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Braine-le-Comte works well as a base: 5 minutes from Hennuyères, 14km from Hallerbos.
Braine-le-Comte is in Wallonia, Belgium, with about 20,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Hennuyères, about 4 km away.
Braine-le-Comte (French: [bʁɛn lə kɔ̃t] ; Walloon: Brinne-e-Hinnot; Dutch: 's-Gravenbrakel [ˈsxraːvə(m)ˌbraːkəl] ) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
On January 1, 2018, Braine-le-Comte had a total population of 21,649. The total area is 84.68 square kilometres (32.70Read more
sq mi) which gives a population density of 260 inhabitants per km2.
The municipality consists of the following districts: Braine-le-Comte, Hennuyères, Henripont, Petit-Rœulx-lez-Braine, Ronquières, and Steenkerque.
The Ronquières inclined plane at the Brussels–Charleroi Canal is in the municipality of Braine-le-Comte.
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Within an hour or so of Braine-le-Comte: Nivelles-Baulers (13 km), Hallerbos (14 km), Canal du Centre Hydraulic Boat Lifts (14 km), Strépy-Thieu Boat Lift (15 km).
The nearest famous roads are Chimay Street Circuit, Koninklijke Baan Coast Road and Baraque de Fraiture.
Braine-le-Comte is in Wallonia, Belgium, about 4 km from Hennuyères.
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8 notable places within an hour's 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.
13 km · about 25 min drive
natural wonder
The 'Blue Forest' near Halle carpets itself with millions of wild bluebells under beech trees each spring.
14 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Four UNESCO-listed 19th-century hydraulic boat lifts near La Louvière, still standing on the old Canal du Centre.
14 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.
15 km · about 30 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.
19 km · about 20 min drive
landmark
A grass pyramid topped by a cast-iron lion marks the 1815 battlefield where Napoleon met his final defeat.
20 km · about 25 min drive
ancient ruins
The vast romantic ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey, roofless Gothic arches lost in woodland near Brussels.
27 km · about 30 min drive
museum
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.
28 km · about 30 min drive
4 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
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