8 notable places within an hour's drive.
photogenic
Belvédère de la Longue Roche
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.
18 km · about 20 min drive
scenic viewpoint
Tombeau du Géant
A famous Semois viewpoint where the river loops around a tree-covered ridge resembling a giant's tomb near Botassart.
20 km · about 25 min drive
castle
Château de Bouillon
Godfrey of Bouillon's rambling medieval fortress sprawls over a rocky spur in a loop of the Semois in the Ardennes.
21 km · about 25 min drive
castle
Castle of Bouillon
Medieval fortress on a rock spur in a Semois river loop in the Ardennes, associated with Godfrey of Bouillon.
21 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Rocroi
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.
28 km · about 35 min drive
landmark
Redu
Ardennes hamlet reborn in 1984 as Europe's second 'book town', its barns and cottages housing a dozen second-hand bookshops, binderies and galleries, with the Euro Space Center just across the motorway.
41 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
Orval Abbey
Romantic medieval abbey ruins beside a working Trappist monastery in the Gaume forest, source of the cult Orval beer; visit the ruins and museum, then drink the beer at the Ange Gardien inn opposite the gate.
42 km · about 50 min drive
historic highway
Chimay Street Circuit
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.
51 km · about 60 min drive