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.
21 km · about 25 min drive
Flanders, Belgium · Europe
Balen is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Mol, 41km from Hoge Kempen National Park.
Balen is a town located in Flanders, Belgium. With a population of 19,978, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Balen sits in Belgium, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Brussels time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Balen to your route.
Balen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbaːlə(n)] ) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises the towns of Balen proper and Olmen. In 2021, Balen had a population of 22,853. The total area of Balen is 72.88 km2.
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Balen is located in Flanders, Belgium, Europe. The coordinates are 51.1684 latitude, 5.1703 longitude.
Balen has a population of approximately 19,978 people, making it a town in Belgium.
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8 notable places within an hour's drive.
racetrack
A Belgian circuit tragically linked to Gilles Villeneuve's death in 1982, with a rich history in Formula 1 and touring car racing.
21 km · about 25 min drive
museum
Eindhoven museum charting Dutch truck maker DAF, from quirky Variomatic-transmission city cars to giant race trucks, displayed near the original 1928 workshop.
38 km · about 45 min drive
national park
Belgium's first national park, a heath and pine landscape in Limburg with six gateway entrances and visitor car parks.
41 km · about 50 min drive
landmark
A lacework masterpiece of late-Gothic stone, crusted with statues and pinnacles in Belgium's great university city.
46 km · about 55 min drive
landmark
The 'white village' of Limburg: an entire former abbey-principality of whitewashed brick lanes and cobbles beside the Maas, painted white in the Napoleonic era to dodge a window tax and kept that way ever since.
47 km · about 55 min drive
landmark
A grand cafe-ringed square anchored by two medieval churches in the Netherlands' oldest, most Burgundian city.
51 km · about 60 min drive
cathedral
Climb 538 steps up Mechelen's unfinished Gothic tower for a sky-walk panorama reaching as far as Antwerp and Brussels.
51 km · about 60 min drive
landmark
Historic Belgian zoo next to the central train station, one of the oldest in the world, founded in 1843.
52 km · about 60 min drive
April to October
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