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Vilvoorde is a Belgian city and municipality in Flemish Brabant, with a history dating back to the Roman era. It has a diverse population, a neo-classical city hall, and a former industrial port.
- Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Van Goede Hoop
- Domein Drie Fonteinen
- Tuchthuis
- Grote Markt
- Stadhuis
- Hanssenspark
- Grimbergen Abbey
- Grimbergen Castle
- Ferme Nos Pilifs
- Waterbus
As long ago as the 10th century there was a Romanesque village church at this location. By the 14th century Vilvoorde was at the height of its political and economic power through the textile trade, so a new, appropriately grand Gothic church was constructed. This came together over more than 100 years, and was then given Baroque fittings in the 17...
This genteel estate, one of the oldest landscape parks in the country, is named for a fountain by a lock of the old Brussels-Rupelmonde canal where skippers would stop for water. The land was bought by Brussels banker Jean Joseph Walckiers in the 1760s, and he soon laid out an English landscape garden, something that hadn’t been seen on these shore...
The forbidding Neoclassical prison just in from the Brussels-Scheldt canal was built in 1779 over a ducal castle that had stood since the 14th century. The castle’s material was reused in the prison’s foundations. The Tuchthuis has a lot of tales to tell, designed as an Enlightenment-era model prison, but criticised because of an unhealthy location...
If you haven’t been to the centre of Vilvoorde in the last few years you may wonder if you’ve ended up in a different city. The main market square has been transformed with an 18-month project, completed in April 2018. The problem was that Grote Markt had become one giant car park, with loose cobblestones that were a hazard for pedestrians. The new...
Hard to ignore on the south side of the Grote Markt is the city hall, in a ceremonious Neoclassical style from the early-1870s. With a facade carved with window pediments, pilasters, niches and corbels, the Stadhuis contrasts with the square’s mostly discreet, low-rise architecture. If you can go in, there’s a lot of art inside, including a piece b...
West of the railway station, Hanssenspark is named for Edmond Hanssens, mayor of Vilvoorde when the park opened at the end of the 19th century. It was planted in an English landscape style around a one-acre pond on a section of the moat for the city’s ramparts. Vilvoorde’s horticultural school (Tuinbouwschool) still open to this day, supplied the p...
The oldest inhabited Norbertine abbey in Belgium is a little way across the canal in Grimbergen. This was first founded in the 1120s and has been razed and rebuilt a few times, in the 12th, 16th and then the early-19th century after being dissolved for a few decades during the French Revolution. It’s fitting then that the abbey’s symbol should be a...
For centuries the lords and princes of Grimbergen resided at this now ruined castle, still found within a moat on its wooded estate, the Prinsenbos. The story of Grimbergen Castle began around the beginning of the 13th century, and the vestiges that you see today are from the early-15th century on the foundations of that earlier building. When it b...
Ten minutes from Vilvoorde is a farm run by a non-profit organisation established to give employment opportunities to disabled people. Ferme Nos Pilifs is a super visit for families, with paths through idyllic woodland, meadows and vegetable gardens, and past paddocks for goats, poultry, donkeys and cows. There’s also a playground for littler visit...
If you need a scenic, punctual and congestion-proof way to get to the centre of Brussels the Waterbus is what you’re looking for. This service on the Brussels-Scheldt Canal was launched in 2013 and runs between Vilvoorde centrum and Place Sainctelette in the capital, making several stops and taking 55 minutes in all. There are services from the beg...
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Find out the best attractions, tours and activities in Vilvoorde, a town in Flemish Brabant Province, Belgium. Explore parks, museums, historic sites and more with Tripadvisor reviews and photos.
Feb 2, 2022 · Explore the urban and watery landscape of Vilvoorde, a Flemish town with a rich history and a multicultural population. See bridges, factories, street art, parks and more on this 11 km walk.
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