Baudour is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Sirault, 40km from Hallerbos.
Baudour is in Wallonia, Belgium, with about 6,100 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Sirault, about 4 km away.
Baudour (French pronunciation: [boduʁ]) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Saint-Ghislain. It is located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium, at an average altitude of 53 meters above the sea level. As of 2022, the village had a population of 6,049.
Within an hour or so of Baudour: Pairi Daiza (12 km), Strépy-Thieu Boat Lift (20 km), Canal du Centre Hydraulic Boat Lifts (22 km), Nivelles-Baulers (38 km).
Are there any good drives near Baudour?
The nearest famous roads are Chimay Street Circuit, Koninklijke Baan Coast Road and Baraque de Fraiture.
Where is Baudour?
Baudour is in Wallonia, Belgium, about 4 km from Sirault.
Road trip
Drive to Baudour
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.
12 km · about 20 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.
20 km · about 25 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.
22 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.
38 km · about 45 min drive
natural wonder
Hallerbos
The 'Blue Forest' near Halle carpets itself with millions of wild bluebells under beech trees each spring.
40 km · about 45 min 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.
46 km · about 55 min drive
ancient ruins
Villers Abbey
The vast romantic ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey, roofless Gothic arches lost in woodland near Brussels.
51 km · about 60 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.
53 km · about 60 min drive
Driving roads near Baudour
4 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
57 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.