Vieux-Condé is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Escautpont, 57km from Hallerbos.
Vieux-Condé is in Hauts-de-France, France, with about 11,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Escautpont, about 5 km away.
Vieux-Condé (French pronunciation: [vjø kɔ̃de]; Dutch: Oudkonde) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. The village stands on a canalised section of the river Scheldt, adjacent to the northwest of Condé-sur-l'Escaut. It is part of the agglomeration (unité urbaine) of Valenciennes.
Within an hour or so of Vieux-Condé: Pairi Daiza (27 km), Strépy-Thieu Boat Lift (38 km), Vieux Lille (41 km), Canal du Centre Hydraulic Boat Lifts (41 km).
Are there any good drives near Vieux-Condé?
The nearest famous roads are Chimay Street Circuit, Koninklijke Baan Coast Road and Brouwersdam.
Where is Vieux-Condé?
Vieux-Condé is in Hauts-de-France, France, about 5 km from Escautpont.
Road trip
Drive to Vieux-Condé
Add it as a stop and the planner works out the driving, the nights and what's worth seeing on the way.
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.
27 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
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.
38 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
Vieux Lille
Lively old quarter of Flemish brick gables and grand squares, the cultural capital of the French north.
41 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
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.
41 km · about 50 min drive
museum
Louvre-Lens
A luminous glass-and-steel satellite of the Louvre rising from a former coal-mining town.
54 km · about 60 min drive
landmark
Canadian National Vimy Memorial
Twin soaring pylons crown a WWI battlefield of preserved trenches and craters above the Douai plain.
57 km · about 65 min drive
natural wonder
Hallerbos
The 'Blue Forest' near Halle carpets itself with millions of wild bluebells under beech trees each spring.
57 km · about 65 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.
57 km · about 65 min drive
Driving roads near Vieux-Condé
3 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
68 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.