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The Top 20 Natural Monuments around Tongeren

Tongeren’s landscape is a beautiful place to explore — something that you can best experience by visiting one of our 20

beautiful natural monuments around Tongeren. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!

Last updated: November 14, 2025

Mechelse Heide — Lakes and Sand Dunes

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Beautiful surroundings. Especially come in August when the heather is in bloom. Wonderful!

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Cycling Across the Floating Bridge – Nationaal Park Hoge Kempen

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A great example of cycling tourism by Visit Limburg, a unique experience that will leave you speechless.

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View of the Grote Plas from Terhills

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I don't know whether this is the most beautiful view in Flanders, but it is certainly one of the most beautiful, on top of a pile of rubble from an …

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Sand Dune Pond at Hoge Kempen National Park

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A piece of sand dunes, not far from the entrance of the area. In the middle at the front is a pond (with frogs in the right season and a …

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Eisden Coal Mine Headframes (Terhills)

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Anyone looking for Eisden's mining past will discover traces that are as diverse as they are striking. They stood like exclamation marks in a history that threatened to be erased …

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Broekbos Nature Reserve

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In this forest reserve, nature is allowed to take its course: trees are allowed to grow old here undisturbed and will eventually die standing. Before they die, they produce extra …

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Floating Chapel of Helshoven

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At the highest point of Helshoven, "De Galg," is this floating, or floating, cherrywood chapel. It's a work of art by Frits Jeuris, inspired by the Helshoven Chapel.

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Trail through Veursbos Valley

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The Veursbos is a forest area in the municipality of Voeren in the Belgian province of Limburg. The forest is partly a slope forest. It is located east of Veurs, …

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View of the Kikbeekbron Valley

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There is a little air of Sweden here, but you are in Belgium! The Kikbeekbron Valley is a nature reserve located on a former sand and gravel quarry.

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Floating Chapel (Helsh(ea)ven)

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A work of art by Frits Jeuris inspired by the chapel of Helshoven, located about a kilometer from this location.

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The Top 20 Natural Monuments around Tongeren

Mechelse Heide — Lakes and Sand Dunes

Cycling Across the Floating Bridge – Nationaal Park Hoge Kempen

View of the Grote Plas from Terhills

Sand Dune Pond at Hoge Kempen National Park

Eisden Coal Mine Headframes (Terhills)

Broekbos Nature Reserve

Floating Chapel of Helshoven

Trail through Veursbos Valley

View of the Kikbeekbron Valley

Floating Chapel (Helsh(ea)ven)

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