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Chimay is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Baileux, 49km from Citadelle de Dinant.
Chimay is in Wallonia, Belgium, with about 9,700 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Baileux, about 5 km away.
Chimay (French pronunciation: [ʃimɛ] , Walloon: Chimai) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. In 2006, Chimay had a population of 9,774. The area is 197.10 km2 which gives a population density of 50 inhabitants per km2. It is the source of the Oise River.
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administrative district of Thuin, the municipality was created with a merger of 14 communes in 1977. The Trappist monastery of Scourmont Abbey in the town is famous for the Chimay Brewery.
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Within an hour or so of Chimay: Chimay Street Circuit (3 km), Rocroi (20 km), Belvédère de la Longue Roche (34 km), Citadelle de Dinant (49 km).
The nearest famous roads are Chimay Street Circuit, Baraque de Fraiture and Voie Sacrée.
Chimay is in Wallonia, Belgium, about 5 km from Baileux.
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8 notable places within an hour's drive.
historic highway
A 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.
3 km · about 5 min drive
landmark
Perfect star-shaped bastioned town in the French Ardennes, laid out in 1555 and remodelled by Vauban, its five-pointed geometry of ramparts and radial streets still fully intact.
20 km · about 25 min drive
photogenic
Quartzite ledge 140 m above Monthermé with the classic head-on view of the Meuse doubling back in a full horseshoe meander: the signature photograph of the French Ardennes, a short walk from roadside parking.
34 km · about 40 min drive
castle
A cliff-top fortress towering over the Meuse and a riverfront of pastel houses below the bulbous onion-domed church.
49 km · about 55 min drive
castle
Clifftop fortress above the Meuse at Dinant, reached by 408 steps or a cable car, overlooking the river road.
49 km · about 55 min drive
landmark
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.
50 km · about 60 min drive
landmark
Four UNESCO-listed 19th-century hydraulic boat lifts near La Louvière, still standing on the old Canal du Centre.
50 km · about 55 min drive
scenic viewpoint
A famous Semois viewpoint where the river loops around a tree-covered ridge resembling a giant's tomb near Botassart.
57 km · about 65 min drive
3 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
April to October
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