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Blaton Canal Lock – Brasserie des Bateaux loop from Péruwelz
03:14
44.5km
240m
Cycling
Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: July 13, 2026
Tips
Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted
After 35.3 km for 82 m
Waypoints
Start point
Train Station
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7.15 km
Bois de Bon-Secours
Nature Reserve
10.5 km
Old drawbridge on the old canal
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Old bascule bridge.
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12.0 km
Canal Pommerœul-Antoing
Lake
16.2 km
Condé-Pommereuil Canal Lock
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16.6 km
Pommeroel Lock
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25.5 km
Mer de Sable, Parc naturel des Plaines de l’Escaut
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26.1 km
Forêt indivise de Stambruges
Forest
26.6 km
La Mer de Sable
Beach
35.3 km
All Saints' Church, Blaton
Highlight • Religious Site
The square cross tower dating from the fourteenth - fifteenth century is very slim (24 meters) for a Romanesque building. The spherical spire of the bell tower, added in the fifteenth century, measures 14 meters.
When you enter through the gable door, you will see the Gothic niches on the right, near the baptismal foundations.
(1490-1877): elements of an old "theothèque" or ogival tabernacle, fine white stone sculptures and statues of Saints Peter and Paul.
The nave consists of two rows of columns where sandstones alternate (Granglise) and blue stones (Basècles).
The pointed arches reflect a period of transition between Romanesque and Gothic and are topped by semicircular windows hollowed out but slightly offset (only openings before enlargement of the building).
The so-called "Tournai" capitals are decorated with ribbed leaves (palms or hearts). The wooden frame has been restored and partially replaced: twelve new beams for ten old ones on the central ceiling. Below the bell tower, in the center of four powerful pillars, the altar under a vault is quite exceptional in the region (dome on pendentives or vault in cul-de-four).
The transept, also original, is barrel-vaulted, characteristic of the Scaldian Romanesque style.
The choir, formerly in Gothic style is smaller, was rebuilt at the end of the nineteenth century in Romanesque Revival style. Re-plastered, it accentuates the difference from the primitive elements stripped and marked. At the end of the choir is a beautiful wooden crucifix (fifteenth century) with the symbols of the four evangelists at quadrangular ends.
In the right aisle, near the altar of All Saints, hangs an imposing painting by a regional painter (1837), depicting the Communion of All Saints. The reliquary of Saint Fortunat was donated to the church in 1732 and contains several relics of Roman and other martyrs.
Last notable elements: Saint Christopher and Saint Roch, polychrome wooden statues of the fifteenth.
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35.9 km
Blaton Canal Lock
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37.1 km
Iguanodon Statue of Bernissart
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42.7 km
Brasserie des Bateaux
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44.5 km
End point
Train Station
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
11.0 km
9.59 km
8.75 km
7.21 km
6.63 km
1.03 km
210 m
Surfaces
16.4 km
16.0 km
9.11 km
1.79 km
1.05 km
< 100 m
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Elevation
Highest point (70 m)
Lowest point (20 m)
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