ancient ruins
Villers Abbey
The vast romantic ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey, roofless Gothic arches lost in woodland near Brussels.
11 km · about 20 min drive
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Liberchies
Wallonia, Belgium · Europe
About Liberchies
Liberchies works well as a base: 5 minutes from Pont-à-Celles, 24km from Hallerbos.
Liberchies is in Wallonia, Belgium, with about 1,100 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Pont-à-Celles, about 4 km away.
Liberchies (French pronunciation: [libɛʁʃi]; Walloon: Luberciye) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Pont-à-Celles, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
It is situated along the previous Roman highway Bavay-Tongeren where a vicus was discovered. Geminiacum is the name of the vicusRead more
(Roman village) that developed along the Roman highway next to the center of today's Liberchies. This village was created in 30 BC and was occupied until the end of the 3rd century. Being created as a relay for the Roman troops, it developed as a small town with a cultural life and economic activities. In 1970, 368 golden Roman coins were discovered on the site of former Geminiacum.
Liberchies was an independent municipality until 1964 when it was united with Luttre. In 1976 Luttre was united with Pont-à-Celles, of which Liberchies forms a district.
Every year in May a Django Reinhardt Jazz Festival takes place in Liberchies, Django Reinhardt's birth village.
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What is there to see near Liberchies?
Within an hour or so of Liberchies: Villers Abbey (11 km), Nivelles-Baulers (14 km), Lion's Mound Waterloo (18 km), Canal du Centre Hydraulic Boat Lifts (19 km).
Are there any good drives near Liberchies?
The nearest famous roads are Chimay Street Circuit, Baraque de Fraiture and Koninklijke Baan Coast Road.
Where is Liberchies?
Liberchies is in Wallonia, Belgium, about 4 km from Pont-à-Celles.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 1,131
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Belgium
- Region
- Wallonia
- Timezone
- Europe/Brussels
- Coordinates
- 50.5142, 4.4212
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Worth the detour from Liberchies
8 notable places within an hour's 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.
14 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Lion's Mound Waterloo
A grass pyramid topped by a cast-iron lion marks the 1815 battlefield where Napoleon met his final defeat.
18 km · about 20 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.
19 km · about 20 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.
22 km · about 25 min 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.
22 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.
24 km · about 30 min drive
castle
Citadelle de Namur
One of Europe's mightiest hilltop fortresses guards the confluence of the Sambre and Meuse rivers in Wallonia's capital.
32 km · about 35 min drive
Driving roads near Liberchies
4 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
- 51 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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