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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.
5 km · about 10 min drive
Wallonia, Belgium · Europe
Bois-d'Haine works well as a base: 5 minutes from La Hestre, 25km from Hallerbos.
Bois-d'Haine is a town located in Wallonia, Belgium. With a population of 4,467, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Bois-d'Haine 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 Bois-d'Haine to your route.
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Bois-d'Haine is located in Wallonia, Belgium, Europe. The coordinates are 50.5018 latitude, 4.2156 longitude.
Bois-d'Haine has a population of approximately 4,467 people, making it a town in Belgium.
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8 notable places within an hour's drive.
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Four UNESCO-listed 19th-century hydraulic boat lifts near La Louvière, still standing on the old Canal du Centre.
5 km · about 10 min drive
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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.
8 km · about 15 min drive
racetrack
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.
15 km · about 30 min drive
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A grass pyramid topped by a cast-iron lion marks the 1815 battlefield where Napoleon met his final defeat.
24 km · about 30 min drive
natural wonder
The 'Blue Forest' near Halle carpets itself with millions of wild bluebells under beech trees each spring.
25 km · about 30 min drive
ancient ruins
The vast romantic ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey, roofless Gothic arches lost in woodland near Brussels.
25 km · about 30 min drive
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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.
25 km · about 30 min drive
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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.
34 km · about 40 min drive
April to October
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