What can one experience here?

  • Walking

    Walking

  • Forest

    Forest

  • Recommended Merode walking network route.
  • Follow the nodes: 100 - 85 - 86 - 75 - 274 - 76 - 87 - 90 - 100 - 96 - 91 - 104 - 286 - 144 - 384 - 107 - 98 - 100.
  • Wander past the abbey's gatehouse of brown ironstone, which is also the Norbertine abbey's oldest-standing building.
  • Stroll through the Maria Park with its small grotto and quietly walk the meditative route evoking the seven sorrows of Mary.
  • Inhale the warm scent of pine on the air from the gorgeous conifers and look up in wonder at the mighty American oaks on and around the Weefberg.
  • Top it all off with some scrumptious ice cream on the 'Lekdreef’ [Ice Cream Lane].
  • Norbertijnenwandeling (©Lander Loeckx)
  • Abdij van Averbode (©Lander Loeckx)
  • Norbertijnenwandeling (©Lander Loeckx)