museum
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.
3 km · about 5 min drive
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Ottignies
Wallonia, Belgium · Europe
About Ottignies
Ottignies works well as a base: 5 minutes from Court-Saint-Étienne, 22km from Hallerbos.
Ottignies is in Wallonia, Belgium, with about 9,600 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Court-Saint-Étienne, about 4 km away.
Ottignies railway station (French: Gare d'Ottignies; Dutch: Station Ottignies) is a railway station in Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Walloon Brabant, Belgium.
The station was opened in 1855 by the Grande Compagnie de Luxembourg, and from 1884, had a station building designed by the architect Charles Licot. This buildingRead more
was destroyed in 1996 and replaced by a new, modern and functional building inaugurated in 1999. In 2024, it was the third busiest station in Wallonia after Liège-Guillemins and Namur (serving a similar number of passengers), and the ninth-busiest in Belgium.
Ottignies is an important station on the National Railway Company of Belgium (SNCB/NMBS) network. It is served by InterCity (IC), suburban (S), local (L), rush hour (P) and touristic (ICT) trains. The station is a keilbahnhof: it lies along railway line 161 (Brussels to Namur) and at the ends of railway lines 139 (Leuven to Ottignies) and 140 (Ottignies to Marcinelle). South of Ottignies, stroke line 161D goes to Louvain-la-Neuve.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is there to see near Ottignies?
Within an hour or so of Ottignies: Musée Hergé (3 km), Villers Abbey (9 km), Lion's Mound Waterloo (11 km), Nivelles-Baulers (18 km).
Are there any good drives near Ottignies?
The nearest famous roads are Chimay Street Circuit, Baraque de Fraiture and Koninklijke Baan Coast Road.
Where is Ottignies?
Ottignies is in Wallonia, Belgium, about 4 km from Court-Saint-Étienne.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 9,557
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Belgium
- Region
- Wallonia
- Timezone
- Europe/Brussels
- Coordinates
- 50.6653, 4.5668
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Worth the detour from Ottignies
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
ancient ruins
Villers Abbey
The vast romantic ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey, roofless Gothic arches lost in woodland near Brussels.
9 km · about 15 min drive
landmark
Lion's Mound Waterloo
A grass pyramid topped by a cast-iron lion marks the 1815 battlefield where Napoleon met his final defeat.
11 km · about 20 min drive
racetrack
Nivelles-Baulers
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.
18 km · about 20 min drive
museum
Villa Empain
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.
20 km · about 25 min drive
natural wonder
Hallerbos
The 'Blue Forest' near Halle carpets itself with millions of wild bluebells under beech trees each spring.
22 km · about 25 min drive
museum
Autoworld Brussels
300 vehicles spanning a century of motoring displayed in the grand Cinquantenaire Palace arcade.
23 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Grand-Place
Opulent central square in Brussels surrounded by ornate guildhalls and the Gothic town hall, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
25 km · about 30 min drive
Driving roads near Ottignies
4 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
- 70 kmChimay Street CircuitA 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.
Driving in Belgium
- Drives on
- the right
- Petrol
- ~€1.74/litre
- Motorway tolls
- None
When to drive here
April to October
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