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Vieux Lille
Lively old quarter of Flemish brick gables and grand squares, the cultural capital of the French north.
29 km · about 35 min drive
Flanders, Belgium · Europe
Heestert is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Escanaffles, 37km from Gravensteen.
Heestert is a town located in Flanders, Belgium. With a population of 2,864, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Heestert 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 Heestert to your route.
Heestert is a village in the south of the Belgian province of West Flanders and since 1976 has been part of the Zwevegem municipality. It has an area of 13 km2 and population of 2,880.
The Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Assumption Church includes a late Gothic choir and two side chapels of the former church from 1500. In 1771 a newRead more
single-aisled nave with a western tower was built. The church was restored after burning down in 1931. Next to the church is the Heestert Military Cemetery with the graves of 127 British soldiers and 57 Germans who died at the end of October 1918 during the Hundred Days Offensive.
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Heestert is located in Flanders, Belgium, Europe. The coordinates are 50.7820 latitude, 3.4122 longitude.
Heestert has a population of approximately 2,864 people, making it a town in Belgium.
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Lively old quarter of Flemish brick gables and grand squares, the cultural capital of the French north.
29 km · about 35 min drive
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Vibrant medieval Flemish city with stunning canal-side architecture, the Gravensteen castle, and the famous Ghent Altarpiece.
37 km · about 45 min drive
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A grim moated stone castle of the Counts of Flanders rising straight from the canals in the centre of Ghent.
37 km · about 45 min drive
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A vast memorial arch bearing 54,000 names of the missing, where the Last Post sounds every evening at eight.
37 km · about 45 min drive
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This Gothic cathedral guards the Van Eyck brothers' luminous Ghent Altarpiece, a landmark of European painting.
37 km · about 45 min drive
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Set in Ypres' rebuilt Cloth Hall, this museum tells the harrowing story of the WWI Western Front trenches.
38 km · about 45 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.
40 km · about 45 min drive
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The medieval heart of Bruges, where the climbable Belfry tower looms over a square of stepped-gable guild houses.
49 km · about 55 min drive
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