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Wervik

Wervik is a city and municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders.

Wervik
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The place

Wervik is a city and municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Wervik and the town of Geluwe. On January 1, 2014, Wervik had a total population of 18,435. The total area is 43.61 km2 which gives a population density of 423 inhabitants per km2. The area is famous for its excellent tobacco and has a tobacco museum. The town is separated from its French counterpart Wervicq-Sud by the river Lys.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wervik

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
    Town hall of Comines

    The Hôtel de Ville is a municipal building in Comines, Nord, in northern France, standing on the Grand Place. It was designated a monument historique by the French government in 2001.

    2.8 km · town hall in France · Wikipedia

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Getting to Wervik

Airports
Lille (LIL), 25 km · Ostend-Bruges (OST), 48 km · Brussels (BRU), 103 km
  • Oostende → Wervik
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · €7–10
  • Zaventem → Wervik
    101 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · €12–17
  • Charleroi → Wervik
    107 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · €14–20
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No local-transport research exists yet for Wervik

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

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    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

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