Tervuren and the AfricaMuseum

Walk the old hunting domains of the dukes of Brabant in this remnant of the Coal Forest

A piece of Dijleland and perhaps from the end of 2023 the National Park Brabantse Wouden

A wooded walk with alternating expansive views through the beautiful Flemish Brabant Tervuren and its municipalities Duisburg and Vossem. A rolling landscape that is part of the Grape Region, located in the Green Belt around Brussels. We start by exploring a piece of the Sonian Forest, the Kapucijnenbos. An old monastery domain that we leave to step over the rural hill ridge of Duisburg towards Vossem. Arriving in Vossem, we take the river Voer back towards Tervuren, where we search for its splendid constructions and historical sites in the Park of Tervuren. From the Zevenster to the beautiful open park with ponds, concluding at the impressive AfricaMuseum and the village center of Tervuren with the Panquin barracks.

Sights along the way:

- Kapucijnenbos, piece of Sonian Forest or remnant of the Coal Forest in the former domain of the Capuchin monastery

- Duisburg, a municipality of Tervuren with its St. Catherine's Church from the 12th century

- Kouterweg and Zwette Jean, old steam tram between Vossem and Sint-Joris-Weert

- Vossem, municipality of Tervuren with the Gothic St. Paul's Church built around 1200

- Voer, a 19 km long tributary of the Dijle, which springs in the Sonian Forest and derives its name from Tervuren

- Tervuren, one of the historical glass villages in the Grape Region on the edge of Dijleland.

- Park of Tervuren, old hunting domain of the dukes of Brabant to the Congolese human zoo of the controversial Congo Museum during the World Exhibition of 1897

- Zevenster or Dolmenstone of Duisburg, not a dolmen but historical polishing stones

- AfricaMuseum or formerly the Royal Museum for Central Africa - most visited museum in Belgium that exhibits in 5 domains: cultural anthropology, zoology, geology, history, and land and forestry economics. But let us also reflect on our colonial past and actions in Congo and racism worldwide

- Colonization Palace or the current Africa Palace, first colonial museum of Congo during the World Exhibition of 1897 in Brussels-Tervuren.

- Remains of the Ducal Castle or Castle of Tervuren - residence of the Brabant dukes

- St. Hubert Chapel, a baroque chapel from 1617 - in honor of Hubertus - patron saint of hunters who is said to have died there

- Panquin Barracks, a former barrack that served for 116 years to the Belgian troops

- Tervuren's old city gate and the St. John the Evangelist Church, where three Brabant dukes are buried