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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.
8 km · about 15 min drive
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La Hulpe
Wallonia, Belgium · Europe
About La Hulpe
La Hulpe works well as a base: 5 minutes from Ohain, 15km from Hallerbos.
La Hulpe is in Wallonia, Belgium, with about 7,400 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Ohain, about 4 km away.
La Hulpe (French pronunciation: [la ylp] ; Dutch: Terhulpen, pronounced [tɛrˈɦʏlpə(n)] ; Walloon: L’ Elpe) is a municipality of Wallonia in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant, 20 km south-east of the centre of Brussels, but only about 3 km from the edge of the Brussels-Capital Region. On January 1, 2007, La HulpeRead more
had a total population of 7,309. The total area is 15.60 km2, including 3 km2 of the Sonian Forest; this gives a population density of 463 inhabitants per km2.
La Hulpe still keeps two hamlets, Gaillemarde in the west and Malaise-Bakenbos in the east. The limits of the latter hamlet and of other parts of La Hulpe were modified when the linguistic border (between French and Dutch) was fixed in 1963.
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication's (SWIFT) headquarters are located in La Hulpe.
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What is there to see near La Hulpe?
Within an hour or so of La Hulpe: Lion's Mound Waterloo (8 km), Musée Hergé (11 km), Villa Empain (11 km), Autoworld Brussels (14 km).
Are there any good drives near La Hulpe?
The nearest famous roads are Chimay Street Circuit, Baraque de Fraiture and Koninklijke Baan Coast Road.
Where is La Hulpe?
La Hulpe is in Wallonia, Belgium, about 4 km from Ohain.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 7,415
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Belgium
- Region
- Wallonia
- Timezone
- Europe/Brussels
- Coordinates
- 50.7309, 4.4858
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Worth the detour from La Hulpe
8 notable places within an hour's 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.
11 km · about 20 min drive
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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.
11 km · about 20 min drive
museum
Autoworld Brussels
300 vehicles spanning a century of motoring displayed in the grand Cinquantenaire Palace arcade.
14 km · about 25 min drive
natural wonder
Hallerbos
The 'Blue Forest' near Halle carpets itself with millions of wild bluebells under beech trees each spring.
15 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.
16 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
Manneken Pis
Small bronze fountain sculpture of a urinating boy that has become a beloved symbol of Brussels since 1619.
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.
16 km · about 30 min drive
Driving roads near La Hulpe
4 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
- 76 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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