Leuze is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Barry, 49km from Hallerbos.
Leuze is in Wallonia, Belgium, with about 7,100 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Barry, about 4 km away.
Leuze-en-Hainaut (French pronunciation: [løz ɑ̃ ɛno] ; Picard: Leuze-in-Hénau; Walloon: Leuze-e-Hinnot) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
On 1 January 2018, it had a population of 13,886.
The municipality consists of the following districts: Blicquy, Chapelle-à-Oie,Read more Chapelle-à-Wattines, Gallaix, Grandmetz, Leuze-en-Hainaut, Pipaix, Thieulain, Tourpes, and Willaupuis.
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.
20 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Vieux Lille
Lively old quarter of Flemish brick gables and grand squares, the cultural capital of the French north.
38 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
Strépy-Thieu Boat Lift
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.
38 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
Canal du Centre Hydraulic Boat Lifts
Four UNESCO-listed 19th-century hydraulic boat lifts near La Louvière, still standing on the old Canal du Centre.
41 km · about 45 min drive
natural wonder
Hallerbos
The 'Blue Forest' near Halle carpets itself with millions of wild bluebells under beech trees each spring.
49 km · about 55 min drive
landmark
Ghent
Vibrant medieval Flemish city with stunning canal-side architecture, the Gravensteen castle, and the famous Ghent Altarpiece.
51 km · about 60 min drive
cathedral
Saint Bavo's Cathedral Ghent
This Gothic cathedral guards the Van Eyck brothers' luminous Ghent Altarpiece, a landmark of European painting.
51 km · about 60 min drive
racetrack
Nivelles-Baulers
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.
51 km · about 60 min drive
Driving roads near Leuze
3 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
77 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.