Flanders, Belgium · Europe
Poperinge works well as a base: 10 minutes from Reningelst, 51km from Koninklijke Baan Coast Road.
Poperinge is in Flanders, Belgium, with about 20,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Reningelst, about 5 km away.
Poperinge (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈpoːpəˌrɪŋə] ; French: Poperinghe, Poperingue [pɔpʁɛ̃ɡ]; West Flemish: Poperienge) is a city and municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders, Flemish Region, and has a history going back to medieval times. The municipality comprises the town of Poperinge proper andRead more
surrounding villages. The area is famous for its hops and lace.
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Within an hour or so of Poperinge: In de Vrede (5 km), In Flanders Fields Museum (11 km), Menin Gate (12 km), De Panne Beach (29 km).
The nearest famous roads are Koninklijke Baan Coast Road, Brouwersdam and Chimay Street Circuit.
Poperinge is in Flanders, Belgium, about 5 km from Reningelst.
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8 notable places within an hour's drive.
cafe
The abbey café opposite Saint-Sixtus monastery in Westvleteren: effectively the only place on earth to reliably drink Westvleteren 12, long rated the world's best beer, at the source with a slab of abbey cheese.
5 km · about 10 min drive
museum
Set in Ypres' rebuilt Cloth Hall, this museum tells the harrowing story of the WWI Western Front trenches.
11 km · about 20 min drive
landmark
A vast memorial arch bearing 54,000 names of the missing, where the Last Post sounds every evening at eight.
12 km · about 20 min drive
beach
Belgium's widest sandy beach, famous for land-yachting and bordering the wild Westhoek dunes near the French border.
29 km · about 35 min drive
landmark
Lively old quarter of Flemish brick gables and grand squares, the cultural capital of the French north.
34 km · about 40 min drive
museum
A luminous glass-and-steel satellite of the Louvre rising from a former coal-mining town.
48 km · about 55 min drive
coastal drive
The N34 'Royal Road' hugs nearly the whole Belgian coast, sharing its corridor with the world's longest tram line and passing Belle Epoque De Haan, dunes and beach resorts.
51 km · about 60 min drive
landmark
Twin soaring pylons crown a WWI battlefield of preserved trenches and craters above the Douai plain.
53 km · about 60 min drive
3 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
April to October
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