--- title: "Zaventem – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Zaventem, Belgium: Zaventem is a municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in the Flemish region of Belgium. Nearby: Schaerbeek Cemetery, Brussels…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zaventem" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zaventem.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/ZaventemCentreAcrossLakeInMorning.jpg" --- Municipality in Flemish Community, Belgium · Flanders # Zaventem Zaventem is a municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in the Flemish region of Belgium. ![Zaventem](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/ZaventemCentreAcrossLakeInMorning.jpg) Zaventem · Wikimedia Commons 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaventem), CC BY-SA 4.0. 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schaerbeek_Cemetery) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_Cemetery) 3. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malou_Park) 4. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCLouvain_Brussels_Woluwe) 5. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_of_Jacques-Louis_David) 6. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Research_on_the_Epidemiology_of_Disasters) 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. See ## What Wikivoyage says to see 1. Saint Martin 2. Saint Pancras 3. Memorial Garden From [Wikivoyage: Zaventem](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Zaventem), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Do ## Things to do 1. Cultuurcentrum De Factorij Willem Lambertstraat 10, ticket office), info@ccdefactorij.be. From [Wikivoyage: Zaventem](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Zaventem), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Eat ## Where to eat 1. Da Lino Vilvoordelaan 9,. 2. Brasserie Mariadal Kouterweg 2,. From [Wikivoyage: Zaventem](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/charleroi-to-zaventem) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Charleroi&to=Zaventem) - Oostende → Zaventem 114 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · €12–17 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/oostende-to-zaventem) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Oostende&to=Zaventem) - Eindhoven → Zaventem 94 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · €13–18 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/eindhoven-to-zaventem) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Eindhoven&to=Zaventem) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Zaventem) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. 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 next Several 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](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Brussels%2FNorth-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. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 270 km 2. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 406 km 3. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 591 km 4. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 640 km 5. [Helsingborg and the Öresund crossing](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/helsingborg) SE 6 ways of moving, 13 sources 792 km If you know how people move in Zaventem – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Czaventem&title=Zaventem&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fzaventem), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Zaventem Zaventem is 8 km from [Brussels](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/brussels), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Woluwe-Saint-Lambert](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/woluwe-saint-lambert) municipality in the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium 3.8 km - [Kraainem](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kraainem) municipality in Flemish Brabant, Belgium 2.7 km [The place page for Zaventem](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/zaventem) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Belgium](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-BE) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zaventem, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt