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Aarschot

Aarschot is a town in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. It is located halfway between the regional capital and bustling student city Leuven and the smaller town of Diest. Wikivoyage

Population 29,965 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in Belgium

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Belgium

Getting there

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Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. Fun Days

    July

    A three-day music festival in the center of Aarschot, organised since 2005. There are small concerts, a flea fair and several other small activities. Every year it is organised in July

  2. Aarschot Volkoren

    September

    A free choir festival held every two years. This event is organised since 2011 in September. The next will be in 2019. In the previous edition most choirs were from Belgium and the Netherlands

    Official site

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Aarschot); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Eating nearby

All 24 places to eat

Somewhere to run

Getting around

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