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St. Rumbold's Tower
Climb 538 steps up Mechelen's unfinished Gothic tower for a sky-walk panorama reaching as far as Antwerp and Brussels.
5 km · about 10 min drive
Flanders, Belgium · Europe
Walem works well as a base: 5 minutes from Heffen, 5km from St. Rumbold's Tower.
Walem is a town located in Flanders, Belgium. With a population of 1,988, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Walem 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 Walem to your route.
Roosendael Abbey (the abbey of the valley of roses) was a community of Cistercian nuns, founded in the 13th century on the banks of the River Nete in the Duchy of Brabant, at a location now in Elzestraat, in the Sint-Katelijne-Waver municipality. The monastery was established in or before 1227 by the nobleman GillisRead more
Berthout, according to later tradition for his daughters Elizabeth and Oda. An early member of the community who gave it a wider reputation for sanctity was Blessed Ida of Louvain.
The monastery was ordered closed in 1795, during the French occupation of Belgium, and the nuns were forced off the premises in January 1797. The main building became a country house in the 19th century.
In 1828 the archivist of the National Archives of Belgium was notified that a pile of old parchment was available from a second-hand clothes dealer in Brussels. This transpired to be the remains of the monastery's archives, with over a thousand documents, including papal bulls and ducal charters, the oldest going back to 1235.
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Walem is located in Flanders, Belgium, Europe. The coordinates are 51.0671 latitude, 4.4584 longitude.
Walem has a population of approximately 1,988 people, making it a town in Belgium.
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8 notable places within an hour's drive.
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Climb 538 steps up Mechelen's unfinished Gothic tower for a sky-walk panorama reaching as far as Antwerp and Brussels.
5 km · about 10 min drive
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Belgium's tallest Gothic building housing masterpieces by Rubens, with a UNESCO-listed 123-metre tower visible across Flanders.
17 km · about 20 min drive
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Historic Belgian zoo next to the central train station, one of the oldest in the world, founded in 1843.
17 km · about 20 min drive
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A cathedral-like railway station of marble, gilt and glass, repeatedly voted one of the most beautiful in the world.
17 km · about 20 min drive
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The world's oldest surviving printing house, run by the Plantin family in Antwerp from 1576 to 1867 and the only museum on the UNESCO World Heritage list: complete with the two oldest printing presses in existence and a Gutenberg Bible.
17 km · about 20 min drive
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Futuristic building in Brussels shaped like an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times, built for the 1958 World Expo.
21 km · about 25 min drive
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Opulent central square in Brussels surrounded by ornate guildhalls and the Gothic town hall, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
26 km · about 30 min drive
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Small bronze fountain sculpture of a urinating boy that has become a beloved symbol of Brussels since 1619.
26 km · about 30 min drive
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