landmark
Lion's Mound Waterloo
A grass pyramid topped by a cast-iron lion marks the 1815 battlefield where Napoleon met his final defeat.
6 km · about 10 min drive
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Basse Lasne
Wallonia, Belgium · Europe
About Basse Lasne
Basse Lasne works well as a base: 10 minutes from La Hulpe, 16km from Hallerbos.
Basse Lasne is in Wallonia, Belgium, with about 14,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is La Hulpe, about 4 km away.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is there to see near Basse Lasne?
Within an hour or so of Basse Lasne: Lion's Mound Waterloo (6 km), Musée Hergé (9 km), Villers Abbey (12 km), Nivelles-Baulers (14 km).
Are there any good drives near Basse Lasne?
The nearest famous roads are Chimay Street Circuit, Baraque de Fraiture and Koninklijke Baan Coast Road.
Where is Basse Lasne?
Basse Lasne is in Wallonia, Belgium, about 4 km from La Hulpe.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 13,861
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Belgium
- Region
- Wallonia
- Timezone
- Europe/Brussels
- Coordinates
- 50.6950, 4.4922
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Worth the detour from Basse Lasne
8 notable places within an hour's 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.
9 km · about 15 min drive
ancient ruins
Villers Abbey
The vast romantic ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey, roofless Gothic arches lost in woodland near Brussels.
12 km · about 20 min drive
racetrack
Nivelles-Baulers
A flat, fast circuit that hosted two Belgian Grands Prix in the 1970s before closing in 1981. Much of the abandoned track survives among industrial development, its wide sweeping curves clearly readable from ground level.
14 km · about 25 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.
15 km · about 25 min drive
natural wonder
Hallerbos
The 'Blue Forest' near Halle carpets itself with millions of wild bluebells under beech trees each spring.
16 km · about 30 min drive
museum
Autoworld Brussels
300 vehicles spanning a century of motoring displayed in the grand Cinquantenaire Palace arcade.
18 km · about 20 min drive
landmark
Manneken Pis
Small bronze fountain sculpture of a urinating boy that has become a beloved symbol of Brussels since 1619.
19 km · about 20 min drive
Driving roads near Basse Lasne
4 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
- 72 kmChimay Street CircuitA Belgian village street circuit running since 1926, still used for historic car and motorcycle racing on closed public roads. Between meetings you can drive the whole flat-out 4km lap through farmland and the town outskirts.
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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