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Hornu is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Flénu, 44km from Hallerbos.
Hornu is in Wallonia, Belgium, with about 8,800 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Flénu, about 4 km away.
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Within an hour or so of Hornu: Pairi Daiza (17 km), Strépy-Thieu Boat Lift (21 km), Canal du Centre Hydraulic Boat Lifts (24 km), Nivelles-Baulers (41 km).
The nearest famous roads are Chimay Street Circuit, Koninklijke Baan Coast Road and Baraque de Fraiture.
Hornu is in Wallonia, Belgium, about 4 km from Flénu.
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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.
17 km · about 20 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.
21 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Four UNESCO-listed 19th-century hydraulic boat lifts near La Louvière, still standing on the old Canal du Centre.
24 km · about 25 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.
41 km · about 45 min drive
natural wonder
The 'Blue Forest' near Halle carpets itself with millions of wild bluebells under beech trees each spring.
44 km · about 50 min drive
landmark
A grass pyramid topped by a cast-iron lion marks the 1815 battlefield where Napoleon met his final defeat.
49 km · about 55 min drive
ancient ruins
The vast romantic ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey, roofless Gothic arches lost in woodland near Brussels.
53 km · about 60 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.
53 km · about 60 min drive
4 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
April to October
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