Bernissart is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Bon-Secours, 51km from Hallerbos.
Bernissart is in Wallonia, Belgium, with about 12,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Bon-Secours, about 4 km away.
Bernissart (French pronunciation: [bɛʁnisaʁ]; Picard: Bernissåt) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
On January 1, 2024, Bernissart had a total population of 11,878. The total area is 43.81 km2, which gives a population density of 271 inhabitants per km2.
The municipalityRead more consists of the following districts: Blaton, Bernissart, Harchies, Pommerœul, and Ville-Pommerœul.
Within an hour or so of Bernissart: Pairi Daiza (21 km), Strépy-Thieu Boat Lift (33 km), Canal du Centre Hydraulic Boat Lifts (35 km), Vieux Lille (45 km).
Are there any good drives near Bernissart?
The nearest famous roads are Chimay Street Circuit, Koninklijke Baan Coast Road and Brouwersdam.
Where is Bernissart?
Bernissart is in Wallonia, Belgium, about 4 km from Bon-Secours.
Road trip
Drive to Bernissart
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.
21 km · about 25 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.
33 km · about 40 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.
35 km · about 40 min drive
landmark
Vieux Lille
Lively old quarter of Flemish brick gables and grand squares, the cultural capital of the French north.
45 km · about 50 min drive
natural wonder
Hallerbos
The 'Blue Forest' near Halle carpets itself with millions of wild bluebells under beech trees each spring.
51 km · about 60 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.
51 km · about 60 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.
58 km · about 65 min drive
Driving roads near Bernissart
4 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
64 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.