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Beaumont is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Strée, 44km from Villers Abbey.
Beaumont is in Wallonia, Belgium, with about 6,600 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Strée, about 6 km away.
Beaumont (French pronunciation: [bomɔ̃] ; Walloon: Biômont) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Hainaut, on the border with France.
On 1 January 2012 Beaumont had a total population of 7,060. The total area is 92.97 km2.
The municipality consists of the following districts:Read more
Barbençon, Beaumont, Leugnies, Leval-Chaudeville, Renlies, Solre-Saint-Géry, Strée, and Thirimont.
The Tour Salamandre, an 11th-century donjon, is the only remaining part of the Château de Beaumont, seat of the Croÿ family. It can still be visited and holds expositions of the town's history.
The old castle, in which Napoleon spent a night before going to Waterloo in 1815, has been separated in two parts; one houses the town hall and the other contains a Catholic secondary school, Paridaens.
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Within an hour or so of Beaumont: Chimay Street Circuit (20 km), Strépy-Thieu Boat Lift (28 km), Canal du Centre Hydraulic Boat Lifts (28 km), Rocroi (40 km).
The nearest famous roads are Chimay Street Circuit, Baraque de Fraiture and Koninklijke Baan Coast Road.
Beaumont is in Wallonia, Belgium, about 6 km from Strée.
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8 notable places within an hour's drive.
historic highway
A 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.
20 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
A colossal 73 m boat elevator on the Canal du Centre, among the tallest in the world, hoisting entire barges in a concrete cathedral visible for miles across Hainaut.
28 km · about 35 min drive
landmark
Four UNESCO-listed 19th-century hydraulic boat lifts near La Louvière, still standing on the old Canal du Centre.
28 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
Perfect star-shaped bastioned town in the French Ardennes, laid out in 1555 and remodelled by Vauban, its five-pointed geometry of ramparts and radial streets still fully intact.
40 km · about 45 min drive
racetrack
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.
43 km · about 50 min drive
ancient ruins
The vast romantic ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey, roofless Gothic arches lost in woodland near Brussels.
44 km · about 50 min drive
landmark
Belgium's most-visited attraction: a 75-hectare animal park built around a former Cistercian abbey in Hainaut, with full-scale Chinese, Indonesian and Middle Kingdom gardens housing giant pandas, gorillas and elephants.
46 km · about 55 min drive
castle
A cliff-top fortress towering over the Meuse and a riverfront of pastel houses below the bulbous onion-domed church.
48 km · about 55 min drive
3 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
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