Through the villages of Haspengouw

Small villages are central to this cycle route, which takes you through the beautiful Belgian landscape from one hamlet to the next in the Belgian province of Limburg. The village of Rijkel is a sub-municipality of the municipality of Borgloon, which is known as the care centre of the area. Rijkel is a very small hamlet with only a few hundred inhabitants. The village has a pleasant agricultural character. There is therefore a lot of greenery in the area. The most famous tourist attraction of Rijkel is the U-shaped moated castle, the Kasteel van Rijkel, which was built in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The village of Hoepertingen is also located near Rijkel as a sub-municipality of Borgloon. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the village was part of one of the redemption villages and was part of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands until 1795.