15 Best Things to Do in Beringen (Belgium)
On the Kempen Basin, the city of Beringen went through a mining boom that burned bright for a time after the Second World War before quickly fading. In Koersel, Beringen …
15 Best Things to Do in Dinant (Belgium)
This city on the Meuse River is in an incredibly picturesque spot, squeezed between the water and the high valley walls. To the east is an insurmountable wall of limestone …
15 Best Things to Do in Dendermonde (Belgium)
Set where the River Dender flows into the Scheldt, Dendermonde is a Medieval city loaded with important heritage. Making the headlines are two UNESCO World Heritage Sites, one a Gothic …
15 Best Things to Do in Bastogne (Belgium)
This Walloon municipality in Belgian Luxembourg is on a ridge in the Ardennes at 500 metres above sea level. Bastogne is at a strategic putting it in the path of …
15 Best Things to Do in Sint-Truiden (Belgium)
This city in Belgian Limburg grew up around a Benedictine abbey founded by the devout 7th-century Frankish nobleman Saint Trudo. That abbey was a major pilgrimage site in Medieval times, …
15 Best Things to Do in Geel (Belgium)
In the south of the Kempen region, Geel is a city that was much venerated by Medieval pilgrims. This was all for Dymphna, a 7th-century Irish princess supposedly martyred here. …
15 Best Things to Do in Lokeren (Belgium)
On the banks of the languid Durme River, Lokeren is a small city in the East Flanders. Lokeren’s greatest asset is the nature found effortlessly close city centre. From the …
15 Best Things to Do in Vilvoorde (Belgium)
Named for a ford on the River Zenne, the city of Vilvoorde is about 10 kilometres north-east of Brussels and linked to the capital by the Brussels-Scheldt Canal. Vilvoorde gained …
15 Best Things to Do in Turnhout (Belgium)
Home of the international playing card manufacturer Cartamundi, Turnhout is also unofficial capital of the Kempen region, a landscape of heathland, dunes and fens in the north-east of Belgium Turnhout …
15 Best Things to Do in Ostend (Belgium)
The largest city on Belgium’s coast is imbued with a royal flair that goes back to the middle of the 19th century when it became Leopold I’s resort of choice. …