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 Menen - The old ‘new’ locks Bousbecque - Paper mill Dalle & Lecompte Kortrijk - The Banque de Courtrai Kortrijk - Blanchisserie de Courtrai Menen - Windmill ‘De Goede Hoop’ Menen - Brewer’s House Les Trois Rois Kortrijk - The Buda Island & Factory Wevelgem - Old workshop op Eugène Baekelandt Kortrijk - Europaspinnerij Menen -The Tobacco factory Menen - French custom house Kortrijk - The Texture-museum Wevelgem - The ‘Groot Volander’ flax farm Kortrijk - Remains of the Flax spinning mill ‘De Kien’ Menen - Old Leie and new Leie Comines - The Railway station Kortrijk - Tuileries du Littoral Wevelgem Airport Kortrijk - Soetens Molen Wervik - Brieken-windmill Menen - Saint Johns Mill Flax retting and scutching site D’hondt at Menen Kortrijk railway station and the new town planning Bissegem - centre of flax retting and scutching Wervik - National Tobacco Museum Place to visit Kortrijk Menen Wevelgem Comines Comines - Musée de la Rubanerie Cominoise Wervik Kortrijk - Texture, museum over Leie en vlas 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