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この地域で知られている坂道です。難易度は主に後半にあります。中間地点、交通緩和策（プランター）の直前で、一息つくか、最後の「きつい」区間に挑むためにギアを上げるかできます。ラッシュアワーにはかなり混雑することがあります。 Asse（Petrus Ascanusstraat経由）またはAsbeek（Hoogpoort経由）から来て、Vrijthoutを下りたい場合は、路面の状態に十分注意してください。なぜなら、抜け道交通のために、路面は右側のいくつかの場所で状態が悪くなっているからです。上り坂では、この状況はそれほど悪くありません。

You will always come across many cyclists along the Scheldt.

On the edge of the Kravaalbos, WAF allowed the facade of Café Stinne to blend into a painted forest landscape. The exterior blends seamlessly with its surroundings, with a facade landscape that seems to have emerged straight from the animal forest. A charming integration of nature and hospitality. (Street art in Aalst)

A work by WAF (2023).

A beautiful village square where the Sandstone and the ornate Hop Monument take center stage. On the accompanying information panels, you can read about "Hop Cultivation of the Past" in a nutshell. It's always interesting to learn a little more about Meldert and the faluintjes (little hops). About the monument: it was designed by Jean Bernard Koeman. He created an inverted, abstract hop cone, in a metal structure 5.5 meters high and 6 meters in diameter. It will be planted with living hop cones, which grow up to 7 meters tall. The artwork features the text "On the circumference of the earth, beginning and end meet," a quote from the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, with Koeman replacing "a circle" with "the earth." Source: https://toerismeaffligem.be/

Meldert's village square is triangular and was formerly used as a "dries" (field). The houses surrounding the square formed a safe area for small livestock. Linguistically, a "dries" is a public village space covered in grass that was historically used as gathering places for the village's flocks of sheep, cattle, or pigs before they left for the heathland or meadows or after returning from there.

An ideal stop. Step inside the beautifully restored, historic station building and be transported back to a time when you could replenish your energy.

Inside, the church houses, among other things, a miraculous statue of the Virgin Mary from 1660 and an organ by Egidius Franciscus van Peteghem from 1791. As an important place of pilgrimage in the diocese of Ghent, the church attracted so many pilgrims around 1900 that extra trains were added. Since 1942, the building has been a protected monument, and it remains a spiritual and architectural beacon in the heart of Lebbeke to this day.