You’d think that this service would already be available from tourist offices, and to some extent it is. Sometimes, local tourist information is detailed but fragmented. And information at national level is limited as tourism is a regional matter in Belgium. With a soft curtain between Flanders and Wallonia, it’s also harder to spot tourist attractions across the language border.
Therefore this map, to puzzle it all together in high resolution. In the current version, the map includes about 600 tourist attractions.
How many tourist attractions does Belgium have? We have 365 attractions listed in the very incomplete guide 365.be. Lannoo does a bit better with 1000 must-see places in Belgium. Allegedly, we have over 3,000 castles - through most will not be tourist attractions. OKV’s museum guide lists 400 museums just for Flanders & Brussels. And Wikipedia lists over 70 abbeys. The links to these benchmarks can be found in a diigo list. If we include abbeys, battlefields, castles, industrial archaeology, monuments, museums, parks and walks, we’ll easily end up with 1,000s of sites, and this map is - at best - only 20% complete.
