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.
5 km · about 10 min drive
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Wavre
Wallonia, Belgium · Europe
About Wavre
Wavre works well as a base: 5 minutes from Ottenburg, 15km from Villers Abbey.
Wavre is in Wallonia, Belgium, with about 34,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Ottenburg, about 4 km away.
Wavre (French pronunciation: [wavʁ] ; Walloon: Åve-el-Roman-Payis; Dutch: Waver [ˈʋaːvər] ) is a city and municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium.
Wavre is in the Dyle valley. Most inhabitants speak French as their mother tongue and are called "Wavriens" andRead more
"Wavriennes".
The municipality consist of the following sub-municipalities: Bierges, Limal, and Wavre proper.
Wavre is also called "the City of the Maca", referring to the statue of the small boy trying to climb the wall of the city hall. Tradition holds that touching the Maca's buttocks brings a year of luck.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is there to see near Wavre?
Within an hour or so of Wavre: Musée Hergé (5 km), Lion's Mound Waterloo (14 km), Villers Abbey (15 km), Villa Empain (18 km).
Are there any good drives near Wavre?
The nearest famous roads are Chimay Street Circuit, Baraque de Fraiture and Koninklijke Baan Coast Road.
Where is Wavre?
Wavre is in Wallonia, Belgium, about 4 km from Ottenburg.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 34,305
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Belgium
- Region
- Wallonia
- Timezone
- Europe/Brussels
- Coordinates
- 50.7172, 4.6014
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Worth the detour from Wavre
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
ancient ruins
Villers Abbey
The vast romantic ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey, roofless Gothic arches lost in woodland near Brussels.
15 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.
18 km · about 20 min drive
landmark
Leuven Town Hall
A lacework masterpiece of late-Gothic stone, crusted with statues and pinnacles in Belgium's great university city.
19 km · about 20 min drive
museum
Autoworld Brussels
300 vehicles spanning a century of motoring displayed in the grand Cinquantenaire Palace arcade.
20 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.
22 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Grand-Place
Opulent central square in Brussels surrounded by ornate guildhalls and the Gothic town hall, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
23 km · about 25 min drive
Driving roads near Wavre
4 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
- 76 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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