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Flobecq is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Ellezelles, 37km from Hallerbos.
Flobecq is in Wallonia, Belgium, with about 3,100 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Ellezelles, about 4 km away.
Flobecq (French: [flɔbɛk] ; Dutch: Vloesberg [ˈvluzbɛr(ə)x]; Picard: Flôbek) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. It borders to the municipalities of Ellezelles (to the west) and Lessines (to the east) in the same province and to Brakel in the province of East Flanders, on theRead more
other side of the language border.
On 1 January 2025, Flobecq had a total population of 3,441 inhabitants. The total area is 23 km2 (8.9 sq mi) which gives a population density of 150 inhabitants per square kilometre (390/sq mi).
Flobecq is a tourist village. Each year, on the nearest Friday to 17 January, there is a marvelous local feast based on the adoration of Saint Antony.
Flobecq offers language facilities for Dutch speakers.
The mayor is Dominique Marcil (Reformist Movement).
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Within an hour or so of Flobecq: Pairi Daiza (20 km), Ghent (35 km), Saint Bavo's Cathedral Ghent (35 km), Gravensteen (36 km).
The nearest famous roads are Koninklijke Baan Coast Road, Chimay Street Circuit and Brouwersdam.
Flobecq is in Wallonia, Belgium, about 4 km from Ellezelles.
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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.
20 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Vibrant medieval Flemish city with stunning canal-side architecture, the Gravensteen castle, and the famous Ghent Altarpiece.
35 km · about 40 min drive
cathedral
This Gothic cathedral guards the Van Eyck brothers' luminous Ghent Altarpiece, a landmark of European painting.
35 km · about 40 min drive
castle
A grim moated stone castle of the Counts of Flanders rising straight from the canals in the centre of Ghent.
36 km · about 40 min drive
natural wonder
The 'Blue Forest' near Halle carpets itself with millions of wild bluebells under beech trees each spring.
37 km · about 45 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.
39 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
Four UNESCO-listed 19th-century hydraulic boat lifts near La Louvière, still standing on the old Canal du Centre.
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
April to October
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