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Dour is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Boussu, 49km from Hallerbos.
Dour is in Wallonia, Belgium, with about 17,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Boussu, about 4 km away.
Dour (French pronunciation: [duʁ]; Picard: Doû) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 16,810 inhabitants. The total area is 33.32 km2, giving a population density of 505 inhabitants per km2.
The municipality consists of the followingRead more
districts: Blaugies, Dour, Élouges, and Wihéries.
Dour is often considered the western end of the sillon industriel, the former industrial backbone of Wallonia.
Since 1989, Dour has hosted the annual Dour Festival, a music festival covering various genres.
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Within an hour or so of Dour: Pairi Daiza (22 km), Strépy-Thieu Boat Lift (25 km), Canal du Centre Hydraulic Boat Lifts (28 km), Nivelles-Baulers (46 km).
The nearest famous roads are Chimay Street Circuit, Koninklijke Baan Coast Road and Baraque de Fraiture.
Dour is in Wallonia, Belgium, about 4 km from Boussu.
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8 notable places within an hour's 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.
22 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.
25 km · about 30 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
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.
46 km · about 55 min drive
natural wonder
The 'Blue Forest' near Halle carpets itself with millions of wild bluebells under beech trees each spring.
49 km · about 55 min 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.
52 km · about 60 min drive
landmark
A grass pyramid topped by a cast-iron lion marks the 1815 battlefield where Napoleon met his final defeat.
55 km · about 65 min drive
landmark
Lively old quarter of Flemish brick gables and grand squares, the cultural capital of the French north.
57 km · about 65 min drive
3 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
April to October
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