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Musée Hergé
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.
19 km · about 20 min drive
Wallonia, Belgium · Europe
Jodoigne works well as a base: 5 minutes from Piétrain, 28km from Villers Abbey.
Jodoigne is a town located in Wallonia, Belgium. With a population of 11,930, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Jodoigne 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 Jodoigne to your route.
Jodoigne (French: [ʒɔdɔɲ] ; Walloon: Djodogne [dʒɔdɔɲ] ; Dutch: Geldenaken [ˈɣɛldəˌnaːkə(n)] ) is a municipality and city of Wallonia located in the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium.
On January 1, 2006, Jodoigne had a total population of 12,440. The total area is 73.31 km2 (28.31 sq mi) which gives a populationRead more
density of 170 inhabitants per square kilometre (440/sq mi).
The municipality consists of the following districts: Dongelberg, Jauchelette, Jodoigne, Jodoigne-Souveraine, Lathuy, Piétrain, Saint-Jean-Geest (including the hamlet of Sainte-Marie-Geest), Saint-Remy-Geest, and Zétrud-Lumay.
In the 1568 Battle of Jodoigne, one of the early battles of the Eighty Years' War, the Spanish Duke of Alba defeated a Dutch rebel force under William the Silent.
The previous mayor of Jodoigne, Louis Michel, a liberal politician was the Belgian foreign minister from 1999 until 2004 and was the Belgian European commissioner from 2004 until 2009. The current mayor is Jean-Paul Wahl.
The asteroid 1199 Geldonia was named in its honour (from the Latin form of the name) by Eugène Delporte.
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Jodoigne is located in Wallonia, Belgium, Europe. The coordinates are 50.7236 latitude, 4.8691 longitude.
Jodoigne has a population of approximately 11,930 people, making it a town in Belgium.
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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.
19 km · about 20 min drive
landmark
A lacework masterpiece of late-Gothic stone, crusted with statues and pinnacles in Belgium's great university city.
21 km · about 25 min drive
ancient ruins
The vast romantic ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey, roofless Gothic arches lost in woodland near Brussels.
28 km · about 30 min drive
castle
One of Europe's mightiest hilltop fortresses guards the confluence of the Sambre and Meuse rivers in Wallonia's capital.
29 km · about 35 min drive
castle
Extensive hilltop fortress at the Sambre-Meuse confluence in Namur, with a scenic road climbing to the ramparts.
29 km · about 35 min drive
landmark
A grass pyramid topped by a cast-iron lion marks the 1815 battlefield where Napoleon met his final defeat.
33 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
museum
300 vehicles spanning a century of motoring displayed in the grand Cinquantenaire Palace arcade.
36 km · about 40 min drive
April to October
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