When you have seen everything in Bruges, you can visit one of the interesting places around this city.
Day Trips
Provincial Estate Tillegembos
In St.-Michiels you'll find Provincial Estate Tillegembos: over 200 acres of well-kept woodland with interesting flora and fauna, footpaths, playgrounds, horse-mill, rural inn "De Trutselaar", etc. Also remarkable 14th-century water-castle, today seat of Westtoerisme, the Provincial Tourist Board for West Flanders.
Tudor City Park
Tudor City Park Sint-Andries : charming country park (ca 100 acres) with majestic castle in Tudor style. Signposted foothpath. Daily open from dawn till sunset. The botanic garden and bee-hives can be visited from 1.5 through 31.10 (Monday-Friday : 2-5 p.m., Sunday : 2-6 p.m.).
Info : Stedelijk Park Beheer, Bruges.
Boudewijnpark & Dolfinarium
Boudewijnpark & Dolfinarium, A. Debaeckestraat 12, Sint-Michiels : attractive family theme park with lots of games for children, ice rink, giant wheel, horror-castle, rollerskate rink, midget golf, etc.. At the Dolfinarium (1.600 seats), playful dolphins and sea-lions offer a fascinating show.
City Park Beisbroek
In Sint-Andries there's City Park Beisbroek : lovely country park covering some 200 acres, with deciduous and needle-leaved trees, heath-land, footpaths, picnic-grounds, deer-compound and cafetaria. Permanent exhibition at the Nature Centre : open from 1.4 through 30.11 : Monday-Friday, 2-5 p.m.
Fax: +32 50 39 32 44
PC: B-8200
Url: www.beisbroek.be
Tel: +32 50 39 05 66
email: [email protected]
Address: Zeeweg 96 Brugge
Zeebrugge
Linked with Brugge, its historic metropolis, by a 7.5 mile canal, Zeebrugge is a seaside resort looking to the future. The international port, jutting far out into the sea, doesn't prevent holidaymakers from frolicking on the fine little sandy beach. On the sea front, hotels and cafés give tourists a place to relax with views over the dunes and the busy port traffic.
**Sint-Trudo Abbey Male **
Sint-Trudo Abbey Male : former castle of the Counts of Flanders, with a 14th-15th century keep. Restored and enlarged from 1952 to 1972. Today convent of the canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre. Near the Abbey is the former town hall of Male (the 'Hooghe Huus") and an ancient pillory ("pelderijn").