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DAF Museum
Eindhoven museum charting Dutch truck maker DAF, from quirky Variomatic-transmission city cars to giant race trucks, displayed near the original 1928 workshop.
2 km · about 5 min drive
EuropeNetherlandsNorth Brabant
Tongelre
North Brabant, Netherlands · Europe
About Tongelre
Tongelre is worth a stop: 56km from Hoge Kempen National Park.
Tongelre is in North Brabant, Netherlands, with about 20,000 people. You drive on the right here.
Tongelre is a borough of Eindhoven. It used to be a separate village to the east of Eindhoven. Waterways comprise most of its borders. It is bordered to the south by a canal, the "Eindhovensch Kanaal" to the borough of Stratum and Geldrop municipality. In the northwest the border with Woensel borough is formed by theRead more
river "Dommel" and to the east by the river "Kleine Dommel" (little Dommel) towards Nuenen municipality.
Tongelre was a separate municipality until 1920, when it became part of the municipality of Eindhoven. Today it has nearly 20.000 inhabitants. It is the least urbanised part of Eindhoven.
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What is there to see near Tongelre?
Within an hour or so of Tongelre: DAF Museum (2 km), St. John's Cathedral, 's-Hertogenbosch (30 km), Sint-Janskathedraal (31 km), Toverland (33 km).
Are there any good drives near Tongelre?
The nearest famous roads are Brouwersdam, Houtribdijk and Baraque de Fraiture.
Where is Tongelre?
Tongelre is in North Brabant, Netherlands.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 19,680
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Netherlands
- Region
- North Brabant
- Timezone
- Europe/Amsterdam
- Coordinates
- 51.4489, 5.5198
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Worth the detour from Tongelre
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
cathedral
St. John's Cathedral, 's-Hertogenbosch
Brabantine Gothic cathedral in 's-Hertogenbosch, noted for hundreds of stone figures straddling its flying buttresses.
30 km · about 35 min drive
cathedral
Sint-Janskathedraal
The Netherlands' finest Gothic cathedral bristles with grotesque flying-buttress carvings in Hieronymus Bosch's home city.
31 km · about 35 min drive
landmark
Toverland
Dutch indoor-outdoor theme park in Limburg offering a mix of thrill rides and family attractions in themed areas.
33 km · about 40 min drive
landmark
Efteling
Enchanting Dutch fairy-tale theme park with immersive storytelling, dark rides, and world-class roller coasters.
39 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
Thorn
The 'white village' of Limburg: an entire former abbey-principality of whitewashed brick lanes and cobbles beside the Maas, painted white in the Napoleonic era to dodge a window tax and kept that way ever since.
39 km · about 45 min 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.
54 km · about 65 min drive
national park
Hoge Kempen National Park
Belgium's first national park, a heath and pine landscape in Limburg with six gateway entrances and visitor car parks.
56 km · about 65 min drive
Driving in Netherlands
- Drives on
- the right
- Petrol
- ~€2.04/litre
- Motorway tolls
- None
When to drive here
April to October
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