Wilrijk
Wilrijk is a district of the municipality and city of Antwerp in the Belgian province of Antwerp.
Wilrijk is a district of the municipality and city of Antwerp in the Belgian province of Antwerp. Wilrijk had been a separate municipality before January 1, 1983; the enlarged municipality of Antwerp was decentralized in 2000 and Wilrijk became one of the city's nine districts.
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Worth seeing in and around Wilrijk
8 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.
- 01Olympisch Stadion Antwerp
The Olympisch Stadion or Kielstadion was built as the main stadium for the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. For those games, it hosted the athletics, equestrian, field hockey, football, gymnastics, modern pentathlon, rugby union, tug of war, weightlifting and korfball events.
2.2 km · football stadium in Antwerp, Belgium · Wikipedia - 02Middelheim Museum
Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum is a sculpture park of 24 hectares in the park part of the Middelheim Nachtegalen Park at Antwerp. The Middelheim Museum collection has approximately 400 works of art on display.
2 km · open air museum in Antwerp, Belgium · Wikipedia - 03Les Peupliers
Maison Guiette also known as Les Peupliers, is a house in Antwerp, Belgium, designed by Le Corbusier in 1926 and built in 1927. It was the studio and living quarters of René Guiette, a painter and art critic.
1.8 km · House by Le Corbusier in Antwerp, Belgium · Wikipedia - 04national redoubt of Belgium
The National Redoubt refers to a 95 km -long ring of forts around the major port city of Antwerp, Belgium built between 1859 and 1914. By 1914, it consisted of 28 forts arranged in two rings around the city.
3.3 km · fortress in Antwerp, Belgium · Wikipedia - 05Schoonselhof
Schoonselhof Cemetery is located in Hoboken, Antwerp, a suburb of Antwerp, Belgium. Schoonselhof Cemetery has an Islamic and Jewish section.
2 km · cemetery in Antwerp, Belgium · Wikipedia - 06Sorghvliedt Castle
Sorghvliedt Castle is a building in Belgium with a history dating back to the 16th century. It was originally a farm building called Wickeleynde owned by the merchant Jean Plaquet and his wife Maria Leydeckers.
2.9 km · castle in Belgium · Wikipedia - 07Nachtegalen Park
Nachtegalen Park is a park located in the Antwerp, Belgium municipality of Wilrijk. It served as the archery venue for the 1920 Summer Olympics.
2 km · park in Antwerp, Belgium · Wikipedia - 08Vélodrome d'Anvers Zuremborg
The Garden City Velodrome was a velodrome located in Antwerp, Belgium. A 400-metre track, it hosted the track cycling events for the 1920 Summer Olympics and the UCI Track Cycling World Championships that year.
300 m · velodrome located in Antwerp, Belgium · Wikipedia
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Getting to Wilrijk
- Airports
- Brussels (BRU), 30 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 75 km · Brussels South Charleroi (CRL), 79 km
- Stations
- Antwerp-South railway station, 3.4 km · Mortsel-Deurnesteenweg railway station, 4 km
- Charleroi → Wilrijk84 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · €10–14
- Oostende → Wilrijk103 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · €12–17
- Eindhoven → Wilrijk81 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · €9–13
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Wilrijk
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 Wilrijk. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are some regular, but mostly seasonal flights to various popular holiday destinations in Southern Europe, Morocco and Turkey, as well as private and chartered (business) aviation.
- Get inFrom the United Kingdom: take your bike on the ferry from Dover to Dunkerque (France, 20 km from the Belgian border, from the ferry port is actually over 30 km) and follow the coastal road from there until you reach De Panne (Belgium).
- Go nextSome of the more popular destinations that can be visited on a day trip from Antwerp are: Bruges (Brugge) — Very nice medieval town.
- Go nextThe train ride is pretty long (sometimes over two hours) making it less easy for a day trip.
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Next door to Wilrijk
Wilrijk is 6 km from Antwerp, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Aartselaarmunicipality in Antwerp, Belgium3.8 km
- Edegemmunicipality in the province of Antwerp, Belgium3.8 km
- Hobokendistrict of Antwerp in Flanders, Belgium3.3 km
- Berchemdistrict of the City of Antwerp, Belgium3.4 km