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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316 km from Oudenaarde to Oudenaarde, about 5 h 19 of riding. On the way it passes Béguinage de Sint-Amandsberg / Gent, \Halletoren\ ou Belfort, Stadhuis met Belfort and back through Stadhuis met Belfort. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Oudenaarde's town hall looks like something carved from lace. Built in the early sixteenth century in the late Gothic style, it has a facade covered with pointed arches, niches and statues, and a slender belfry topped with a gilded crown on which stands a small knight known locally as Hanske de Krijger, Little John the Warrior. The building is one of the finest of its kind in Flanders, and it is listed by UNESCO among the belfries of Belgium and France. Inside, there are displays of the tapestries for which Oudenaarde was famous across Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, especially its verdures, woven scenes of forests and greenery.
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Stadhuis met Belfort is where the day begins. Next is Béguinage de Sint-Amandsberg / Gent.
The Great Béguinage of Sint-Amandsberg looks like a small walled town of its own, tucked into a residential suburb just east of the centre of Ghent. When the city expanded in the 1870s and the old béguinage of St Elisabeth was in the way, the beguines, lay religious women who lived in community without taking permanent vows, moved here to a new complex of neo-Gothic houses, convents and a church, all laid out around streets, squares and gardens behind a wall and gate. The move was funded by the Duke of Arenberg, and the whole place was finished in just a few years. It is one of the thirteen Flemish Béguinages on the UNESCO list since 1998, and although the beguines are gone, the houses are still lived in, and the atmosphere is calm and quiet.
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Béguinage de Sint-Amandsberg / Gent comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is \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.
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about 69 km into the recorded legs you reach \Halletoren\ ou Belfort. Next is Stadhuis met Belfort.
Eeklo is the capital of the Meetjesland, the flat, green region of East Flanders between Ghent and Bruges, close to the Dutch border, and its town hall with a belfry, the Stadhuis met Belfort, stands on the market square as the symbol of the town. It is one of the belfries of Belgium and France listed by UNESCO, a group of civic towers that embodied the freedom and power of the medieval towns of Flanders. Eeklo's belfry is modest compared with those of Bruges and Ghent, but it has its own charm, rising above a town that most visitors pass through without stopping.
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Stadhuis met Belfort, about halfway. Next is Stadhuis met Belfort.
Dendermonde sits where the Dender gives up and pours itself into the Scheldt, and the old town hall on the Grote Markt is the thing you aim for when you roll in. Its belfry is one of the Flemish and Walloon towers grouped together by UNESCO as the Belfries of Belgium and France, and the reason those towers matter is simple: in the medieval Low Countries a belfry was the civic answer to the church spire. It held the town charters, the bell that called the citizens, and the watchman who looked out for fire and for armies. Dendermonde needed the watchman more than most, because a town at a river junction is a town everybody wants, and it was besieged, burned and rebuilt more than once, most brutally in 1914 when German troops set much of it alight.
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Stadhuis met Belfort sits at 166 km, about halfway. Next is back through Stadhuis met Belfort.
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back through Stadhuis met Belfort comes up about 214 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through \Halletoren\ ou Belfort.
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about 244 km into the recorded legs you reach back through \Halletoren\ ou Belfort. Next is back through Béguinage de Sint-Amandsberg / Gent.
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back through Béguinage de Sint-Amandsberg / Gent, late in the day.
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The route ends here after 316 km.
Stadhuis met Belfort → Béguinage de Sint-Amandsberg / Gent is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Béguinage de Sint-Amandsberg / Gent → \Halletoren\ ou Belfort is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
\Halletoren\ ou Belfort → Stadhuis met Belfort is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Stadhuis met Belfort → Stadhuis met Belfort is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Stadhuis met Belfort → back through \Halletoren\ ou Belfort is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through \Halletoren\ ou Belfort → back through Béguinage de Sint-Amandsberg / Gent is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Béguinage de Sint-Amandsberg / Gent → Stadhuis met Belfort is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.