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Canal du Centre Hydraulic Boat Lifts
Four UNESCO-listed 19th-century hydraulic boat lifts near La Louvière, still standing on the old Canal du Centre.
6 km · about 10 min drive
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Fayt-lez-Manage
Wallonia, Belgium · Europe
About Fayt-lez-Manage
Fayt-lez-Manage works well as a base: 5 minutes from Haine-Saint-Pierre, 25km from Hallerbos.
Fayt-lez-Manage is in Wallonia, Belgium, with about 6,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Haine-Saint-Pierre, about 4 km away.
Fayt-lez-Manage (French: [fa(j)ilemanaʒ], literally Fayt near Manage; Walloon: El Fayi-dlé-Manadje) is a town of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Manage, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
The name dates to 1920, previously it was called Fayt-lez-Seneffe. It was a municipality in its own rightRead more
before the merger of the municipalities in 1977.
The locality is served by bus 30 Anderlues - Morlanwelz - La Louvière - Strépy-Bracquenies - Thieu.
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What is there to see near Fayt-lez-Manage?
Within an hour or so of Fayt-lez-Manage: Canal du Centre Hydraulic Boat Lifts (6 km), Strépy-Thieu Boat Lift (9 km), Nivelles-Baulers (16 km), Villers Abbey (24 km).
Are there any good drives near Fayt-lez-Manage?
The nearest famous roads are Chimay Street Circuit, Baraque de Fraiture and Koninklijke Baan Coast Road.
Where is Fayt-lez-Manage?
Fayt-lez-Manage is in Wallonia, Belgium, about 4 km from Haine-Saint-Pierre.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 6,040
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Belgium
- Region
- Wallonia
- Timezone
- Europe/Brussels
- Coordinates
- 50.4870, 4.2296
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Worth the detour from Fayt-lez-Manage
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
landmark
Strépy-Thieu Boat Lift
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.
9 km · about 15 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.
16 km · about 20 min drive
ancient ruins
Villers Abbey
The vast romantic ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey, roofless Gothic arches lost in woodland near Brussels.
24 km · about 30 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.
25 km · about 30 min drive
natural wonder
Hallerbos
The 'Blue Forest' near Halle carpets itself with millions of wild bluebells under beech trees each spring.
25 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
Pairi Daiza
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.
27 km · about 30 min 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.
34 km · about 40 min drive
Driving roads near Fayt-lez-Manage
4 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
- 48 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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