Through Haspengouw villages

Small villages are central to this cycle route, which leads you through the beautiful Belgian landscape from one hamlet to another 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 center of the area. Rijkel is a very small hamlet with only a few hundred inhabitants. The village has a pleasant agricultural character. There is a lot of greenery in the area. Rijkel's most famous tourist attraction is the U-shaped water castle, Rijkel Castle, which was built in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The village of Hoepertingen is also located near Rijkel, a sub-municipality of Borgloon. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the village was one of the redemption villages and was part of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands until 1795.