Learn more insights from Wanderboat AI.
De Gouden Molen
4.3
(403)
$$
De Pub Rossum
4.6
(105)
$$
Nieuw Fort Sint Andries is one of those rare places where nature and history don’t just meet — they converse. Walking across its grounds, the walls and ruined cellar-vaults whisper stories of old conflicts: the fortress built post-1815 on the bones of earlier fortifications, the Cold War watchtower standing guard, the rubble where once soldiers stood. And everywhere the plants: more than 150 species, the silence broken only by birds, frogs, and the occasional breeze. What I found wonderful is how the site honours both ruin and renewal. Paths go past cracked walls, rusting masonry, and through patches of sunlight where wildflowers push upward. The luchtwachttoren is climbable — from its height you look out over dikes, rivers, and meadows; you feel the shape of the land, how water carved history here. There’s a gentle neglect in parts — overgrown patches, lack of benches, informational panels that could tell more — but those are not flaws so much as signs of authenticity. If you’re someone who appreciates relics of the past — not polished, not museum-still, but raw, overgrown, alive — this is your place. It’s restorative, thoughtful, evocative. Five stars, because few places carry both memory and life as...
Read more
Groundskeeping, in the sense of plane control, is essentially nonexistent. If come during the right season, you could pick a ton of blackberries. In a few brief years, this sure will be so overgrown with thorny bramble, nobody will be able to visit. Very sad. That said, it is frequented enough for several trails to be worn to bare dirt in places, which is awesome because it really is a cool place.
I could wish the site of oude Fort Sint Andries was marked or...
Read more
&promo_pic=/hotel-sample/coolest.webp)
