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Vieux Lille
Lively old quarter of Flemish brick gables and grand squares, the cultural capital of the French north.
33 km · about 40 min drive
Flanders, Belgium · Europe
Ruien sits on the route: 5 minutes from Kerkhove, 36km from Gravensteen.
Ruien is a town located in Flanders, Belgium. With a population of 2,795, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Ruien 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 Ruien to your route.
The Arrondissement of Avelgem (Dutch: Arrondissement Avelgem; French: Arrondissement d'Avelgem) was a short-lived arrondissement in present-day Belgium. It was created out of the Arrondissement of Kortrijk in 1818, and it already ceased to exist in 1823.
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Ruien is located in Flanders, Belgium, Europe. The coordinates are 50.7687 latitude, 3.4858 longitude.
Ruien has a population of approximately 2,795 people, making it a town in Belgium.
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8 notable places within an hour's drive.
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Lively old quarter of Flemish brick gables and grand squares, the cultural capital of the French north.
33 km · about 40 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.
35 km · about 40 min drive
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Vibrant medieval Flemish city with stunning canal-side architecture, the Gravensteen castle, and the famous Ghent Altarpiece.
36 km · about 40 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.
36 km · about 40 min drive
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This Gothic cathedral guards the Van Eyck brothers' luminous Ghent Altarpiece, a landmark of European painting.
36 km · about 40 min drive
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Set in Ypres' rebuilt Cloth Hall, this museum tells the harrowing story of the WWI Western Front trenches.
43 km · about 50 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.
43 km · about 50 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.
52 km · about 60 min drive
April to October
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