ancient ruins
Villers Abbey
The vast romantic ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey, roofless Gothic arches lost in woodland near Brussels.
12 km · about 25 min drive
Wallonia, Belgium · Europe
Gembloux works well as a base: 5 minutes from Corroy-le-Château, 12km from Villers Abbey.
Gembloux is a town located in Wallonia, Belgium. With a population of 21,676, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Gembloux 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 Gembloux to your route.
Gembloux (French: [ʒɑ̃blu] ; Walloon: Djiblou; Dutch: Gembloers [ˈɣɛmbluːrs]) is a municipality and city of Wallonia located in the province of Namur, Belgium.
On 1 January 2006, the municipality had 21,964 inhabitants. The total area is 95.86 km2, yielding a population density of 229 inhabitants per km2. The mayor,Read more
who was elected on 8 October 2006, is Benoît Dispa.
The municipality consists of the following districts: Beuzet, Bossière, Bothey, Corroy-le-Château, Ernage, Gembloux, Grand-Leez, Grand-Manil, Isnes, Lonzée, Mazy, and Sauvenière.
This city is well known for its Agricultural University and for its cutlery. The university is housed in the historical Abbey of Gembloux, which dates from the tenth century.
Gembloux's belfry is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as part of the Belfries of Belgium and France site, in recognition of its architecture and testimony to the rise in municipal power in the area.
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Gembloux is located in Wallonia, Belgium, Europe. The coordinates are 50.5615 latitude, 4.6989 longitude.
Gembloux has a population of approximately 21,676 people, making it a town in Belgium.
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ancient ruins
The vast romantic ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey, roofless Gothic arches lost in woodland near Brussels.
12 km · about 25 min drive
museum
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.
14 km · about 25 min drive
castle
One of Europe's mightiest hilltop fortresses guards the confluence of the Sambre and Meuse rivers in Wallonia's capital.
16 km · about 20 min drive
castle
Extensive hilltop fortress at the Sambre-Meuse confluence in Namur, with a scenic road climbing to the ramparts.
16 km · about 20 min drive
landmark
A grass pyramid topped by a cast-iron lion marks the 1815 battlefield where Napoleon met his final defeat.
25 km · about 30 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.
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.
35 km · about 40 min drive
museum
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.
35 km · about 40 min drive
April to October
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