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Vieux Lille
Lively old quarter of Flemish brick gables and grand squares, the cultural capital of the French north.
30 km · about 35 min drive
Wallonia, Belgium · Europe
Velaines is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Béclers, 46km from Gravensteen.
Velaines is a town located in Wallonia, Belgium. With a population of 1,147, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Velaines 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 Velaines to your route.
La Croix de la Grise is a monument atop an 81-metre (266 ft) hill in Havinnes, in the hills near Tournai, Belgium. It was put up in 1961 by Gabriel Dusquene de la Vinelle, who collected and distributed money to the armed resistance, the work refusers and war victims at Tournai during World War II.
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Velaines is located in Wallonia, Belgium, Europe. The coordinates are 50.6680 latitude, 3.4866 longitude.
Velaines has a population of approximately 1,147 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.
30 km · about 35 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.
30 km · about 35 min drive
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Vibrant medieval Flemish city with stunning canal-side architecture, the Gravensteen castle, and the famous Ghent Altarpiece.
46 km · about 55 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.
46 km · about 55 min drive
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This Gothic cathedral guards the Van Eyck brothers' luminous Ghent Altarpiece, a landmark of European painting.
46 km · about 55 min drive
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Set in Ypres' rebuilt Cloth Hall, this museum tells the harrowing story of the WWI Western Front trenches.
47 km · about 55 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.
47 km · about 55 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.
49 km · about 55 min drive
April to October
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