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Musée de la Fraise
This little museum-cum-info-office in the Wépion area sells strawberry beer, strawberry liqueurs and strawberry jams. In summer it runs guided visits to a little strawberry plantation. The museum is 7km south of central Namur.
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Spa Monopole
Selling the waters of Spa remains big buiness, with millons of bottles filled annually at this plant behind the train station. A visit is self-guided and includes a view over the factory’s production floor. Book your time slot online.
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Jardins d’Annevoie
Laid out in 1758 around the manor house of Charles-Alexis de Montpellier, these gardens are a delightful mix of French, Italian and English styles, incorporating plenty of fountains and tree-lined waterways. Annevoie is 12km north of Dinant.
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Musée
Thousands of Luxembourgers were deported during Germany’s WWII occupation of Luxembourg, and 1200 of the country’s 3700 Jewish population perished. The train station where their harrowing journey began is now a small museum. Take bus 18.
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Musée de la Bataille de Ligny
At Ligny, against Blüchers Prussians, Napoleon won his last victory. Battle fans can visit the memorabilia-filled Musée de la Bataille, with two floors of material relating to that and Wellingtons nearby confrontation at Quatre Bras.
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Minnewater
Known in English as the Lake of Love, the Minnewater harks back to Bruges medieval heyday. This waterway was a dock from where ships as far afield as Russia came laden with cargoes of wool, wine, spices and silks and left loaded with Flemish cloth.
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Bunker dHitler 1940
For 22 days in 1940 the Nazi leader commanded Western Front operations from deep forest here, 8km south of Couvin. The very modest concrete bunker can be visited, along with two pavilions that house some explanatory displays, but youll need wheels.
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Gallo
In the town centre, the inventive modern Gallo-Roman Museum uses audio, video and mannequins as well as thousands of original artefacts and archaeological discoveries to exemplify the way of life at the time of Tongerens Roman heyday and thereafter.
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Pont de Claies
Installed every summer is Belgiums last seasonal footbridge. Originally designed to let tobacco harvesters reach their crops, its made by placing hazel-weave onto log stilts embedded in the river. The bridge site is 500m down an unpaved track from the church.
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Musée de Folklore
This is a loveable and sizeable warren of fascinating city-relevant relics and ethnographic artefacts. Its all in French, but many of the cameo scenes are self-explanatory, and across the bridge-room theres a great model of Tournai in its 18th-century heyday.
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Citadelle de Dinant
Though sparse on sights, this vast, unadorned 1818 citadel looms menacingly on its clifftop, offering toe-curling views high over town. The entrance price includes the cablecar to the top, though you can take on the 408 steps if you need to work off lunch.
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Villa Romaine
Excavated during the creation of the reservoir lake, today a popular boating and recreation area, this Roman villa has sparse, over-neatened remains but was obviously an impressively large, hacienda-style set-up. Its about 1km from town in pleasant parkland.
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M Van Museum
Leuvens state-of-the-art gallery houses a priceless collection of mostly 15th- to 18th-century religious art along with contemporary works, and hosts high-profile exhibitions. An M ticket allows free entrance to the schatkamer (treasury) of St-Pieterskerk.
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Mini Europe
Want to fool your friends that you saw all of Europe? Easy. Just photograph the dozens of 1:25-scale models of the continent’s top monuments at Mini Europe. On certain midsummer Saturday nights it stays open till midnight, with firework displays at 10.30pm.
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Musée François Duesberg
If you’re a fan of exotic gilded clocks, dazzling porcelain and silver coffeepots from 1775 to 1825, check out the rich collection at this sumptuous three-room museum. It’s in the former national-bank building between Collégiale Ste-Waudru and the train station.
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Trésor de Sainte Waudru
The small church treasury displays Ste-Waudru’s shrouds and, in a reliquary, a sword-slashed skull – supposedly of sainted Merovingian king Dagobert II. Some conspiracy theorists consider that Dagobert’s murder in 675 was an attempt to put an end to the ‘Jesus bloodline’.
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Last Post
At 8pm daily, traffic through the Menin Gate is halted while buglers sound the Last Post in remembrance of the WWI dead, a moving tradition started in 1928. Every evening the scene is different, possibly accompanied by pipers, troops of cadets or maybe a military band.
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Collégiale Notre
A bit drab from outside, this Gothic church is rather lovely once you enter, with floor-to-ceiling (almost) stained glass behind the altar and a rose window. The treasury museum is focused on four fabulous Mosane chest-reliquaries dating from the 12th and 13th centuries.
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Hôtel Hannon & Contretype Photographic Gallery
If you’re into photographic art you might want to catch an exhibition here. Even if you’re not, it’s worth stopping by for the splendid art-nouveau building in which it’s housed, Hôtel Hannon, designed in 1902 by Jules Brunfaut and graced by stone friezes and stained glass.
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Tongeren Begijnhof
Three blocks south and west of the basilica is a small web of pretty backstreets that once formed Tongeren’s begijnhof . Here the Beghina Museum serves béguine beer (€2) and a small, picturesque canal leads towards the chunky 1379 Moerenpoort, a medieval city-gate tower.
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