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Niel

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Niel

One place 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. 01
    St. Bernard's Abbey

    St. Bernard's Abbey, Hemiksem, or abbatiae S. Bernardi ad Scaldim, ordinis Cisterciensis, in dioecesi Antverpiensi also known as St.

    2.3 km · monastery · Wikipedia

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.

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Getting to Niel

Airports
Brussels (BRU), 26 km · Brussels South Charleroi (CRL), 73 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 82 km
  • Charleroi → Niel
    78 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · €10–13
  • Oostende → Niel
    99 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · €12–17
  • Eindhoven → Niel
    88 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · €10–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Niel

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 Niel. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get in}} {{listing | name | url | address | long | phone | fax | price Located in Oostende, mostly served by charter and freight flights.
  • Get inCalais and Dunkirk (France), a short drive from western Flanders, receive dozens of ferries a day from Dover in England.
  • Get inThe overnight ferries from Hull to Zeebrugge were axed in 2021, though ferries still run from Hull to Rotterdam (Netherlands), which has good road and rail access to northern Flanders.

From Wikivoyage: Flanders, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    245 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    398 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    619 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    628 km
  5. 05
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    777 km

If you know how people move in Niel – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Niel

Niel is 13 km from Antwerp, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Boommunicipality in Antwerp, Belgium3.5 km
  • Schellemunicipality in Antwerp, Belgium2.5 km
  • Hemiksemmunicipality in Antwerp, Belgium3.6 km
  • Rupelmondetown in Kruibeke, Belgium3.5 km