Presles, Belgium

Presles (wa: Prèle) is an old small village of Wallonia (in Belgium) attached to the municipality of Aiseau-Presles.

Postal area: 6250 (old zone 6072)
District: Charleroi

Church of Presles

The village has a Walloon language theatre company, Les Nerviens (meaning Nervian in English).

History

The assumption a long time was put forth that the battle of Julius Caesar against the Nervians would have occurred in Presles, which was cancelled in around 1940.

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