Tourist attractions Veurne

This vast square is lined with fine buildings (Town Hall, Landhuis, St Walburg church) and mostly early-17C houses topped by imposing gables, pediments and cornices. On the north side, note the set of five houses with fine gables, adorned with heav..

Out in the middle of fields, the superb stables, cowsheds and barn of Bernard and Christine Carette-Six's working farm were converted in 1994 into an exhibition space focusing on the habits and customs of the region at the start of the 20C. You can l..

«To mix art and industry» was an obsession with Jean Delaine, an engineer who created a superb modern art collection: Karel Appel, Arman, Sam Francis, Vieira da Silva, Andy Warhol, Joan Miro are all in this building, designed by the architect, Jean W..

The 15C Spanish Pavilion on the corner of the main square and ( Ooststraat ) was the town hall until 1586. It was the Spanish officers' quarters in the 17C.

The meat market (1615) has a pretty façade and now houses the town library in a former butcher's shop.

In 1906, the Austrian writer Rainer Maria Rilke stayed in this former inn, the Noble Rose ( Die Nobele Rose, 1572 . Opposite, a small monument commemorates the Nieuwport lock-keeper who caused flooding in 1914.

The old law courts building was once a castellany (1618) and was inspired by Antwerp's city hall. Note the Gothic belfry (1628), topped by a Baroque roof, behind.

This arcaded house (1636) at the south end of the main square was the former guard-room. Its side wall overlooks the apple market (Appelmarkt) and St Nicholas' church.

The Flemish Renaissance Town Hall was built in 1596 (left) and 1612 (right). It has a double pedimented façade with an elegant loggia and a small onion-domed turret crowning a staircase at the back. Inside, the walls are lined with fine leather from ..

The first Romanesque church, razed by Norsemen, was rebuilt in the 12C. The 13C saw the start of a new but never completed building, as the 14C chancel and base of a tower (neighbouring square) suggest. The interior has imposing and harmonious propor..

This hall-church is topped by a fine 13C huge brick tower that houses one of Flanders' oldest bells, the Bomtje (1379). The interior has three aisles of equal height. Note the interesting high-altar triptych (1534) depicting the Crucifixion, which ..

This museum presents types of cereals used for bread-making, implements for baking bread and speculoos biscuits to preparing ice cream and waffles. Note the small revolving mill, a small reconstructed bakery and confectionery shop, as well as 19C-20C..

This fine set of brick buildings once belonged to Dune Abbey. The monumental barn, similar to the one in Ter Doest, now lies in ruins.

This 30ha theme park is based around Samson and Gert (a dog that speaks to his master), plus an elf called Plop, who are very popular with children in Flanders. The focus here is on younger visitors: free entrance for those below 1m in height!

The museum includes a reconstructed regional interior, workshops (lacemaker's, clogmaker's etc.), a chapel, a grocer's shop, a barn and a small school.

This abbey was founded by Benedictines in 1107 and became Cistercian in 1138. It was one of Western Europe's major abbeys under Abbot Elias van Koksijde around 1300 and was destroyed by Calvinists in 1566. The ruins still reveal the majestic lines ..

This modern church (1962) lies north of the abbey. Its undulating roof and navy-blue colour bleu recall the ocean waves, while its beige brick walls reflect the dunes. Inside, the stained-glass windows diffuse glistening light. The crypt contains a r..

This modern museum houses a fine collection of boats, nautical instruments and paintings by artists who worked in Oostduinkerke c 1900, such as Artan , the 19C Belgian painter born in The Hague. A typical fisherman's house was built nearby, as well ..

Visitors can see Delvaux's Post-Impressionist to Surrealist development with paintings, watercolours, drawings, engravings and sketches and enter his dreamlike, hallucinatory and poetic world here. Note the eerie light in Gare forestière (1960). Ther..

This brown brick church with great pointed roofs dates from 1954. Arcades link it to a massive square tower reminiscent of the one in Lissewege. Inside, the dominant yellow tones contrast with the bluish flagstones. It is an unusual church due to its..