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Complete travel guide to Belgium. Handpicked places including waterfalls, mountain roads, thermal springs, UNESCO sites, scenic drives and hidden gems. All with GPS coordinates.
The River Lesse disappears into the rock and resurfaces two kilometres later. In between, it has carved out chambers so vast you forget you're underground. Belgium's most spectacular cave ends with a sound and light show that makes the stalactites glow.
GPS: 50.1183, 5.1989
The facade is 50 per cent wider than Buckingham Palace. Belgium's royal palace from 1904 is a neoclassical power statement in the heart of Brussels. The king doesn't live here but works here. In summer the magnificent halls open to the public — free of charge.
GPS: 50.8417, 4.3622
Canals, cobblestones and Flemish Gothic frozen in time since the 1400s. Bruges is a full-scale medieval masterpiece — UNESCO World Heritage since 2000. The chocolate shops are as old as the city's pride, and the lace still hangs in the windows.
GPS: 51.2093, 3.2247
UNESCO called it the most beautiful square in the world. Gilded Baroque facades from the 1690s enclose a cobbled square in the heart of Brussels. Every two years in August, the square is covered by a flower carpet of 1,800 m² made from 600,000 begonias.
GPS: 50.8467, 4.3525
Five towers rise above Belgium's oldest city. Notre-Dame de Tournai is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most impressive church interiors in Northern Europe — a Romanesque nave from the 12th century meets a Gothic choir from the 13th in a building that feels like two churches in one.
GPS: 50.6053, 3.3883
The Ghent Altarpiece. The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb by the van Eyck brothers from 1432 hangs here — one of the most important artworks in Western art history. Stolen by Napoleon, looted by the Nazis, recovered from a salt mine. Now behind armoured glass in its own chapel.
GPS: 51.0535, 3.7274
A 60-metre tower of red Indian sandstone and curved glass panels stacked like containers in the old harbour. MAS is Antwerp's landmark from 2011 — and the rooftop terrace with 360° panorama is free. 3,185 aluminium hands adorn the facade, a symbol for the city whose name means 'hand throw'.
GPS: 51.2290, 4.4050
An iron crystal magnified 165 billion times. The Atomium was built for the 1958 World's Fair and was meant to be demolished afterwards — but Brussels couldn't let go. 102 metres tall, nine spheres connected by tubes, and up in the top sphere you see the entire city.
GPS: 50.8948, 4.3418
The world's largest collection of René Magritte's works. Over 200 paintings, drawings and sculptures by the man who put a bowler hat on surrealism. Three floors in a neoclassical palace on Place Royale — from early Cubist experiments to the iconic pipe paintings.
GPS: 50.8422, 4.3590
Medieval guild halls on one bank, baroque houses on the other, and between them flows the Leie canal. Ghent's Graslei and Korenlei form one of Europe's most beautiful urban spaces — and at night the facades glow in warm light while students sit along the quay with beer and frites.
GPS: 51.0548, 3.7208
The railway cathedral. Antwerpen Centraal from 1905 has a dome of glass and steel, marble floors and a staircase that belongs in a palace. Regularly voted one of the world's most beautiful train stations — and you don't even need a ticket to walk in.
GPS: 51.2162, 4.4211
A massive stone castle from 1180 right in the city centre. Gravensteen in Ghent was the counts' seat, later a prison, cotton mill and fire station — and today is the best-preserved medieval castle in Flanders. From the roof terrace you see all of Ghent.
GPS: 51.0572, 3.7208
A cliff face, a cathedral and a citadel stacked on top of each other beside the River Meuse. Dinant is Belgium's most dramatic townscape — and birthplace of Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone. Cable car up to the citadel, where the view takes your breath away.
GPS: 50.2619, 4.9128
Belgium's oldest feudal castle towers over a loop of the River Semois in the Ardennes. Bouillon Castle belonged to Godfrey of Bouillon, leader of the First Crusade in 1096. He mortgaged the castle to finance his army — and never came back.
GPS: 49.7927, 5.0653
54,896 names. The Menin Gate in Ieper is a memorial to soldiers of the British Empire who fell at Ypres in World War I and were never found. Every evening at 8 PM the Last Post is sounded under the arch — a tradition unbroken since 1928, even during German occupation.
GPS: 50.8520, 2.8912
226 steps up an artificial mound with a 28-ton iron lion on top. From here you overlook the battlefield where Napoleon met his end on 18 June 1815. Waterloo changed European history — and the view gives you the full picture.
GPS: 50.6784, 4.4048
The world's smallest city. Durbuy in the Ardennes has held city rights since 1331, but fewer than 500 people live there. Cobbled streets, stone houses from the 17th century, a castle ruin, and the River Ourthe winding past. Everything in miniature — and charming to bursting point.
GPS: 50.3534, 5.4574
Gothic arches open to the sky. Abbaye de Villers is the ruin of a Cistercian monastery from 1146 — one of the most atmospheric places in Belgium. The church was 90 metres long, and the ruins are overgrown with ivy and wildflowers. The silence is almost physical.
GPS: 50.5907, 4.5298
Belgium's highest waterfall — 15 metres. The Coo waterfalls near Stavelot in the Ardennes aren't Niagara, but in a flat country like Belgium they're impressive enough. The River Amblève plunges over the rock in an arc surrounded by forest, and the spray reaches you on the bridge.
GPS: 50.3935, 5.8768
Belgium's Versailles. Château de Beloeil has been in the Prince de Ligne's family for 800 years. Formal gardens with a 400-metre reflecting pond, and inside one of Europe's finest private collections of furniture, paintings and 17th-century books.
