Tour of the Visdonk Estate

Your route starts at Brasserie Oostplein. From here you walk through the outskirts of the city to the lovely Visdonk Estate. Here you will find a varied landscape with old lanes, forest and heath. Immediately drop by the Environmental Education Centre Watermolenbeek (MEC). Here you will learn everything about the special environment. In the summer, beautiful gentians bloom around the Rosenven. The Visdonk Estate already existed in the seventeenth century. In the Middle Ages, a lively trade in peat, dried peat, developed here. Peat was used as fuel for households and breweries. Via the Roosendaal harbour, it was exported to England and France. At that time, the Vliet was still in open connection with the North Sea. A shortcut through Roosendaal brings you back to the start.