CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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A 188 km round trip from Tienen - roughly 2 h 58 in the saddle. It goes by way of Sint-Pieterskerk / Belfort, Stoclet House, Belfort en Schepenhuis / Beffroi et maison and back through Stoclet House. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Tienen means sugar to most Belgians. The town in the east of Flemish Brabant has been the home of Belgium's largest sugar refinery since the nineteenth century, and the smell of sugar beet being processed hangs over the town in autumn during the campaign, when trucks loaded with beets roll in from the surrounding fields. The Sint-Germanuskerk, the church of Saint Germanus, with its massive tower serving as the town's belfry, stands near the huge Grote Markt, one of the largest market squares in Belgium, and it is part of the UNESCO listing of the belfries of Belgium and France. The tower, a mix of Romanesque and Gothic, has a carillon whose bells ring out over the town.
Read the complete Sint-Germanuskerk met Stadstoren write-up.
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Sint-Germanuskerk met Stadstoren is where the day begins. Next is Sint-Pieterskerk / Belfort.
Leuven is a university town through and through. Its university, founded in 1425, is the oldest in the Low Countries, and its students fill the streets, cafés and squares, giving the city a youthful energy. At its heart is the Grote Markt, dominated by two buildings: the Town Hall, a Gothic masterpiece covered in hundreds of statues, and opposite it, the Church of St Peter, a great Gothic church whose tower was never finished but which is part of the UNESCO-listed Belfries of Belgium and France.
Read the complete Sint-Pieterskerk / Belfort write-up.
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Sint-Pieterskerk / Belfort comes up about 33 km into the recorded legs. Next is Stoclet House.
From the street, the Stoclet House on the Avenue de Tervueren looks like a mansion carved out of a block of white marble and trimmed with bronze, with a stepped tower crowned by four male figures and a dome of copper laurel. It was built between 1905 and 1911 for the Belgian banker and art collector Adolphe Stoclet and designed by the Viennese architect Josef Hoffmann, with the artists and craftsmen of the Wiener Werkstätte creating everything from the furniture to the cutlery. Gustav Klimt designed the mosaic frieze in the dining room, one of his most famous works. The house was listed by UNESCO in 2009 as one of the most complete and refined works of the Vienna Secession.
Read the complete Stoclet House write-up.
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about 61 km into the recorded legs you reach Stoclet House. Next is Belfort en Schepenhuis / Beffroi et maison.
Aalst's Schepenhuis, the old aldermen's house on the Grote Markt, is reckoned to be the oldest surviving town hall in the Low Countries, its oldest parts going back to the thirteenth century, and its belfry, added later, carries the bells that once regulated the town's life. Together they are part of the UNESCO listing of the Belfries of Belgium and France. In front of them stands a statue of Dirk Martens, who set up one of the first printing presses in the Southern Netherlands here in the 1470s and later printed works by Erasmus and Thomas More.
Read the complete Belfort en Schepenhuis / Beffroi et maison write-up.
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Belfort en Schepenhuis / Beffroi et maison, about halfway. Next is back through Stoclet House.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stoclet House write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Stoclet House sits at 122 km, about halfway. Next is back through Sint-Pieterskerk / Belfort.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sint-Pieterskerk / Belfort write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Sint-Pieterskerk / Belfort comes up about 154 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sint-Germanuskerk met Stadstoren.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sint-Germanuskerk met Stadstoren write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Sint-Germanuskerk met Stadstoren closes the day.
Sint-Germanuskerk met Stadstoren → Sint-Pieterskerk / Belfort is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sint-Pieterskerk / Belfort → Stoclet House is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Stoclet House → Belfort en Schepenhuis / Beffroi et maison is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Belfort en Schepenhuis / Beffroi et maison → back through Stoclet House is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Stoclet House → back through Sint-Pieterskerk / Belfort is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sint-Pieterskerk / Belfort → Sint-Germanuskerk met Stadstoren is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.