GPS: 50.5510, 3.7301
Five round towers with conical roofs — a castle straight from a fairy tale. Château de Vèves in the province of Namur dates from the 13th century and has been in the same family for over 700 years. One of Wallonia's best-preserved medieval castles, surrounded by forest and silence.
GPS: 50.2207, 4.9826
The shrine of Art Nouveau. Victor Horta's own home in Brussels is a UNESCO World Heritage Site — every railing, every window, every door handle designed as an organic whole. Horta invented an entire style, and this house is his masterpiece.
GPS: 50.8241, 4.3554
Belgium's only national park. 12,000 hectares of pine forest, heathland and lakes in the former mining area of Limburg. A surprisingly wild landscape in an otherwise densely populated country — with hiking trails through heather, sand and quiet pine forests.
GPS: 50.9513, 5.6321
The word 'spa' comes from here. Spa in the Ardennes has been a thermal town since Roman times, and Peter the Great of Russia bathed here in 1717. Thermes de Spa sits on a hilltop with panoramic views over the town and forests — and the water is still warm.
GPS: 50.4919, 5.8643
Napoleon called it Europe's termite mound. The Citadelle de Namur towers over the confluence of the Sambre and Meuse and is one of the continent's largest fortresses — 80 hectares of underground passages, bastions and views over two river valleys.
GPS: 50.4593, 4.8614
11,961 graves. Tyne Cot near Passchendaele is the world's largest Commonwealth war cemetery. The white headstones stretch in perfect rows as far as the eye can see, and behind them a wall with 33,783 more names of missing soldiers.
GPS: 50.8872, 2.9992
A castle ruin from the 9th century crowns the cliff above the little town in the Ourthe valley. La Roche-en-Ardenne is one of the most beautiful spots in the Ardennes — surrounded by dense forest, with kayaking on the river and hiking trails in all directions. Belgium's green heart.
GPS: 50.1603, 5.5628
Gustav Klimt's mosaics adorn the dining room of this private palace in Brussels. The Stoclet Palace from 1911 is a Gesamtkunstwerk by Josef Hoffmann and the Wiener Werkstätte — a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of Art Nouveau's absolute masterpieces. Only visible from outside, but that's enough.
GPS: 50.8352, 4.4163
UNESCO World Heritage since 2003. The Binche Carnival is one of Europe's oldest town carnivals — Gilles in wax masks, clogs and enormous ostrich-feather hats dance through the streets throwing oranges to spectators. Mardi Gras in the heart of Belgium, with 600 years of unbroken tradition.
GPS: 50.4103, 4.1652
An underground cathedral. The Grotte de Lorette in Rochefort has a chamber 65 metres high — Belgium's largest underground space. Stalactites, stalagmites and an underground stream 60 metres below the city streets. You feel small. That's the point.
GPS: 50.1549, 5.2274
Belgium's largest body of water — five reservoir lakes amid the green. Lacs de l'Eau d'Heure has beaches, sailing, water skiing and a skywalk over the Plate Taille dam. A miniature lake district in a country without natural lakes.
GPS: 50.1885, 4.3867
Carrières de Sprimont in the province of Liège, Belgium — a quarry that has supplied blue stone for everything from the Fragnée bridge in 1900 to the Guillemins station in 2012. The 1905 power plant is now an exhibition centre, and every year a stone sculpture festival draws artists from across Europe. The sound of chisel on stone raises the hairs on your arms.
GPS: 50.5028, 5.6066
Fort de la Chartreuse in Liège, Belgium — 30 hectares of abandoned military fort where nature is slowly swallowing brick and casemate. Built 1817-1823 by the Dutch, used as a prison by the Germans in both World Wars, abandoned in 1982. Ivy creeps up walls that once housed 3,000 soldiers. The silence is deafening.
GPS: 50.6320, 5.5988
Pool of Peace at Spanbroekmolen in West Flanders, Belgium — a tranquil lake in a crater created at 3:10 a.m. on 7 June 1917. The British detonated 41,000 kg of explosives beneath the German position on the Messines Ridge. The crater is 76 metres wide and 12 metres deep. Today frogs sing where soldiers died.
GPS: 50.7758, 2.8617
Bois du Cazier in Marcinelle, Hainaut, Belgium — a UNESCO coal mine where 262 miners of 12 nationalities perished on 8 August 1956. A torn cable sparked a fire in the shaft at 8:10 in the morning. The two headframes still stand as silent witnesses. The names of the dead are carved in stone. The air feels heavier here.
GPS: 50.3806, 4.4428
Doel in East Flanders, Belgium — a ghost town on the River Scheldt with a nuclear power plant's cooling towers as backdrop. Since 1965, the Port of Antwerp has wanted to swallow the village. Most residents took the money and left. A handful stayed. Street artists took over the empty houses. The result is an open-air museum of defiance and creativity.
GPS: 51.3103, 4.2650
Grotte La Merveilleuse beneath the streets of Dinant in the province of Namur, Belgium — discovered by chance in 1904 when railway workers dug a trench and opened a world of white stalactites, calcite cascades and underground chambers. 120 steps down. Three floors of dripping beauty. A constant 15°C while Dinant bakes above.
GPS: 50.2553, 4.9053
Seven giants made from recycled wood grow out of the forest near Boom as if they've always lived there. Danish artist Thomas Dambo has placed them one by one in De Schorre nature reserve — Nora, Arvid, Mikil, Hannes, and the troll couple Una and Jeuris. At the top of the great watchtower sits Kamiel, the leader, gazing out over 25 kilometres of flat Flemish landscape. Find them all. It takes three hours.
GPS: 51.0883, 4.3820