municipality before the merger of Commons in 1977.
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| Coordinates: 49.6247991°N 5.6878152°E |
The village is crossed by the National Road 82 between Arlon and Virton.
Car cemetery
In a nearby, small forest was a well known automobile graveyard.[1] The cars, many of them American-made, were a legacy of RCAF Station Marville where Canadian and US troops were stationed on behalf of NATO. A mechanic in Châtillon did business repairing the NATO troops' cars, but after France's 1966 withdrawal from NATO he was left with hundreds of scrap cars that gradually became overgrown. The cars became a local curiosity after an unauthorized television documentary publicized them, and then a political issue when the mechanic's son, a local environmentalist, faced a lawsuit for maintaining an illegal dump. The cars were removed and crushed, although the pictures and the story continue to circulate.[2]
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