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Strépy-Thieu Boat Lift
A colossal 73 m boat elevator on the Canal du Centre, among the tallest in the world, hoisting entire barges in a concrete cathedral visible for miles across Hainaut.
3 km · about 5 min drive
Wallonia, Belgium · Europe
Maurage works well as a base: 5 minutes from Trivières, 31km from Hallerbos.
Maurage is a town located in Wallonia, Belgium. With a population of 5,098, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Maurage 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 Maurage to your route.
Boussoit (Walloon: Bouswa) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of La Louvière, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. It was a separate municipality before the merger of municipalities in 1977.
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Maurage is located in Wallonia, Belgium, Europe. The coordinates are 50.4565 latitude, 4.0970 longitude.
Maurage has a population of approximately 5,098 people, making it a town in Belgium.
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A colossal 73 m boat elevator on the Canal du Centre, among the tallest in the world, hoisting entire barges in a concrete cathedral visible for miles across Hainaut.
3 km · about 5 min drive
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Four UNESCO-listed 19th-century hydraulic boat lifts near La Louvière, still standing on the old Canal du Centre.
5 km · about 10 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.
21 km · about 25 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.
24 km · about 30 min drive
natural wonder
The 'Blue Forest' near Halle carpets itself with millions of wild bluebells under beech trees each spring.
31 km · about 35 min drive
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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
ancient ruins
The vast romantic ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey, roofless Gothic arches lost in woodland near Brussels.
34 km · about 40 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.
44 km · about 50 min drive
April to October
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