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.
27 km · about 30 min drive
Flanders, Belgium · Europe
Geel is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Oevel, 39km from St. Rumbold's Tower.
Geel is a town located in Flanders, Belgium. With a population of 34,697, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Geel 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 Geel to your route.
Geel (Dutch pronunciation: [ɣeːl] ) is a municipality and city located in the Belgian province of Antwerp, which acquired city status in the 1980s. It comprises Central-Geel which is composed of four old parishes or towns: Sint-Amand, Sint-Dimpna, Holven and Elsum. Further on around the center are the parish-towns ofRead more
Ten Aard (N), Bel (E), Winkelomheide (SE), Stelen, Oosterlo and Zammel (S), Punt (SW) and Larum (W). In 2021, Geel had a total population of 40,781. The total area is 109.85 km2 (42 sq mi). Geel's patron saint, the Irish Saint Dymphna, inspired the town's pioneering de-institutionalized method of care for the mentally ill.
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Geel is located in Flanders, Belgium, Europe. The coordinates are 51.1656 latitude, 4.9892 longitude.
Geel has a population of approximately 34,697 people, making it a town in Belgium.
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racetrack
A Belgian circuit tragically linked to Gilles Villeneuve's death in 1982, with a rich history in Formula 1 and touring car racing.
27 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
A lacework masterpiece of late-Gothic stone, crusted with statues and pinnacles in Belgium's great university city.
38 km · about 45 min drive
cathedral
Climb 538 steps up Mechelen's unfinished Gothic tower for a sky-walk panorama reaching as far as Antwerp and Brussels.
39 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
Historic Belgian zoo next to the central train station, one of the oldest in the world, founded in 1843.
40 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
A cathedral-like railway station of marble, gilt and glass, repeatedly voted one of the most beautiful in the world.
40 km · about 45 min drive
cathedral
Belgium's tallest Gothic building housing masterpieces by Rubens, with a UNESCO-listed 123-metre tower visible across Flanders.
41 km · about 50 min drive
museum
The world's oldest surviving printing house, run by the Plantin family in Antwerp from 1576 to 1867 and the only museum on the UNESCO World Heritage list: complete with the two oldest printing presses in existence and a Gutenberg Bible.
42 km · about 50 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.
47 km · about 55 min drive
April to October
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