Why this ride
A 100 km round trip from Roeselare - roughly 1 h 56 in the saddle. It goes by way of \Halletoren\ ou Belfort, Béguinage de Bruges and back through \Halletoren\ ou Belfort. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Stadhuis and Béguinage de Bruges
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 100 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 56
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Stadhuis
Bruges is half an hour north, and the two make a good pairing, but Roeselare deserves to be taken on its own terms: a working town of some fifty-six thousand people, built on textiles, food processing and trade, with a town hall on its market square that anchors the centre. Like most Flemish towns, Roeselare grew around a market and a civic building that announced the burghers' independence from lords and bishops, and the tradition of the town hall as the symbol of local self-government is still very much alive here.
Read the complete Stadhuis write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Stadhuis is where the day begins. Next is \Halletoren\ ou Belfort.
2. \Halletoren\ ou Belfort
Tielt is a working town in the heart of West Flanders, a place of farmers' markets, textile history and flat roads, and its belfry rises above the market square like a stubborn finger pointing at the clouds. The Halletoren, the hall tower, stands on top of the old cloth hall, the building where merchants once inspected and traded woollen cloth, the source of Flanders' wealth in the Middle Ages. The belfry is one of the group of Belgian and French belfries that UNESCO listed together, symbols of the civic freedom that the cities of Flanders won from their lords, where the town charters were kept and the bells rang to call citizens to arms or to work.
Read the complete \Halletoren\ ou Belfort write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
\Halletoren\ ou Belfort comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. Next is Béguinage de Bruges.
3. Béguinage de Bruges
The Princely Beguinage of Bruges, Ten Wijngaerde, is the sort of place that makes people lower their voices without being asked. White-washed houses surround a grassy courtyard planted with old trees, and in spring thousands of daffodils bloom under them. A beguinage was a community where lay women lived a religious life without taking full vows, and Flanders had many of them from the thirteenth century. This one was founded around 1245 under Margaret of Constantinople, Countess of Flanders, and the UNESCO listing of Flemish Beguinages covers it, along with Diest and others.
Read the complete Béguinage de Bruges write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 49 km into the recorded legs you reach Béguinage de Bruges. Next is back through \Halletoren\ ou Belfort.
4. back through \Halletoren\ ou Belfort
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete \Halletoren\ ou Belfort write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through \Halletoren\ ou Belfort, late in the day. Next is Stadhuis.
5. Stadhuis
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stadhuis write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Stadhuis. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Stadhuis to \Halletoren\ ou Belfort
Stadhuis → \Halletoren\ ou Belfort is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
\Halletoren\ ou Belfort to Béguinage de Bruges
\Halletoren\ ou Belfort → Béguinage de Bruges is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Béguinage de Bruges to back through \Halletoren\ ou Belfort
Béguinage de Bruges → back through \Halletoren\ ou Belfort is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through \Halletoren\ ou Belfort to Stadhuis
back through \Halletoren\ ou Belfort → Stadhuis is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.