Wallonia, Belgium · Europe
Lessines is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Bois-de-Lessines, 31km from Hallerbos.
Lessines is in Wallonia, Belgium, with about 18,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Bois-de-Lessines, about 5 km away.
Lessines (French: [lɛsin] ; Picard: Lissene; Walloon: Lissene; Dutch: Lessen [ˈlɛsə(n)] ) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. As of the 2014 census, The municipality's total population was 18,637. The total area is 72.29 km2 (27.91 sq mi) which gives a population densityRead more
of 247 inhabitants per km2.
The municipality consists of the following districts: Bois-de-Lessines, Deux-Acren, Ghoy, Lessines, Ogy, Ollignies, Papignies, and Wannebecq.
Lessines is a municipality of Picardy Wallonia. It is primarily known as the birthplace of the surrealist painter René Magritte.
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Within an hour or so of Lessines: Pairi Daiza (15 km), Hallerbos (31 km), Strépy-Thieu Boat Lift (32 km), Canal du Centre Hydraulic Boat Lifts (34 km).
The nearest famous roads are Chimay Street Circuit, Koninklijke Baan Coast Road and Brouwersdam.
Lessines is in Wallonia, Belgium, about 5 km from Bois-de-Lessines.
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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.
15 km · about 25 min drive
natural wonder
The 'Blue Forest' near Halle carpets itself with millions of wild bluebells under beech trees each spring.
31 km · about 35 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.
32 km · about 35 min drive
landmark
Four UNESCO-listed 19th-century hydraulic boat lifts near La Louvière, still standing on the old Canal du Centre.
34 km · about 40 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.
36 km · about 40 min drive
landmark
Opulent central square in Brussels surrounded by ornate guildhalls and the Gothic town hall, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
39 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
Small bronze fountain sculpture of a urinating boy that has become a beloved symbol of Brussels since 1619.
39 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
Vibrant medieval Flemish city with stunning canal-side architecture, the Gravensteen castle, and the famous Ghent Altarpiece.
39 km · about 45 min drive
4 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
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