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Zaventem

Zaventem is a municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in the Flemish region of Belgium.

Zaventem
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The place

Zaventem is a municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is located in the Dijleland area, one of the three large recreational areas which together form the Groene Gordel around the Brussels-Capital Region. The municipality comprises the subdivisions or deelgemeenten of Nossegem, Sint-Stevens-Woluwe, Sterrebeek and Zaventem proper. The municipality is a suburb of Brussels, and Sint-Stevens-Woluwe directly borders the city, specifically the Woluwe-Saint-Lambert municipality.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Zaventem

6 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. 01
    Schaerbeek Cemetery

    Schaerbeek Cemetery, officially Schaerbeek New Cemetery, is a cemetery belonging to Schaerbeek in Brussels, Belgium, where the municipality's inhabitants have the right to be buried. It is not located in Schaerbeek itself; rather it is partially in the neighbouring municipality of Evere, and partially in the village of Sint-Stevens-Woluwe in Zaventem, Flemish Brabant.

    2.9 km · cemetery in Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Brussels Cemetery

    Brussels Cemetery is a cemetery belonging to the City of Brussels in Brussels, Belgium. Located in the neighbouring municipality of Evere, rather than in the City of Brussels proper, it is adjacent to Schaerbeek Cemetery and Evere Cemetery, but should not be confused with either.

    3.1 km · cemetery in Evere, Brussels, Belgium · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Malou Park

    Malou Park k]) is an urban park in the Woluwe-Saint-Lambert municipality of Brussels, Belgium. It is in the valley of the Woluwe stream, to the south-east of the Woluwe Shopping Center.

    3.4 km · park in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Brussels, Belgium · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    UCLouvain Brussels Woluwe

    UCLouvain Bruxelles Woluwe, also known as Louvain-en-Woluwe or Alma, is a campus of the University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium. The campus, built in the 1970s following the Leuven crisis, houses the Faculties of Medicine and Dentistry, Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences and of Public Health, the Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, the university's main academic hospital, as well as many other institutions of higher education and a vast sports complex.

    2 km · Medical campus of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Woluwe, Bruxelles · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    grave of Jacques-Louis David

    The Grave of Jacques-Louis David is an obelisque by an unknown artist in honor of the exiled French painter Jacques-Louis David in the Brussels Cemetery. It was moved there from its original location after the artist's death on 25 December 1825 where his body had been resting in the old churchyard of the Collegiate Church of St.

    3.3 km · monument in Brussels Cemetery, Evere · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters

    The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters is a research unit of the University of Louvain. It is part of the School of Public Health located on the UCLouvain Brussels Woluwe campus, in Brussels, Belgium.

    2.2 km · research center at the University of Louvain · Wikipedia

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See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Saint Martin
  2. 02
    Saint Pancras
  3. 03
    Memorial Garden

From Wikivoyage: Zaventem, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Cultuurcentrum De Factorij

    Willem Lambertstraat 10, ticket office), info@ccdefactorij.be.

From Wikivoyage: Zaventem, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Da Lino

    Vilvoordelaan 9,.

  2. 02
    Brasserie Mariadal

    Kouterweg 2,.

From Wikivoyage: Zaventem, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Zaventem

Airports
Brussels (BRU), 4 km · Brussels South Charleroi (CRL), 45 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 91 km
Stations
Brussels Airport-Zaventem railway station, 3.6 km · Crainhem/Kraainem metro station, 2.1 km · Stockel/Stokkel metro station, 2.8 km · Alma metro station, 2.1 km · Roodebeek metro station, 3 km
  • Charleroi → Zaventem
    53 km · quickest by road, 59 min · €7–10
  • Oostende → Zaventem
    114 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · €12–17
  • Eindhoven → Zaventem
    94 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · €13–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Zaventem

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextSeveral adjacent towns in Flanders are also worth a day trip: to the north-west, with an impressive abbey, public lunar observatory, and world class spa.

From Wikivoyage: Brussels/North-East, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    270 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    406 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    591 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    640 km
  5. 05
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    792 km

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Around it

Next door to Zaventem

Zaventem is 8 km from Brussels, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.