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Machelen

The Top 20 Attractions around Machelen

There are plenty of places to see and visit around Machelen. Whether you love hiking or cycling, Machelen is a region where 20

hidden gems are waiting to be explored and visited. Check the top places to visit in the region and plan your next adventure today.

Last updated: November 12, 2025

Grand Place (Grote Markt) Brussels

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Here is the center of Brussels: the Grand Place ("Großer Platz", also "Grote Markt" in Flemish) captivates with its magnificent architecture. Because around the Grande Place are lined up splendidly …

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Bois de la Cambre

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This 123-hectare park, a veritable green lung in a highly urbanized area, serves as a sort of "outstretched hand" from the Sonian Forest to the city center. It is now …

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Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert

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Typical of Brussels is this beautiful gallery, many small and pretty shops, but mostly geared towards tourists, such as the inevitable Belgian chocolate.

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Cycling Highway Leuven-Mechelen Along the Leuven-Dijle Canal

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Always quiet and beautiful cycling next to the canal, you regularly pass beautiful old locks that still work.

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Manneken-Pis

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It's not uncommon for there to be a selfie row here. The fountain figure is the brand symbol of Brussels and accordingly almost every shop has a more or valuable tasteful version of it in the range.

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The Atomium

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Impossible to miss this emblematic monument which stands on your right: the Atomium. Erected on the occasion of the 1958 Universal Exhibition organized on the Heysel Plateau, the Atomium consists …

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Brussels Town Hall

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The first architect of the town hall was Jacob van Tienen. He was a pupil of Jan van Osy, who was the founder of the Brabant Gothic style. The construction …

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Leuven–Dijle Canal

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Beautifully maintained towpath that forms a car-free connection between Mechelen and Leuven.

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Ponds of Tervuren Park

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Cycling in this stately park is beautiful.

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Kapucijnendreef

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The Kapucijnendreef is a slightly boring, long, straight and flat, gravel/sand path (no mud), but it's the only (legit) way to get from Jezus-Eik to the Tervuren Park on a …

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Cinquantenaire Arch

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What majestic splendor - you can feel like royalty here when you enter the park through the triumphal arch with three passage arches - pardon: walk through. It was created …

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