Available LanguagesLanguage En Menen - French custom houseMenen is a real border town. The border between ‘Belgium’ (then part of the Austrian Habsburg Empire) and France was defined in 1713 (Peace of Utrecht) by the field of fire the canons from the city walls then could reach. As a result a bridgehead on the other side, the southern banks, of the Leie stayed ‘Belgian’ - now a for the French popular commercial hamlet, the ‘Barakken’ with in some places one side of the street being ‘Belgian’, the opposite side being ‘France’. Go to the old border and see the French custom house which is still existing.
Typology: Walk Travel time: 3 h Route Difficulty: Easy Places to visit Alternative activities Hotel and Restaurantes Places to visitAlternative activities Hotel and Restaurantes Alternative Activities Bousbecque - Paper mill Dalle & Lecompte Kortrijk - The Banque de Courtrai Menen - Windmill ‘De Goede Hoop’ Kortrijk - Blanchisserie de Courtrai Menen - Brewer’s House Les Trois Rois Wevelgem - Old workshop op Eugène Baekelandt Kortrijk - The Buda Island & Factory Menen -The Tobacco factory Kortrijk - Europaspinnerij Menen - French custom house Wevelgem - The ‘Groot Volander’ flax farm Kortrijk - The Texture-museum Kortrijk - Remains of the Flax spinning mill ‘De Kien’ Menen - Old Leie and new Leie Comines - The Railway station Wevelgem Airport Kortrijk - Tuileries du Littoral Wervik - Brieken-windmill Kortrijk - Soetens Molen Menen - Saint Johns Mill Flax retting and scutching site D’hondt at Menen Bissegem - centre of flax retting and scutching Kortrijk railway station and the new town planning Wervik - National Tobacco Museum Menen - The old ‘new’ locks Place to visit Menen Wevelgem Comines Comines - Musée de la Rubanerie Cominoise Wervik Kortrijk - Texture, museum over Leie en vlas Kortrijk EXPLORE THE STAGES OF THE ITINERARY Day 1Day 2Day 3Day 4Day 5Day 1Day 2Day 3Day 4Day 5 day 1 day 2 day 3 day 4 day 5 Every dayDay 1Day 2Day 3Day 4Day 5 Apply
