From Bredene to Ostend and Oudenburg

Bredene, Flanders, Belgium

Cycling route: 181392

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39.6 km
02:19 h
698 kcal
20 m

Description

Get to know the beautiful coast and the Polder plain behind it in West Flanders. The route takes you from the coastal town of Bredene through long connected dune zones. It is wonderful to make kilometers in this green environment. Just below Bredene you have beautiful views over the North Sea. On the other side of the harbor you drive along the coastal strip of Ostend. There are many cultural parties in this city every year, including Theater Aan Zee, the Paulusfeesten and Atmosphere in't Park. Ostend is a perfect place for fish lovers as fresh fish is sold daily in the harbor. It's lovely to step out on a bench just outside town for a picnic overlooking the surf. In the Poldervlakte, as the area up to fifteen kilometers behind the Belgian coast is also called, you pass through old picturesque polder villages such as Snaaskerke and Leffinge. The landscape here is flat and veined with a network of canals to drain the land. You can see from the pattern of channels and dikes that runs through the polder that the sea was gradually pushed back. Sometimes, however, the water was an important weapon in battle. For example during the Siege of Ostend, a three-year siege of the Spanish troops. During this siege, the dunes were pierced at the end of the sixteenth century, so that the hinterland as far as Snaaskerke and Leffinge was flooded. It took until well into the nineteenth century before these polders were completely dry again, because they had to function as a rinsing dock.
Parking Chapel or cross Lighthouse Museum Cultural routes

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Directions

# Description Distance
Duinenstraat, 8450, Bredene, Flanders, Belgium 0.00 km
67
67 (8450, Bredene, Flanders, Belgium) 1.31 km
39
39 (8400, Ostend, Flanders, Belgium) 2.18 km
99
99 (Voorhavenlaan, 8400, Ostend, Flanders, Belgium) 2.63 km
Vuurtoren Lange Nelle (Lange Nelle, 8400, Ostend, Flanders, Belgium) 4.04 km
10
10 (8400, Ostend, Flanders, Belgium) 5.72 km

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