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Nivelles works well as a base: 10 minutes from Arquennes, 13km from Hallerbos.
Nivelles is in Wallonia, Belgium, with about 24,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Arquennes, about 5 km away.
Nivelles (French: [nivɛl] ; Dutch: Nijvel [ˈnɛivəl] ; Walloon: Nivele) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant. The Nivelles municipality includes the former municipalities of Baulers, Bornival, Thines, and Monstreux.
The Nivelles arrondissement includes all theRead more
municipalities in Walloon Brabant.
The Collegiate Church of St. Gertrude has been classified as a heritage site of Wallonia.
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Within an hour or so of Nivelles: Nivelles-Baulers (3 km), Lion's Mound Waterloo (11 km), Hallerbos (13 km), Villers Abbey (14 km).
The nearest famous roads are Chimay Street Circuit, Baraque de Fraiture and Koninklijke Baan Coast Road.
Nivelles is in Wallonia, Belgium, about 5 km from Arquennes.
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8 notable places within an hour's 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.
3 km · about 5 min drive
landmark
A grass pyramid topped by a cast-iron lion marks the 1815 battlefield where Napoleon met his final defeat.
11 km · about 20 min drive
natural wonder
The 'Blue Forest' near Halle carpets itself with millions of wild bluebells under beech trees each spring.
13 km · about 25 min drive
ancient ruins
The vast romantic ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey, roofless Gothic arches lost in woodland near Brussels.
14 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Four UNESCO-listed 19th-century hydraulic boat lifts near La Louvière, still standing on the old Canal du Centre.
18 km · about 20 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.
20 km · about 25 min drive
museum
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
museum
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.
24 km · about 25 min drive
4 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
April to October
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