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.
8 km · about 15 min drive
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Rixensart
Wallonia, Belgium · Europe
About Rixensart
Rixensart works well as a base: 10 minutes from Limal, 18km from Hallerbos.
Rixensart is in Wallonia, Belgium, with about 22,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Limal, about 4 km away.
Rixensart (French pronunciation: [ʁiksɑ̃saʁ] ; Walloon: Ricsinsåt) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant. On January 1, 2018, Rixensart had a total population of 22,401. The total area is 17.54 km2 which gives a population density of 1,277 inhabitants per km2.
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municipality consists of the following former municipalities, now districts: Rixensart, Rosières and Genval. Genval-les-Bains is a local beauty spot, a 100-year-old lake with a fountain, and framed by trees, houses and restaurants. Rixensart is home to the beautiful private-owned Château de Rixensart.
Rixensart is served by two railway stations (at Rixensart and at Genval), connecting it with Brussels to the north and Louvain-la-Neuve to the south. The new arrival of the Brussels RER, will improve both train stations and upgrade the number of trains going from Brussels to Namur to 4 per hour. This will also bring more people to the municipality to live. The municipality is now classified as a commuter town due to its proximity to Brussels, the RER and the E411 Motorway.
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What is there to see near Rixensart?
Within an hour or so of Rixensart: Musée Hergé (8 km), Lion's Mound Waterloo (9 km), Villers Abbey (14 km), Villa Empain (15 km).
Are there any good drives near Rixensart?
The nearest famous roads are Chimay Street Circuit, Baraque de Fraiture and Koninklijke Baan Coast Road.
Where is Rixensart?
Rixensart is in Wallonia, Belgium, about 4 km from Limal.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 21,616
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Belgium
- Region
- Wallonia
- Timezone
- Europe/Brussels
- Coordinates
- 50.7123, 4.5253
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Worth the detour from Rixensart
8 notable places within an hour's 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.
9 km · about 15 min drive
ancient ruins
Villers Abbey
The vast romantic ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey, roofless Gothic arches lost in woodland near Brussels.
14 km · about 25 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.
15 km · about 25 min drive
museum
Autoworld Brussels
300 vehicles spanning a century of motoring displayed in the grand Cinquantenaire Palace arcade.
17 km · about 20 min 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.
17 km · about 20 min drive
natural wonder
Hallerbos
The 'Blue Forest' near Halle carpets itself with millions of wild bluebells under beech trees each spring.
18 km · about 20 min drive
landmark
Grand-Place
Opulent central square in Brussels surrounded by ornate guildhalls and the Gothic town hall, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
19 km · about 20 min drive
Driving roads near Rixensart
4 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
- 74 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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