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Leuven Town Hall
A lacework masterpiece of late-Gothic stone, crusted with statues and pinnacles in Belgium's great university city.
17 km · about 20 min drive
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Rillaar
Flanders, Belgium · Europe
About Rillaar
Rillaar is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Tielt, 29km from St. Rumbold's Tower.
Rillaar is in Flanders, Belgium, with about 5,500 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Tielt, about 4 km away.
Rillaar is a village in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant and is a submunicipality of Aarschot. It was an independent municipality until the municipal reorganization of 1977. It has around 5000 inhabitants.
The water mill Leefdaele mill was built before 1378 and is a protected monument.
The village centre hasRead more
been a protected townscape since 1980 and has been an architectural heritage site since 2021. There are several 18th and 19th century buildings.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is there to see near Rillaar?
Within an hour or so of Rillaar: Leuven Town Hall (17 km), Circuit Zolder (26 km), St. Rumbold's Tower (29 km), Autoworld Brussels (38 km).
Are there any good drives near Rillaar?
The nearest famous roads are Baraque de Fraiture, Chimay Street Circuit and Brouwersdam.
Where is Rillaar?
Rillaar is in Flanders, Belgium, about 4 km from Tielt.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 5,518
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Belgium
- Region
- Flanders
- Timezone
- Europe/Brussels
- Coordinates
- 50.9738, 4.8918
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Worth the detour from Rillaar
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.
26 km · about 30 min drive
cathedral
St. Rumbold's Tower
Climb 538 steps up Mechelen's unfinished Gothic tower for a sky-walk panorama reaching as far as Antwerp and Brussels.
29 km · about 35 min drive
museum
Autoworld Brussels
300 vehicles spanning a century of motoring displayed in the grand Cinquantenaire Palace arcade.
38 km · about 45 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.
39 km · about 45 min drive
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Grand-Place
Opulent central square in Brussels surrounded by ornate guildhalls and the Gothic town hall, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
40 km · about 45 min drive
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Atomium
Futuristic building in Brussels shaped like an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times, built for the 1958 World Expo.
40 km · about 45 min drive
museum
Villa Empain
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.
40 km · about 45 min drive
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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