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Assent

Flanders, Belgium · Europe

About Assent

Assent is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Waanrode, 45km from Hoge Kempen National Park.

Assent is in Flanders, Belgium, with about 1,500 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Waanrode, about 4 km away.

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What is there to see near Assent?

Within an hour or so of Assent: Circuit Zolder (18 km), Leuven Town Hall (23 km), St. Rumbold's Tower (38 km), Musée Hergé (42 km).

Are there any good drives near Assent?

The nearest famous roads are Baraque de Fraiture, Chimay Street Circuit and Brouwersdam.

Where is Assent?

Assent is in Flanders, Belgium, about 4 km from Waanrode.

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Quick Information

Population
1,504
Continent
Europe
Country
Belgium
Region
Flanders
Timezone
Europe/Brussels
Coordinates
50.9519, 5.0147

Emergency & Services

Essential numbers in Belgium

Police
101
Ambulance
112
Fire
112
All emergencies
112
Driving side
right
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Tags

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Worth the detour from Assent

8 notable places within an hour's drive.

racetrack

Circuit Zolder

A Belgian circuit tragically linked to Gilles Villeneuve's death in 1982, with a rich history in Formula 1 and touring car racing.

18 km · about 20 min drive

landmark

Leuven Town Hall

A lacework masterpiece of late-Gothic stone, crusted with statues and pinnacles in Belgium's great university city.

23 km · about 25 min drive

cathedral

St. Rumbold's Tower

Climb 538 steps up Mechelen's unfinished Gothic tower for a sky-walk panorama reaching as far as Antwerp and Brussels.

38 km · about 45 min drive

museum

Musée Hergé

Christian de Portzamparc's angular white museum in Louvain-la-Neuve devoted to Tintin's creator, holding original plates, sketches and the world's largest Hergé collection across eight themed galleries.

42 km · about 50 min drive

museum

Autoworld Brussels

300 vehicles spanning a century of motoring displayed in the grand Cinquantenaire Palace arcade.

45 km · about 50 min drive

national park

Hoge Kempen National Park

Belgium's first national park, a heath and pine landscape in Limburg with six gateway entrances and visitor car parks.

45 km · about 50 min drive

museum

Villa Empain

Baron Empain's 1934 marble-and-gilt Art Deco mansion on Avenue Franklin Roosevelt, restored by the Boghossian Foundation as an East-West art centre: Brussels' most sumptuous interior after the Horta houses.

47 km · about 55 min drive

landmark

Grand-Place

Opulent central square in Brussels surrounded by ornate guildhalls and the Gothic town hall, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

48 km · about 55 min drive

Driving roads near Assent

4 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.

  • 74 kmVaalserberg DrielandenpuntThe Netherlands' highest mainland point at 322.4 metres, where the Dutch, Belgian and German borders meet near Vaals.
  • 78 kmGileppe DamA 19th-century dam near Spa crowned by a 13-ton stone lion, with a 78 m panorama tower and forested Ardennes reservoir views a short detour off the Verviers road.

Driving in Belgium

Drives on
the right
Petrol
~€1.74/litre
Motorway tolls
None

When to drive here

April to October

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