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, …
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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. …
15 Best Things to Do in Genk (Belgium)
An industrial city in Belgian Limburg, Genk experienced a surge of mining activity in the middle of the 20th century as it sits right on the Kempen coal basin. Those …
15 Best Things to Do in Sint-Niklaas (Belgium)
This medium-sized city, capital of Belgium’s Waasland region, has plenty going for it. One plus point is the largest market square in the country, dating back more than 750 years …
15 Best Things to Do in Roeselare (Belgium)
This industrial city in West Flanders came through a revival in the 19th century with the completion of the Roeselare-Leie Canal. In the decades that followed, Roeselare would be described …
15 Best Things to Do in Tournai (Belgium)
One of Belgium’s oldest cities has a central square over a Gallo-Roman cemetery, and was the birthplace of Clovis I (466-511), founder of the Merovingian dynasty. Grand Place, lovingly reconstructed …