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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.
11 km · about 20 min drive
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Sint-Agatha-Rode
Flanders, Belgium · Europe
About Sint-Agatha-Rode
Sint-Agatha-Rode works well as a base: 5 minutes from Neerijse, 23km from Villers Abbey.
Sint-Agatha-Rode is in Flanders, Belgium, with about 1,600 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Neerijse, about 4 km away.
Sint-Agatha-Rode, named after the third-century Christian martyr Saint Agatha of Sicily, is a Dutch-speaking village in Belgian province of Flemish Brabant and lies within the district of the town of Huldenberg. Historically Sint-Agatha-Rode was an independent municipality (Gemeente) until the merger of BelgianRead more
municipalities in 1977 when it was joined to the town of Huldenberg.
Sint-Agatha-Rode is located east of the town centre of Huldenberg, in the hills between the valleys of the river Dijle which is the eastern boundary of the Huldenberg district and the river Laan which is the western boundary. North of the town center of Sint Agatha-Rode the Laan joins the Dyle. The eastern boundary of the village is the language barrier with the Walloon villages of Nethen and Pecrot and to the south is the Flemish village of Ottenburg. Sint-Agatha-Rode has developed from being an agricultural village to become a rural residential town.
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What is there to see near Sint-Agatha-Rode?
Within an hour or so of Sint-Agatha-Rode: Leuven Town Hall (11 km), Musée Hergé (13 km), Autoworld Brussels (18 km), Villa Empain (18 km).
Are there any good drives near Sint-Agatha-Rode?
The nearest famous roads are Chimay Street Circuit, Baraque de Fraiture and Brouwersdam.
Where is Sint-Agatha-Rode?
Sint-Agatha-Rode is in Flanders, Belgium, about 4 km from Neerijse.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 1,647
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Belgium
- Region
- Flanders
- Timezone
- Europe/Brussels
- Coordinates
- 50.7860, 4.6310
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Worth the detour from Sint-Agatha-Rode
8 notable places within an hour's 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.
13 km · about 25 min drive
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Autoworld Brussels
300 vehicles spanning a century of motoring displayed in the grand Cinquantenaire Palace arcade.
18 km · about 20 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.
18 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.
20 km · about 25 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.
21 km · about 25 min drive
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Manneken Pis
Small bronze fountain sculpture of a urinating boy that has become a beloved symbol of Brussels since 1619.
21 km · about 25 min drive
ancient ruins
Villers Abbey
The vast romantic ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey, roofless Gothic arches lost in woodland near Brussels.
23 km · about 25 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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