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.
13 km · about 25 min drive
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Sauvenière
Wallonia, Belgium · Europe
About Sauvenière
Sauvenière works well as a base: 5 minutes from Grand-Leez, 35km from Hallerbos.
Sauvenière is in Wallonia, Belgium, with about 5,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Grand-Leez, about 4 km away.
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What is there to see near Sauvenière?
Within an hour or so of Sauvenière: Musée Hergé (13 km), Villers Abbey (14 km), Citadelle de Namur (17 km), Citadel of Namur (17 km).
Are there any good drives near Sauvenière?
The nearest famous roads are Chimay Street Circuit, Baraque de Fraiture and Koninklijke Baan Coast Road.
Where is Sauvenière?
Sauvenière is in Wallonia, Belgium, about 4 km from Grand-Leez.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 5,029
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Belgium
- Region
- Wallonia
- Timezone
- Europe/Brussels
- Coordinates
- 50.5816, 4.7247
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Worth the detour from Sauvenière
8 notable places within an hour's 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
castle
Citadelle de Namur
One of Europe's mightiest hilltop fortresses guards the confluence of the Sambre and Meuse rivers in Wallonia's capital.
17 km · about 20 min drive
castle
Citadel of Namur
Extensive hilltop fortress at the Sambre-Meuse confluence in Namur, with a scenic road climbing to the ramparts.
17 km · about 20 min 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.
25 km · about 30 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.
28 km · about 35 min drive
landmark
Leuven Town Hall
A lacework masterpiece of late-Gothic stone, crusted with statues and pinnacles in Belgium's great university city.
33 km · about 40 min drive
natural wonder
Hallerbos
The 'Blue Forest' near Halle carpets itself with millions of wild bluebells under beech trees each spring.
35 km · about 40 min drive
Driving roads near Sauvenière
4 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
- 66 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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