Temse
Temse is a municipality in East Flanders, Belgium.
Temse is a municipality in East Flanders, Belgium.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Temse
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.
- 01Bornem Castle
Bornem Castle, also known as the Marnix de Sainte-Aldegonde Castle, is a country house, formerly a castle, located in Bornem, province of Antwerp, Belgium. Bornem Castle is situated at an elevation of 1 meters.
1.9 km · Water castle, located in Bornem · Wikipedia - 02Bornem Abbey
Bornem Abbey is the only Cistercian abbey of Common Observance in the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels. The current abbey is the successor of the former St.
3.1 km · monastery building in Bornem, Belgium · Wikipedia - 03Temse Bridge
The Temse Bridge crosses the Scheldt at Temse, a small town approximately 25 km southwest of Antwerp. Between 1955 and 2009 the 365 m bridge was the longest in Belgium.
1.4 km · bridge in Belgium · Wikipedia - 04Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk
The Church of Our Lady is a church in the Belgian municipality of Temse. It is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and its foundation, which is presumed to date to 770, is attributed to Amalberga of Temse.
1.3 km · church in Temse, Belgium · Wikipedia
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Getting to Temse
- Airports
- Brussels (BRU), 31 km · Brussels South Charleroi (CRL), 75 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 90 km
- Charleroi → Temse81 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · €10–14
- Oostende → Temse90 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · €10–14
- Eindhoven → Temse95 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · €11–16
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Temse
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 Temse. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextOn sunny summer afternoons, it has become a bit of an alternative day trip destination, with people from the cities coming to see the river panorama and soaking up the surrealistic, slightly eerie atmosphere.
- Go nextIn the other direction, to the south of Sint-Niklaas, there are nice and scenic bike paths along the river Scheldt connecting villages like Rupelmonde, Temse (with its massive iron bridge crossing the river, the longest river bridge in Belgium), Bornem, Hamme (cross by free ferry), Mariekerke, Sint-Amands, etc.
- Go nextAt several places, it is possible to cross the river by free ferry with your bicycle.
From Wikivoyage: Sint-Niklaas, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Temse – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Temse
Temse is 18 km from Antwerp, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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