Hauts-de-France, France · Europe
Valenciennes sits on the route: 5 minutes from Beuvrages, 36km from Pairi Daiza.
Valenciennes is in Hauts-de-France, France, with about 45,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Beuvrages, about 4 km away.
Valenciennes (, also UK: , US: , French: [valɑ̃sjɛn] ; also Dutch: Valencijn; Picard: Valincyinnes or Valinciennes; Latin: Valentianae) is a commune in the Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France.
It lies on the Scheldt (French: Escaut) river. Although the city and region experienced a steady population declineRead more
between 1975 and 1990, it has since rebounded.
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Within an hour or so of Valenciennes: Pairi Daiza (36 km), Strépy-Thieu Boat Lift (43 km), Vieux Lille (45 km), Canal du Centre Hydraulic Boat Lifts (46 km).
The nearest famous roads are Chimay Street Circuit and Koninklijke Baan Coast Road.
Valenciennes is in Hauts-de-France, France, about 4 km from Beuvrages.
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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
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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.
43 km · about 50 min drive
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Lively old quarter of Flemish brick gables and grand squares, the cultural capital of the French north.
45 km · about 50 min drive
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Four UNESCO-listed 19th-century hydraulic boat lifts near La Louvière, still standing on the old Canal du Centre.
46 km · about 55 min drive
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A luminous glass-and-steel satellite of the Louvre rising from a former coal-mining town.
52 km · about 60 min drive
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Twin soaring pylons crown a WWI battlefield of preserved trenches and craters above the Douai plain.
53 km · about 60 min drive
2 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
April to October
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