3 loops in Three Fountains, indoor loop (3,1km)

This is the inner loop that is last addressed in the '3 loops in Drie Fonteinen' (10km) in the route list of 'Vilvoorde soprtief'; She is about 3.1 km long and runs clockwise.

The departure and arrival point is located on the southern corner of the athletics/voutball stand with the parking lot against the Zeekanaal, just south of the Vredesbrug.

It is suitable for walkers, runners and cyclists. Cyclists have to get off the bike at the French Garden (stairs up), as well as 200m further (two short stairs down).

Typical sights along the way are (click on the POIs in the enlarged map):
The Lenterikkapel and most other park buildings (all former castle buildings have disappeared, but the remaining park buildings are particularly beautiful): a farm with stables; the imposing coach house (used for cultural activities), the Brasserie de Drie Fonteinen (a dilapidated Orangery for the renovation) with a French garden; A large playground and a small park with farm animals in the summer are on the route.

Route: Keep the grandstand of the athletics track on your right and the low buildings behind on your left. You end up at the same triple jump at the beginning of your first and second loop. Now you take the third one on the right, just against the low buildings. You come to the rear of the last low-lying football square (fence), and you follow it on your left to a tennis court; take the right there and keep going uphill here in the zigzag until you reach the Lanterikkapel (for example, you come to a T in the path that you take to the right). You now keep the Chapel to the right and you continue down the grass meadow next to the chapel and at the front of the chapel. On the grassy plain you cut a paved path that you take to the left and keep following. A little further take the first paved path to the right, which takes you back along the grassy plain. On the left you pass the playground, take immediately left behind it, and follow the parking facilities and the park ranger's building on your right (cobblestone). Cross the asphalt road and follow the large coach house in front of you on your left, you pass a tower building on the right and arrive at the front of the coach house, where you take the tree avenue to the left 30m further. At the French Garden take a left and you go through the French Garden towards Orangery (Brasserie Drie Fonteinen). At the entrance of the Brasserie take left and immediately right and follow the tree-lined avenue with the playground to your left, and the brasserie car park to your right. Behind this parking you take the paved path on the right that goes down between two buildings. Attention: behind these buildings you have two small stairs down: Get off your bike there or moderate walking speed. Follow the zigzag of this path and turn left at the T.
At the Y-junction you take the right, and in the descent (50m before you end up on the large grass meadow) you take the paved path to the right (Ganzenvoetweg). Follow this path to the bend (not to the higher grassy plain), and turn left onto the Brugweg (unpaved forest path) down. Below you pass remnants of a bridge over a forest stream, after which the path paved back up. On this path you take the first right that takes you to the fence of a tennis court. Take the right and follow the tennis court on your left. You come to a T at the low-lying ponds where you take two left. At the end of the pond you have a covered tennis building that you leave on your right side and a tennis court that you leave on your left. Take this paved path to the parking lot where you have completed your loop at the stands.

Although this park zone is located on the Zeekanaal and the Senne, the paths are regularly sloping: on this side of the canal begins the Heuvelland of 'Grim mountains', and you will have known: You have to take into account a height difference of about 52m per loop.

The park zone between the forests is largely laid out in English landscape style, so you can enjoy spacious views between the forests over grass squares and bomb avenues. The largest of these tree avenues ended in the north view on a (now no longer existing) castle, where the VTM is currently located.

You can find more about the History of this domain here: http://www.vilvoorde.be/product.aspx?id=673
Did you know, for example, that on the south side of this Park there used to be a lock complex for the ships on the Zeekanaal (then the Willebroeksevaart)? (http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeekanaal_Brussel-Schelde , and http://www.brussel.be/artdet.cfm/7508 )).