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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
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Grez-Doiceau
Wallonia, Belgium · Europe
About Grez-Doiceau
Grez-Doiceau works well as a base: 10 minutes from Bonlez, 20km from Villers Abbey.
Grez-Doiceau is in Wallonia, Belgium, with about 12,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Bonlez, about 4 km away.
Grez-Doiceau (French: [ɡʁe dwaso]; Walloon: Gré; Dutch: Graven [ˈɣraːvə(n)]) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant. On January 1, 2006, Grez-Doiceau had a total population of 12,403. The total area is 55.44 square kilometres (21.41 sq mi) which gives a population density ofRead more
224 inhabitants per km2. Grez-Doiceau is watered by the Train, a tributary of the Dyle.
The municipality consists of the following districts: Archennes, Biez, Bossut-Gottechain, Grez-Doiceau, and Nethen.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is there to see near Grez-Doiceau?
Within an hour or so of Grez-Doiceau: Musée Hergé (10 km), Leuven Town Hall (16 km), Villers Abbey (20 km), Lion's Mound Waterloo (22 km).
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The nearest famous roads are Chimay Street Circuit, Baraque de Fraiture and Brouwersdam.
Where is Grez-Doiceau?
Grez-Doiceau is in Wallonia, Belgium, about 4 km from Bonlez.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 12,367
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Belgium
- Region
- Wallonia
- Timezone
- Europe/Brussels
- Coordinates
- 50.7390, 4.6983
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Worth the detour from Grez-Doiceau
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
landmark
Leuven Town Hall
A lacework masterpiece of late-Gothic stone, crusted with statues and pinnacles in Belgium's great university city.
16 km · about 30 min drive
ancient ruins
Villers Abbey
The vast romantic ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey, roofless Gothic arches lost in woodland near Brussels.
20 km · about 25 min drive
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Lion's Mound Waterloo
A grass pyramid topped by a cast-iron lion marks the 1815 battlefield where Napoleon met his final defeat.
22 km · about 25 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.
23 km · about 25 min drive
museum
Autoworld Brussels
300 vehicles spanning a century of motoring displayed in the grand Cinquantenaire Palace arcade.
24 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
Grand-Place
Opulent central square in Brussels surrounded by ornate guildhalls and the Gothic town hall, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
27 km · about 30 min drive
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Manneken Pis
Small bronze fountain sculpture of a urinating boy that has become a beloved symbol of Brussels since 1619.
27 km · about 30 min drive
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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