Lessive retains all its charms of yesteryear. In the rue de l’Antenne, you can admire a rather unusual sculpture: a man, with the head of a fish, stands on stilts. This sculpture by a local artist, Vinciane Renard, reminds us of the nickname given to the inhabitants of Lessive: “les Tchabots”. This term of Walloon origin designates small fish with flat heads, black in color, which are frequently found stranded on the ground after a flood.
This sculpture also recalls the folklore of the inhabitants of Lessive. Indeed, during the floods and to graze their herds in the meadows, everyone from Laver had to be able to “go to skasses” (wallon for stilts). The stilts have disappeared to make way for rubber boots but the tradition has been perpetuated through the folk group “Les skassis de Lessive”. They go out during the village festival which is held every year in July.
Between the small hills called “les Tiennes”, you will have the opportunity to see the old antennas of the space telecommunications earth station. This once made it possible to send and receive telephone communications, images and computer data to and from all over the world.