cathedral
St. Rumbold's Tower
Climb 538 steps up Mechelen's unfinished Gothic tower for a sky-walk panorama reaching as far as Antwerp and Brussels.
18 km · about 20 min drive
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Heist-op-den-Berg
Flanders, Belgium · Europe
About Heist-op-den-Berg
Heist-op-den-Berg works well as a base: 10 minutes from Booischot, 18km from St. Rumbold's Tower.
Heist-op-den-Berg is in Flanders, Belgium, with about 38,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Booischot, about 4 km away.
Heist-op-den-Berg (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌɦɛist ɔb də(m) ˈbɛr(ə)x]) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises Heist-op-den-Berg proper (including the hamlets: Heist-Goor, Heist-Station, Zonderschot, Heist-Centrum and Bruggeneinde), the villages of Booischot (including theRead more
hamlet Pijpelheide), Hallaar, Itegem, Schriek and Wiekevorst.
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What is there to see near Heist-op-den-Berg?
Within an hour or so of Heist-op-den-Berg: St. Rumbold's Tower (18 km), Leuven Town Hall (22 km), Antwerp Zoo (27 km), Antwerpen-Centraal (27 km).
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The nearest famous roads are Brouwersdam, Baraque de Fraiture and Chimay Street Circuit.
Where is Heist-op-den-Berg?
Heist-op-den-Berg is in Flanders, Belgium, about 4 km from Booischot.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 37,873
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Belgium
- Region
- Flanders
- Timezone
- Europe/Brussels
- Coordinates
- 51.0754, 4.7283
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Worth the detour from Heist-op-den-Berg
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.
22 km · about 25 min drive
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Antwerp Zoo
Historic Belgian zoo next to the central train station, one of the oldest in the world, founded in 1843.
27 km · about 30 min drive
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Antwerpen-Centraal
A cathedral-like railway station of marble, gilt and glass, repeatedly voted one of the most beautiful in the world.
27 km · about 30 min drive
cathedral
Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp
Belgium's tallest Gothic building housing masterpieces by Rubens, with a UNESCO-listed 123-metre tower visible across Flanders.
28 km · about 30 min drive
museum
Plantin-Moretus Museum
The world's oldest surviving printing house, run by the Plantin family in Antwerp from 1576 to 1867 and the only museum on the UNESCO World Heritage list: complete with the two oldest printing presses in existence and a Gutenberg Bible.
28 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
Atomium
Futuristic building in Brussels shaped like an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times, built for the 1958 World Expo.
34 km · about 40 min drive
museum
Autoworld Brussels
300 vehicles spanning a century of motoring displayed in the grand Cinquantenaire Palace arcade.
35 km · about 40 min drive
Driving roads near Heist-op-den-Berg
4 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
- 72 kmWestern Scheldt TunnelAt 6.6 km the longest road tunnel in the Netherlands, diving under the busy Western Scheldt shipping lane to link Zeeland with Zeelandic Flanders since 2003.
- 72 kmWesterscheldetunnelTolled 6.6-kilometre road tunnel under the Western Scheldt linking Zeelandic Flanders to Zuid-Beveland, replacing two ferries.
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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