ancient ruins
Villers Abbey
The vast romantic ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey, roofless Gothic arches lost in woodland near Brussels.
8 km · about 15 min drive
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Cortil-Noirmont
Wallonia, Belgium · Europe
About Cortil-Noirmont
Cortil-Noirmont works well as a base: 10 minutes from Gembloux, 30km from Hallerbos.
Cortil-Noirmont is in Wallonia, Belgium, with about 1,900 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Gembloux, about 4 km away.
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What is there to see near Cortil-Noirmont?
Within an hour or so of Cortil-Noirmont: Villers Abbey (8 km), Musée Hergé (10 km), Lion's Mound Waterloo (20 km), Citadelle de Namur (21 km).
Are there any good drives near Cortil-Noirmont?
The nearest famous roads are Chimay Street Circuit, Baraque de Fraiture and Koninklijke Baan Coast Road.
Where is Cortil-Noirmont?
Cortil-Noirmont is in Wallonia, Belgium, about 4 km from Gembloux.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 1,893
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Belgium
- Region
- Wallonia
- Timezone
- Europe/Brussels
- Coordinates
- 50.5811, 4.6434
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Worth the detour from Cortil-Noirmont
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.
10 km · about 20 min drive
landmark
Lion's Mound Waterloo
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
castle
Citadelle de Namur
One of Europe's mightiest hilltop fortresses guards the confluence of the Sambre and Meuse rivers in Wallonia's capital.
21 km · about 25 min drive
castle
Citadel of Namur
Extensive hilltop fortress at the Sambre-Meuse confluence in Namur, with a scenic road climbing to the ramparts.
21 km · about 25 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.
23 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.
30 km · about 35 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.
31 km · about 35 min drive
Driving roads near Cortil-Noirmont
4 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
- 63 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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