The best cycling routes around Bertem

Blissful bike route in warm weather

Unless I'm mistaken... but I think it has disappeared... in any case, one of the <F3> has disappeared...

This work by Ad Wouters, dating from 2006, represents a bat and is part of the series of sculptures by this artist located in Heverleebos and Meerdaalwoud: a walk of about 26 km "Het Pad van Ad" allows you to admire his works, made from dead oaks. They change over time, with the seasons, caressed by the wind, rain, sun and sometimes... the hands of passers-by ;). For cycling junction enthusiasts, it is located between 76 and 82 or vice versa towards Leuven.

At a moderate speed you can fully enjoy the Brabantse Woud.

Comfortable shady gravel through the Meerdaalwoud.

A walled and hedged cemetery surrounds the parish church. The brick cemetery wall on a natural stone plinth is capped with a bluestone coping stone. Both the iron gates above the brick wall and the entrance gate hang from brick gate pillars with a bluestone capping. A pedestrian passageway runs to the left and right of the entrance gate. An undated natural stone cross has been incorporated into the north wall. The historic cemetery contains a series of gravestones from the interwar and postwar periods. They are designed in a sober Art Deco and Modernist style. The gravestones evolve from bluestone to (multicolored) composite stone, mosaic, synthetic material, natural stone, and granite, thus demonstrating the shift in material use between 1960 and 1980. Several epitaphs are placed on marble slabs. Near the entrance is a plot dedicated to Belgian veterans, marked by identical bluestone crosses bearing the Belgian flag. The cemetery expansion, dating from the 1990s, primarily includes granite headstones. The flowerbeds are bordered by clipped hedges and clipped hornbeam volumes. The shift towards ash burials is clearly visible in the newly created scattering meadow and urn vaults. Inventory of Immovable Heritage: Parish Church of St. Anthony with cemetery, https://id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/43369

Church built of sandstone; the floor plan unfolds with a west tower, three naves of three bays, a projecting transept, and a long choir ending in a three-sided apse. Square Gothic tower with three stories dating from the second half of the 13th century; ground floor covered with heavy rib vaults resting on roughly worked corbels; pointed arch towards the nave; upper floor perhaps formerly equipped with a tribune (currently in neo-style); bell storey with decorated sound holes in the east and south facades; rectangular, partially renovated wall openings in the other sides; oculus from the 18th century and neo-Gothic portal on the south side. Nave and transept from the same period, covered with a steep roof in late Gothic style (16th century); brick vaulting in the transepts, but wooden pointed barrel vaulting in the nave. Light corner buttresses against the shouldered gables of the transept arms; the arcade and northeast half-column are possibly older and built together with the choir. Western choir bay covered with a pointed barrel vault (late 15th century); closed-off and blind eastern section in a less developed Gothic style (13th or 14th century), partially rebuilt of iron sandstone in large and regular bond; new window in the north; the date 1731 on the choir apse probably indicates a restoration. Furniture. In the transepts, paintings by Verhaghen (late 18th century); Romanesque baptismal font decorated with four heads (12th century) and a Gothic holy water font (16th century). Inventory of Immovable Heritage: Parish Church of St. Anthony with cemetery, https://id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/43369

Heverleebos. Forest on the outskirts of the magnificent city of Leuven. Its paths, perfect for gravel riding, hosted the 2023 European Gravel Championships (with victories by Lorena Wiebes and local rider Jasper Stuyven) and the 2024 Gravel World Championships (with victories by Marianne Vos and Mathieu van der Poel).