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Averbode

Flanders, Belgium · Europe

About Averbode

Averbode is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Molenstede, 35km from St. Rumbold's Tower.

Averbode is in Flanders, Belgium, with about 3,400 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Molenstede, about 4 km away.

Averbode Abbey is a Premonstratensian abbey situated in Averbode, in the municipality Scherpenheuvel-Zichem (Flemish Brabant), in the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels in Belgium. It was founded about 1134, suppressed in 1797, and reestablished in 1834. Throughout the 20th century the abbey press was a leading

Read more children's publisher in Belgium. The church's building is a peculiar synthesis of Baroque and Gothic, with Renaissance ornament details, dominating the monastery complex. The whole structure was built of iron sandstone from Langdorp and white sandstone from Gobertange between 1664 and 1672, after a design by the Antwerp architect Jan Van den Eynde II.

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What is there to see near Averbode?

Within an hour or so of Averbode: Circuit Zolder (20 km), Leuven Town Hall (26 km), St. Rumbold's Tower (35 km), Antwerp Zoo (44 km).

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The nearest famous roads are Baraque de Fraiture, Brouwersdam and Chimay Street Circuit.

Where is Averbode?

Averbode is in Flanders, Belgium, about 4 km from Molenstede.

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Quick Information

Population
3,396
Continent
Europe
Country
Belgium
Region
Flanders
Timezone
Europe/Brussels
Coordinates
51.0289, 4.9807

Emergency & Services

Essential numbers in Belgium

Police
101
Ambulance
112
Fire
112
All emergencies
112
Driving side
right
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Worth the detour from Averbode

8 notable places within an hour's 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.

20 km · about 25 min drive

landmark

Leuven Town Hall

A lacework masterpiece of late-Gothic stone, crusted with statues and pinnacles in Belgium's great university city.

26 km · about 30 min drive

cathedral

St. Rumbold's Tower

Climb 538 steps up Mechelen's unfinished Gothic tower for a sky-walk panorama reaching as far as Antwerp and Brussels.

35 km · about 40 min drive

landmark

Antwerp Zoo

Historic Belgian zoo next to the central train station, one of the oldest in the world, founded in 1843.

44 km · about 50 min drive

landmark

Antwerpen-Centraal

A cathedral-like railway station of marble, gilt and glass, repeatedly voted one of the most beautiful in the world.

44 km · about 50 min drive

cathedral

Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp

Belgium's tallest Gothic building housing masterpieces by Rubens, with a UNESCO-listed 123-metre tower visible across Flanders.

46 km · about 55 min drive

museum

Autoworld Brussels

300 vehicles spanning a century of motoring displayed in the grand Cinquantenaire Palace arcade.

46 km · about 55 min drive

museum

Plantin-Moretus Museum

The world's oldest surviving printing house, run by the Plantin family in Antwerp from 1576 to 1867 and the only museum on the UNESCO World Heritage list: complete with the two oldest printing presses in existence and a Gutenberg Bible.

46 km · about 55 min drive

Driving roads near Averbode

4 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.

  • 79 kmVaalserberg DrielandenpuntThe Netherlands' highest mainland point at 322.4 metres, where the Dutch, Belgian and German borders meet near Vaals.

Driving in Belgium

Drives on
the right
Petrol
~€1.74/litre
Motorway tolls
None

When to drive here

April to October

Nearby Destinations

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