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.
12 km · about 20 min drive
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Villers-la-Ville
Wallonia, Belgium · Europe
About Villers-la-Ville
Villers-la-Ville works well as a base: 5 minutes from Marbais, 24km from Hallerbos.
Villers-la-Ville is in Wallonia, Belgium, with about 9,600 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Marbais, about 4 km away.
Villers-la-Ville (French pronunciation: [vilɛʁs la vil] ; Walloon: L' Abeye) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant. On January 1, 2006, Villers-la-Ville had a total population of 9,572. The total area is 47.45 km2, giving a population density of 202 inhabitants per km2. TheRead more
municipality also includes the villages of Marbais, Mellery, Sart-Dames-Avelines and Tilly.
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What is there to see near Villers-la-Ville?
Within an hour or so of Villers-la-Ville: Musée Hergé (12 km), Lion's Mound Waterloo (14 km), Nivelles-Baulers (15 km), Hallerbos (24 km).
Are there any good drives near Villers-la-Ville?
The nearest famous roads are Chimay Street Circuit, Baraque de Fraiture and Koninklijke Baan Coast Road.
Where is Villers-la-Ville?
Villers-la-Ville is in Wallonia, Belgium, about 4 km from Marbais.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 9,592
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Belgium
- Region
- Wallonia
- Timezone
- Europe/Brussels
- Coordinates
- 50.5795, 4.5340
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Worth the detour from Villers-la-Ville
8 notable places within an hour's 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.
14 km · about 25 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.
15 km · about 30 min drive
natural wonder
Hallerbos
The 'Blue Forest' near Halle carpets itself with millions of wild bluebells under beech trees each spring.
24 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.
27 km · about 30 min drive
castle
Citadel of Namur
Extensive hilltop fortress at the Sambre-Meuse confluence in Namur, with a scenic road climbing to the ramparts.
27 km · about 30 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.
27 km · about 30 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.
29 km · about 35 min drive
Driving roads near Villers-la-Ville
4 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
- 60 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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