Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Belgium
Detourmap lists 173 places in Belgium, across 2 kinds of detour; archaeological & historic sites are the largest group (116). Best known: Signal de Botrange. 153 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 173
- Oldest here
- Aulne Abbey 657
- Little known
- 153 of 173
- City page
- 1
By region
2 first-level divisions of Belgium have enough places for a page of their own.
By city
One city in Belgium has enough places for a page of its own.
Archaeological & historic sites in Belgium 116
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2.MS Herald of Free Enterprise
Archaeological · Notable
Passenger and car ferry that capsized at Zeebrugge in March 1987
Nature & landscapes in Belgium 57
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2.De Zoom–Kalmthoutse Heide Cross-Border Park
Nature · 21st century · Notable
Transnational protected area in Belgium and the Netherlands
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Belgium?
Signal de Botrange. Mountain. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Belgium?
173: 116 archaeological & historic sites and 57 nature & landscapes. 153 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Belgium?
Aulne Abbey, dated to 657. 17 of the 173 places here carry a founding date at all, and 1 of those predate the year 1000.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.