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Katrien
June 23, 2024
Hiking
The Heidebos is a sturdy chunk of nature on the border of the Meetjesland and the Waasland. The nature reserve offers a surprising range of biotopes from pine forests, birch-oak forests, barren grasslands to - as the name suggests - areas of scrub heath, all interspersed with mighty avenues of beech and American oak.
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Nathalie
October 21, 2024
Hiking
The Heidebos is a solid piece of nature on the border of the Meetjesland and the Waasland. The nature reserve offers a surprising range of biotopes from pine forests, birch-oak forests, poor grasslands to - as the name suggests - areas with heather, all of this interspersed with mighty avenues of beech and American oak. However peaceful the forest now looks, the Eighty Years' War raged there in all its fury in the 16th century. Relics in the landscape such as the ramparts of the fort Francipanie and the Parmavaart are reminders of this turbulent period.
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