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Vieux Lille
Lively old quarter of Flemish brick gables and grand squares, the cultural capital of the French north.
23 km · about 25 min drive
Wallonia, Belgium · Europe
Tournai is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Kain, 23km from Vieux Lille.
Tournai is a town located in Wallonia, Belgium. With a population of 69,554, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Tournai 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 Tournai to your route.
Tournai ( toor-NAY, French: [tuʁnɛ] ; Picard: Tornai; Walloon: Tornè [tɔʀnɛ] ; Dutch: Doornik [ˈdoːrnɪk] , sometimes anglicised in older sources as "Tournay") is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the Province of Hainaut, Belgium. It lies 89 km (55 mi) by road southwest of the centre of Brussels on theRead more
river Scheldt, and is part of Eurometropolis Lille–Kortrijk–Tournai, In 2022, the municipality of Tournai had an estimated population of 68,518 people.
Tournai is one of the oldest cities in Belgium and has played an important role in the country's cultural history. It was the first capital of the Frankish Empire, with Clovis I being born here.
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Tournai is located in Wallonia, Belgium, Europe. The coordinates are 50.6071 latitude, 3.3893 longitude.
Tournai has a population of approximately 69,554 people, making it a town in Belgium.
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Lively old quarter of Flemish brick gables and grand squares, the cultural capital of the French north.
23 km · about 25 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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A vast memorial arch bearing 54,000 names of the missing, where the Last Post sounds every evening at eight.
44 km · about 50 min drive
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Set in Ypres' rebuilt Cloth Hall, this museum tells the harrowing story of the WWI Western Front trenches.
45 km · about 50 min drive
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A luminous glass-and-steel satellite of the Louvre rising from a former coal-mining town.
46 km · about 55 min drive
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Twin soaring pylons crown a WWI battlefield of preserved trenches and craters above the Douai plain.
50 km · about 60 min drive
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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.
53 km · about 60 min drive
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Vibrant medieval Flemish city with stunning canal-side architecture, the Gravensteen castle, and the famous Ghent Altarpiece.
55 km · about 65 min drive
April to October
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