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These are the most beautiful cycling routes and paths in Belgium

Where can you find the most beautiful cycle routes in Belgium? And which cycle paths are the most impressive? You can read it all in ETIKL Magazine.

Are you a real cycling enthusiast or do you like to make it your business to prepare a cycling trip? Especially for you, we list the most beautiful cycling routes and paths in Belgium here.

1. Cycling through Water, Limburg

Despite its short distance of 200 metres, this iconic cycle path attracts many tourists to the beautiful historical park of Bokrijk. The path divides a large pond in two and takes you completely dry to the other side. Cycling through the Water is thus the more creative and aesthetic version of a bicycle or pedestrian bridge. If you stand in the middle of the cycle path, you look out over the water at eye level. A wonderful place to unwind.

Starting location: Cycling junction Limburg 91
Length: 200 metres
GPS coordinates: 50.963069, 5.392711
Parking: Bokrijklaan 1, 3600 Genk
Discover the route here.

2. Architecture route, Antwerp

Whether you are a tourist or a born Antwerper: the architecture route is one of the most educational cycling routes on this list and will undoubtedly take you past places you did not know about. From iconic sites such as Het Steen, the MAS, Central Station and Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal to the unknown Kerkschip and Houtdok: you cycle past impressive works of art, historical gems and impressive city projects such as Zaha Hadid's Havenhuis.

Starting point: Grote Markt, Antwerp
Length: 30 kilometres, can be shortened to 16 kilometres
Navigation: Hexagonal 'Architecture Route' signs
View the complete route here.

3. Napoleon route, Brabant-Wallon

Where can you find the most beautiful cycle routes in Belgium? And which cycle paths are the most impressive? You can read it all in ETIKL Magazine. We'll give you a hint: the Napoleon route that, as you can see, crosses Waterloo.

History buffs, unite, because the Napoleon route takes you back more than 200 years. With a good 90 kilometres you will cycle past no less than 150 monuments that tell the story of Napoleon and his soldiers on their way to the battle of Waterloo. You cycle along Hestrud, the place where Napoleon entered Belgian territory, and Thuin, the historical centre where the confrontation between the French and Prussian troops took place.

Start: Brabant-Wallon 92 junction, near Waterloo station
Length: 90 kilometres
Navigation: KP 92-91-90-26-11-86-88-47-84-83-76-68-71-74-75-67-92
View and download the route here.

4. Cycling through the trees, Limburg

Since June 2019, the cycle path 'Cycling through the Trees' takes you up to ten metres high between the treetops. Via a double circle you experience nature in a surprising way. The cycle path has already won international awards.

Start: junction 272, in the Pijnven nature reserve
Length: 700 metres
GPS coordinates: 51.1616187, 5.3105925
Parking: Kiefhoekstraat 16, Hechtel-Eksel
Discover the route here.

5. Along the railway from Aachen to Luxembourg

Where can you find the most beautiful cycle routes in Belgium? And which cycle paths are the most impressive? You can read it all in ETIKL Magazine. A tip: one of them ends here, in beautiful German Aachen.

If you choose to follow the "Vennbahn" cycle route, it will seem as if you are cycling back in time. In short, the route is a piece of history. Abandoned carriages and signal boxes, the charming exhibitions in the former stations and the nature park "High Venn-Eifel" ensure that a pit stop, anywhere on the route, becomes an experience in itself. In other words, one of the most beautiful cycle routes in Belgium.

Start: Aachen
Length: 125 kilometres
Stages: 6
Find out all about the route here.

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