Couillet Couyet ( Walloon)
Former municipality of Belgium
Coat of arms
Location in the municipality of Charleroi
Couillet Location in Belgium
Coordinates: 50°24′N 4°26′E / 50.400°N 4.433°E / 50.400; 4.433
Country	Belgium
Region	Wallonia
Community	French Community
Province	Hainaut
Municipality	Charleroi
Area
• Total	4.81 sq mi (12.47 km2)
Population  (2001)
• Total	12,546
Time zone	UTC+1 ( CET)
• Summer ( DST)	UTC+2 ( CEST)
Postal code	6010
Area code	071

Couillet ( [kujɛ]; Walloon: Couyet) is a town of Wallonia and district of the municipality of Charleroi, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.

It was a municipality of its own before the merger of the municipalities in 1977.

The local theater company playing in Walloon language, the "Cercle (royal) wallon de Couillet", won the "Grand Prix du Roi Albert I" Walloon-speaking theater contest in 1932, 1952 and 1976.

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  Solvay fraternity (1937-1939)
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  Saint Lawrence church (16th century)
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  Former town hall (1882)
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  German Monument "Den Kameraden" from 1915, blasted in 1920.

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