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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.
5 km · about 10 min drive
Wallonia, Belgium · Europe
Wavre works well as a base: 5 minutes from Ottenburg, 14km from Villers Abbey.
Wavre is a town located in Wallonia, Belgium. With a population of 34,305, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Wavre 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 Wavre to your route.
Wavre (French pronunciation: [wavʁ] ; Walloon: Åve-el-Roman-Payis; Dutch: Waver [ˈʋaːvər] ) is a city and municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium.
Wavre is in the Dyle valley. Most inhabitants speak French as their mother tongue and are called "Wavriens" andRead more
"Wavriennes".
The municipality consist of the following sub-municipalities: Bierges, Limal, and Wavre proper.
Wavre is also called "the City of the Maca", referring to the statue of the small boy trying to climb the wall of the city hall. Tradition holds that touching the Maca's buttocks brings a year of luck.
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Wavre is located in Wallonia, Belgium, Europe. The coordinates are 50.7172 latitude, 4.6014 longitude.
Wavre has a population of approximately 34,305 people, making it a town in Belgium.
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museum
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.
5 km · about 10 min drive
landmark
A grass pyramid topped by a cast-iron lion marks the 1815 battlefield where Napoleon met his final defeat.
14 km · about 25 min drive
ancient ruins
The vast romantic ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey, roofless Gothic arches lost in woodland near Brussels.
14 km · about 25 min drive
museum
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.
18 km · about 20 min drive
landmark
A lacework masterpiece of late-Gothic stone, crusted with statues and pinnacles in Belgium's great university city.
19 km · about 20 min drive
museum
300 vehicles spanning a century of motoring displayed in the grand Cinquantenaire Palace arcade.
20 km · about 25 min drive
racetrack
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.
22 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Opulent central square in Brussels surrounded by ornate guildhalls and the Gothic town hall, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
23 km · about 25 min drive
April to October
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