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Hasselt is the capital of the province Limburg in Belgium.
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Hasselt is the capital of Limburg and is centrally located. It has about 79,000 inhabitants. Hasselt is nicknamed "The Capital of Taste" and is characterized by fashion stores and many catering establishments. It is a relatively small and pleasant city, with a large central pedestrian area.
Arrive
By plane
The Brussels International Airport is 80 kilometers from Hasselt and can be reached by train or by car. In shutter and Maastricht are smaller airports.
By train
Hasselt train station (NMBS) is directly accessible from Liège, Antwerp or Brussels.The station is within walking distance of the city center (10min.) or you can take the free shuttle bus.
By car
The highway E313 (Antwerp - Liège) passes Hasselt. The city center has been made car-free to a certain extent, parking is possible outside the small ring road. There are a few places where you can park for free, including at the Kanaalkom and Kolonel Dussartplein. From there, the city can be reached on foot or with the free city buses.
By bus
The bus services in Hasselt are excellently developed. The line reaches the city and drives up to the station. There are some free shuttle buses within Hasselt itself.
By boat
Hasselt is located on the Koning Albert Canal and can therefore be reached by boat.
By bike
Everything is easily accessible by bike. There are also several guarded bicycle parking areas, including at the town hall.
Travel around
To look at
The following are places of interest:
- The National Jenever Museum. The museum tells the story of Belgian jenever. It is located in a former distillery, the only one in the Netherlands whose malt house has been preserved. The Jenever Museum makes its own Hasselt jenever for ten weeks a year. €6.00 including consumption.
- It city museum (formerly: Stedelijk Museum Stellingwerff-Waerdenhof) is Hasselt's city museum where the history, the future and the inhabitants of Hasselt are central.
- It Old Graveyard is a cemetery near the city. With its iron and stone crosses, large and small funerary monuments and funerary chapels, the cemetery is a reflection of the wealth of the nineteenth-century bourgeoisie. Many wealthy families and rentiers, officials, gin distillers, etc. vie for the most pompous and most conspicuous tombstone as a token of power and fortune.
- The Stedelijk Fashion Museum traces the history of Western fashion from the eighteenth to the twentieth century on the basis of authentic clothing and accessories, fashion illustrations and photographs. The masterpiece of the collection comes from the collection of 18th and 19th century clothing from the private property of a Belgian noble family. It is a 'robe à la française' from the mid-eighteenth century, the period in which the fanciful rococo style reigned supreme.
- It Arts center Z33 (an abbreviation of the address Zuivelmarkt 33) in the historic Beguinage focuses on design and visual arts through integral and multidisciplinary projects: exhibitions, multimedia, film, dance, theatre, music, ...
- It Literary Museum is located in a nineteenth-century neoclassical mansion, close to the station. It shows five permanent exhibitions. There are also changing exhibitions.
- It Museum of Saint Paterke contains all kinds of objects from the parental home of Father Valentinus and from his monastic existence. His deathbed and place of death are preserved there.
- The Perfume-O-Theek, a small perfume bottle museum, with a collection of perfume bottles, miniatures, samples, perfume cards, publicity and powder boxes from the eighteenth century to the present.
- It Municipal Carillon Museum is housed in the tower of Saint Quint's Cathedral and sheds light on the history of the tower and the carillon. There is an old tower clock from 1911, which was coupled to a clock from 1899 and an 18th century carillon keyboard. The entire bell casting process is presented in the museum.
- The music dream is a music center, aimed at both the active musician and the passive pop consumer.
- It Arts Center BELGIUM is a recognized arts center with a range of cultural activities. On an annual basis, it presents some 200 public performances with video and film, dance and theatre, concerts, exhibitions and performances.
- At the end of 2007, 19 artists, designers and (interior) architects transformed the Hasselt zebra crossings of the Groene Boulevard into "art transfer points". The project was given the title crossovercrosswalk. The designs were by Atelier Brink, Hasselt Academy, Arte Skol, Bram Boo, Christophe Coppens, Dada Design, Steven Brouns, Geoffrey Brusato, Sara De Bondt, Saskia de Coster in collaboration with. Arno Geens, Willo Gonnissen, Stijn Helsen, Linde Hermans, Josworld, Victor Simoni, Piet Stockmans, Koen Vanmechelen, Ben Van Orshaegen and Fenna Zamouri.[1]
- It Cultural Center Hasselt, abbreviated CCHa, brings theater productions, concerts, ballet and opera performances to Hasselt every year. It includes a large and small theatre, an exhibition space, a spacious reception area, meeting rooms, a restaurant and a park in the center of Hasselt. In 2006 the large theater was completely renovated and equipped with a balcony.
- The Herkenrode Abbey was the first and once the richest women's abbey in the Southern Netherlands. The site is a silent witness to a grand past that began around 1180 in the center of the county of Loon. Until the French Revolution, the abbey experienced continuous growth and prosperity. Then she was completely dismantled, sold and distributed. 200 years of decay and destruction followed. During that period, the church and the cloister, among other things, disappeared. In 1972 the Canonesses of the Holy Sepulcher and in 1998 the Flemish Region bought the remaining domain. At the moment, hard work is being done on a new destination for the abbey and the 100 hectares surrounding (nature) area on the Demer.
To do
- Pukkelpop, one of the biggest rock festivals in Belgium, which is held every August.
- A visit to the Japanese Garden, which is also the largest in all of Europe. Open from early April to late October.
- Various sports facilities (skating rink, open-air swimming pool Kapermolen, bowling facilities,...).
- Plopsaland Indoor, the well-known indoor amusement park of Studio 100.
To learn
Hasselt University (UHasselt) and several colleges are located in Hasselt.
To work
To buy
Hasselt is known for the Jenever, the Hasselt speculaas and various chocolate shops. In addition, you will find a lot of fashion, for example from the well-known Hasselt fashion designer Stijn Helsen.
Food
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Going out
In Hasselt there are many (dance) cafes and the Versuz disco. In the Ethiasarena, the Cultural Center, the Muziek-o-droom and the Grenslandhallen there are often all kinds of concerts, parties or events. Hasselt also has an "underground" disco called The zoo.
stay overnight
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Safety
Hasselt is an extremely safe city.
Daily life
all around
Adjacent to Hasselt is the city of Genk, within which the Bokrijk Provincial Domainis located.