This is the western version of the Tobacco Route.

The Tobacco Route takes you through a piece of 19th and 20th century history in the Semois region. But above all, the route shows you the beauty of the Semois valley.

Along this tourist route, you will discover the agricultural, socio-economic, and heritage past of the region. Around 1850, Joseph Pierret introduced tobacco cultivation in the Semois valley, in Alle. Year by year, the market expanded, and hundreds of people lived from it. The entire region experienced a new economic boom. Numerous tobacco drying houses were built. Growers and manufacturers expanded tobacco activity in almost all villages. But around 1950, production gradually declined. Today, only a few growers and manufacturers remain in the entire valley.

The Tobacco Route includes two signposted driving routes through the municipalities of Vresse-sur-Semois and Bouillon, starting from Alle-sur-Semois.

You will drive through villages where traces of this past are still visible. The explanatory panels along the two routes show how the tobacco plant grows and is processed, the history of Semois tobacco, the smuggling between Belgium and France, and the lives of the local inhabitants. You will also discover beautiful landscapes, panoramas, historical and cultural sights that form the wealth of this Ardennes valley.