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Brasserie Château de la Motte – View of Borgloon Village loop from Villers-l'Évêque
03:26
57.3km
410m
Cycling
Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: July 9, 2026
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Includes segments with temporary access restrictions.
After 29.5 km for 73 m
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Waypoints
Start point
Bus stop
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23.7 km
Kasteelvijvergracht
Lake
29.0 km
Brasserie Château de la Motte
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29.5 km
Kasteel De Motte
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32.4 km
Tjenneboom
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Johanna Machiels was burned at the stake a few hundred meters away, on the highest point of the hill.
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32.6 km
Tjenneboom Monument
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Johanna Machiels was burned at the stake a few hundred meters away, on the highest point of the hill.
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38.7 km
Archaeological Site
Archaeological Site
39.4 km
View of Borgloon Village
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43.6 km
Heks Castle
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The palatial castle was built from 1770, probably by the Liège architect Etienne Fayen, for the Prince-Bishop of Liège Franciscus Karel de Velbrück.
As a lover of nature, the Prince-Bishop chose this place in the slightly hilly Haspengouw to build his summer residence and pleasure garden. He had a Chinese garden, a rose garden and a vegetable garden laid out there. Later, the castle was embellished with one of the first landscape parks on the European mainland, inspired by the English garden architecture of Capability Brown.
He died on his estate in 1784. The estate is owned by the d'Ursel family.
The rose garden now (2004) has an exceptional assortment of rose varieties, the oldest of which were present in the original garden. The gardens and park are open to the public during the first weekend in June and the second weekend in September.
The castle features in Harry Kümel's 1968 film Monsieur Hawarden.
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46.0 km
Sint-Pieters Chapel Vechmaal
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Immovable Heritage Inventory 2023: St. Peter's Chapel, id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/32215
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52.7 km
Sint-Pieterskerk Lauw
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The neo-Gothic building consists of a protruding west tower with three sections and a constricted needle spire, a basilical three-aisled nave with three bays, a transept with three-sided closure of both transept arms and a five-sided closed choir with a straight bay. The tower is equipped with superimposed buttresses and has a polygonal stair turret on the south side. On the north side of the tower is an octagonal baptistery and on the south side is a portal. In the west facade of the tower there is a pointed arch portal surmounted by a rose window, and there are also pointed arches in each facade. The central aisle is covered by a gable roof with slates and the two side aisles with pent roofs. The whole building is built in brick and finished with freestone and marl stone for corner blocks and decorative elements. The different parts of the building all have buttresses marking the bays and have pointed arch windows with tracery. The central nave also has pointed arched fanlights. The choir is lower, has a gable roof, is flanked by sacristies and on the north side is a polygonal stair turret. The transept arms have brick friezes below the cornices. Between the nave and the two aisles is a pointed arch arcade on beamed piers. Under the clerestory is a triforium. The vaulting of the building is done by rib vaults on pillars.
The church is the parish church of the village and dedicated to Saint Peter.
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57.3 km
End point
Bus stop
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
43.9 km
6.36 km
3.47 km
3.30 km
197 m
133 m
Surfaces
34.4 km
20.7 km
2.03 km
170 m
156 m
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Highest point (140 m)
Lowest point (60 m)
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