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Municipality in Flemish Community, Belgium · Flanders

# Bredene

Bredene is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders.

![Bredene](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Bredene_-_Skyline_1.jpg)

Bredene · Wikimedia Commons

The place

Bredene is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality only comprises the town of Bredene proper. On 1 January 2006, Bredene had a total population of 15,118. The total area is 13.08 km2 which gives a population density of 1156 inhabitants per km2.

Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bredene), CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around Bredene

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. Sint-Petrus-en-Pauluskerk Sint-Petrus-en-Pauluskerk is a Roman Catholic church in Ostend, Belgium. The neo-Gothic building was constructed on the ashes of a previous church that occupied the site. 3.2 km · church building in Ostend, Belgium · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint-Petrus-en-Pauluskerk)
2. Fort Napoleon Fort Napoleon in Ostend is a polygonal fort built in the Napoleonic era. It has recently been restored and is open to the public. 2.3 km · military museum in West Flanders, Belgium · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Napoleon,_Ostend)
3. Lange Nelle Lighthouse Lange Nelle Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Ostend, Flanders, Belgium. It is located at the Belgian coastline of the North Sea. 2.5 km · lighthouse in Oostende, Belgium · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lange_Nelle_Lighthouse)
4. Mu.ZEE - Kunstmuseum aan Zee The Mu.ZEE is a museum in Ostend, Belgium, specializing in Belgian art from 1830 onwards. It was created in 2008 by the fusion of the former Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst and the Museum voor Schone Kunsten Oostende, both located in Ostend. 3.7 km · art museum in Ostend, Belgium · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu.ZEE)

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

## Getting to Bredene

**Airports:** Ostend-Bruges (OST), 7 km · Lille (LIL), 75 km · Brussels (BRU), 112 km\
**Stations:** Second Ostend Raid, 3.1 km · Port of Ostend, 2.6 km · Oostende railway station, 2.9 km\

- Zaventem → Bredene 112 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · €12–17 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/zaventem-to-bredene) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Zaventem&to=Bredene)
- Charleroi → Bredene 138 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · €17–23 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/charleroi-to-bredene) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Charleroi&to=Bredene)
- Lesquin → Bredene 73 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · €10–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/lesquin-to-bredene) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Lesquin&to=Bredene)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Bredene)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

## No local-transport research exists yet for Bredene

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bredene. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done

1. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 265 km
2. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 305 km
3. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 532 km
4. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 678 km
5. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 722 km

If you know how people move in Bredene – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cbredene&title=Bredene&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fbredene), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Bredene

- [Ostend](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ostend) coastal city in West Flanders, Belgium 3.4 km

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