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Vieux Lille
Lively old quarter of Flemish brick gables and grand squares, the cultural capital of the French north.
34 km · about 40 min drive
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Saint-Amand-les-Eaux
Hauts-de-France, France · Europe
About Saint-Amand-les-Eaux
Saint-Amand-les-Eaux sits on the route: 10 minutes from Hasnon, 34km from Vieux Lille.
Saint-Amand-les-Eaux is in Hauts-de-France, France, with about 18,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Hasnon, about 4 km away.
Saint-Amand-les-Eaux (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t‿amɑ̃ lez‿o]; former Dutch: Sint-Amands-aan-de-Skarpe, before 1962: Saint-Amand) is a commune in the Nord department, northern France. It lies on the river Scarpe, 12 km northwest of Valenciennes. In French, the town people are named Amandinois (m), AmandinoiseRead more
(f).
Saint-Amand Abbey, formerly Elnon Abbey, was located here from its foundation in the 630s by Saint Amand until its dissolution in 1789.
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What is there to see near Saint-Amand-les-Eaux?
Within an hour or so of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux: Vieux Lille (34 km), Pairi Daiza (36 km), Louvre-Lens (44 km), Canadian National Vimy Memorial (47 km).
Are there any good drives near Saint-Amand-les-Eaux?
The nearest famous roads are Chimay Street Circuit, Koninklijke Baan Coast Road and Brouwersdam.
Where is Saint-Amand-les-Eaux?
Saint-Amand-les-Eaux is in Hauts-de-France, France, about 4 km from Hasnon.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 17,808
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- France
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Timezone
- Europe/Paris
- Coordinates
- 50.4472, 3.4308
Emergency & Services
Essential numbers in France
Carrying a warning triangle and hi-vis vest in your vehicle is mandatory. Motorway emergency phones connect to official breakdown services only.
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Worth the detour from Saint-Amand-les-Eaux
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
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Pairi Daiza
Belgium's most-visited attraction: a 75-hectare animal park built around a former Cistercian abbey in Hainaut, with full-scale Chinese, Indonesian and Middle Kingdom gardens housing giant pandas, gorillas and elephants.
36 km · about 40 min drive
museum
Louvre-Lens
A luminous glass-and-steel satellite of the Louvre rising from a former coal-mining town.
44 km · about 50 min drive
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Canadian National Vimy Memorial
Twin soaring pylons crown a WWI battlefield of preserved trenches and craters above the Douai plain.
47 km · about 55 min drive
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Strépy-Thieu Boat Lift
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.
48 km · about 55 min drive
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Canal du Centre Hydraulic Boat Lifts
Four UNESCO-listed 19th-century hydraulic boat lifts near La Louvière, still standing on the old Canal du Centre.
51 km · about 60 min drive
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In Flanders Fields Museum
Set in Ypres' rebuilt Cloth Hall, this museum tells the harrowing story of the WWI Western Front trenches.
59 km · about 70 min drive
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Menin Gate
A vast memorial arch bearing 54,000 names of the missing, where the Last Post sounds every evening at eight.
59 km · about 70 min drive
Driving roads near Saint-Amand-les-Eaux
3 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 France
- Drives on
- the right
- Petrol
- ~€1.85/litre
- Motorway tolls
- ~€10.00/100km
When to drive here
April to October
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