Two-day Kempen hiking tour: part 2

Hilvarenbeek is a beautiful old village that you can easily discover on foot. In the countryside you walk through Landgoed Annanina\\\'s Rust, the Diessens Broek and along the Leemputten. With route 558910 you can walk part 1 of this route through the Kempen!

Diessens Trousers
From the heart of Hilvarenbeek you will soon enter the first nature reserve on your route: Annanina\\\'s Rust. This beautiful estate was founded in 1899 by a local notary. He named the estate after his Russian mistress who lived in a house on the estate. Further on you will walk along the Diessens Broek, a damp valley along the Reusel stream. This nature reserve is the meadow bird area of Central Brabant.

Clay pits
In Diessen you will see some beautiful old farms, you will also pass the beautiful fifteenth-century Sint-Willibrorduskerk. You will walk along the Leemputten. This is where loam was once dug to bake bricks. Now you will walk through a small-scale landscape of damp forest, scrub and wet grasslands. In Hilvarenbeek you can admire the historic Vrijthof.