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Zaventem

Zaventem

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

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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.

Get in

Getting to Zaventem

Brussels Airport is 3 km from Zaventem. Zaventem is located on the E40/A3 with the exits Sterrebeek and Kraainem. Furthermore, within the municipality there is the motorway junction Sint-Stevens-Woluwe. Here the E40 merges with the R0 (Brussels ring road). The R0 also passes through Zaventem and has two exits: Zaventem-Henneaulaan and the motorway access to the airport.

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    Zaventem

    Served by the S2 and S9 lines of the Brussels suburban rail service and by InterCity trains.

See

Worth seeing

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    Saint Martin
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    Saint Pancras
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    Memorial Garden
Do

Things to do

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    Cultuurcentrum De Factorij

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

Eat

Where to eat

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    Da Lino

    Vilvoordelaan 9,.

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    Brasserie Mariadal

    Kouterweg 2,.

How locals move

Getting around Zaventem the local way

  • 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. Last edited 2026-09.

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