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Historic towns in the Belgian countryside

Cycling holiday Flanders

Name: Happy Cycling Holidays
Address: Hengelosestraat 300a, Enschede, Nederland, 7521 AN
Telephone: +31 (0)53 430 34 35
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From Flemish Roeselare, you will discover an area of small forests, legion of brook valleys and an abundance of history. The IJzer river basin and the vast polder landscape behind the coastal dunes take you to Beauvoorde, Veurne, Diksmuide and Ypres. The healthy air makes you reach for a tasty farmer's sandwich with regional cheese and a pint of beer! » read more about Cycling holiday Flanders

Historic towns and Great War landscape
St Sixtus Abbey (Trappist beer)
Last Post in Ypres

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8 days
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from 765 p.p.
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from 765 p.p.
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The land of the happy

After the highlights of your start in Roeselare, you might want to tone it down a notch to truly experience the charm of Flanders. While cycling you'll think back on the late Gothic St. Michael's Church, the 18th-century town hall and the 16th-century monastery with its beautiful stepped gable. Roeselare immediately sets the tone of a place where people simply feel happy. That is, nowadays. In this area there's no escaping the legacy of The Great War.

Speechless

Vadslo, Diksmuide and certainly Ypres remind us of four intense years of war. Since then, almost a hundred years have passed, yet the remains are still obvious. The museum in Flanders Fields tells about soldiers, trenches, mud, noise, fear, sadness and senseless violence. Partly for this reason, the 'Last Post' is still heard every evening underneath the Mening Gate in Ypres. It will leave you speechless. But the same can be said about the beers that the Trappists make in St. Sixtus Abbey. This, together with the trips to the Panne, the beautiful dune areas, the polder area filled with birds and the Kemmelberg will lift your spirits again. Good thing, too.

The Menin Gate Ypres

Flemish metropolis

As the centre of the cloth industry, Ypres once was the capital of West Flanders. In the 13th century, it used to be so important, it could compete with cities such as Rome, Athens, Brussels and Amsterdam. The grandeur of this once Flemish metropolis can still be recognized by the Grote Markt, the Belfry, the 14th-century Gothic Notre-Dame, the 17th-century Minderbroederklooster, the 18th-century classicist town hall and the impressive fortifications around the city.

Romantical Rumbeke

A bit of a romantic? Then you'll definitely be getting off your bike in Rumbeke, close to Roeselare. A dream of a castle awaits you there. The building was built in Renaissance style in the early 1500s by father Jacob and son Thomas de Thiennes, lords of Thiennes and van Caëstre (Kaaster). That's why Rumbeke Castle is also called Kaaster Castle. The outside of the castle shows an onion-shaped tower. There are masonry marks on the walls that also refer to the Golden Fleece. Along the walls, you'll find the second oldest building: the pigeon tower, built in 1609. Back then, young pigeons were a delicacy that added variety to the menu, and the manure was used again in the vegetable garden. Unfortunately, you can only visit the castle in groups.

Rumbeke Castle Rumbeke

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