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DAF Museum
Eindhoven museum charting Dutch truck maker DAF, from quirky Variomatic-transmission city cars to giant race trucks, displayed near the original 1928 workshop.
26 km · about 30 min drive
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Lommel
Flanders, Belgium · Europe
About Lommel
Lommel is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Luyksgestel, 39km from Hoge Kempen National Park.
Lommel is in Flanders, Belgium, with about 32,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Luyksgestel, about 7 km away.
Lommel (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈlɔməl]) is a municipality and city in the Belgian province of Limburg. Lying in the Kempen, it has about 34,000 inhabitants and is part of the arrondissement of Maaseik.
Besides the residential town, Lommel also has a number of nature reserves, such as the nature reserve De Watering, theRead more
Lommel Sahara, and numerous forests and heathlands. Lommel is the third shopping city in Belgian Limburg with a commercial and shopping center De Singel. Importantly, the silver sand that is mined here for the benefit of the glass industry. Some sand mining quarries are transformed into nature reserves and recreational areas, including Lommel Sahara.
The city of Lommel is in the watershed of the basins of the Scheldt, and Meuse, and within these basins Nete Dommel respectively.
Tamar, a maternity home for pregnant girls and unmarried mothers and their children run by the Congregation of Kindsheid Jesu, is located in Lommel. Despite its religious mission to help young women, Tamar was notorious for numerous scandals, including forced adoptions, unwanted sterilizations, and abuse of the women placed in its care.
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What is there to see near Lommel?
Within an hour or so of Lommel: DAF Museum (26 km), Circuit Zolder (27 km), Thorn (38 km), Hoge Kempen National Park (39 km).
Are there any good drives near Lommel?
The nearest famous roads are Baraque de Fraiture, Brouwersdam and Chimay Street Circuit.
Where is Lommel?
Lommel is in Flanders, Belgium, about 7 km from Luyksgestel.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 31,993
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Belgium
- Region
- Flanders
- Timezone
- Europe/Brussels
- Coordinates
- 51.2307, 5.3135
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Worth the detour from Lommel
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
racetrack
Circuit Zolder
A Belgian circuit tragically linked to Gilles Villeneuve's death in 1982, with a rich history in Formula 1 and touring car racing.
27 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
Thorn
The 'white village' of Limburg: an entire former abbey-principality of whitewashed brick lanes and cobbles beside the Maas, painted white in the Napoleonic era to dodge a window tax and kept that way ever since.
38 km · about 45 min drive
national park
Hoge Kempen National Park
Belgium's first national park, a heath and pine landscape in Limburg with six gateway entrances and visitor car parks.
39 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
Toverland
Dutch indoor-outdoor theme park in Limburg offering a mix of thrill rides and family attractions in themed areas.
50 km · about 60 min drive
landmark
Efteling
Enchanting Dutch fairy-tale theme park with immersive storytelling, dark rides, and world-class roller coasters.
50 km · about 60 min drive
landmark
Vrijthof Maastricht
A grand cafe-ringed square anchored by two medieval churches in the Netherlands' oldest, most Burgundian city.
50 km · about 60 min drive
cathedral
Sint-Janskathedraal
The Netherlands' finest Gothic cathedral bristles with grotesque flying-buttress carvings in Hieronymus Bosch's home city.
51 km · about 60 min drive
Driving roads near Lommel
3 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
- 73 kmVaalserberg DrielandenpuntThe Netherlands' highest mainland point at 322.4 metres, where the Dutch, Belgian and German borders meet near Vaals.
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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