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Around Bruges

So many interesting places to explore within a radius of maximum one hour from Bruges!

Very few visitors do know that Bruges is really the ideal place from where you can explore so many interesting places, all within easy reach! 

Brugse Ommeland

The area around Bruges - the so-called 'Brugse Ommeland' - is a region best described in glowing superlatives. Rows of age-old, bent over poplars cut across 'le plat pays' (the flat country): mysterious woods jealously guard their secrets and delightful historic towns built on a human scale succeed in charming all who pass through them. The area surrounding Bruges is ideally suited to discovery by bike, on horse-back or on foot. Bruges' front garden surprises and astonishes, with its castles and abbeys, its protected village-scapes and monuments, its historic farms and mills, its green areas and nature reserves, including:

  • the historic village of Damme
  • the rural community village of Lissewege
  • the nature centre and the public observatory of Beisbroek city park
  • the remarkable 14th-century water-castle of Tillegembos
  • the former castle of the Counts of Flanders - Sint-Trudo Abbey
  • the large forest with several footpaths, surrounding the Abbey of Zevenkerken
  • Fort van Beieren
  • Tudor city park with its majestic castle in Tudor style
  • Children's farm 'De Zeven Torentjes' 
  • the bird's observatory and national park - 't Zwin (near the city of Knokke) 

For more details - contact the Bruges Tourist Office

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Flanders Fields - WW1 battlefield sites ... only 45 minutes away from Bruges 

Visit the major World War I battlefield sites, including

Visit Flanders' Art Cities

Flanders has most probably the highest density of medieval art cities in Europe, within a radius of maximum one hour drive from Bruges. Following art cities are certainly worth a visit:

  • Ghent          -   50 km from Bruges - 1/2 hour drive or via direct intercity train
  • Antwerp     - 100 km from Bruges - 1 hour drive or via direct intercity train
  • Mechelen   - 125 km from Bruges - 90 minutes drive
  • Leuven        - 130 km from Bruges - 90 minutes drive or via direct intercity train

Brussels ... Capital of Europe - just one hour away from Bruges

You also would like to visit Brussels, while staying in Bruges? No problem, it's only one hour's drive or take an intercity train to Brussels (operational every hour). If you need more detailed information, visit our Brussels page.

The Belgian Coast ... only 15 minutes away

Bruges is situated very near the Belgian Coast. The perfect combination of a citybreak and a relaxing daytrip to one of the exciting beach resorts along the Belgian Coast, such as:

  • Knokke-Le-Zoute
  • Ostend
  • De Haan
  • Blankenberge
  • .../

Some interesting links about Belgium ...