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Beguinage in Turnhout – Market Square, Turnhout loop from Begijnhof Turnhout

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Beguinage in Turnhout – Market Square, Turnhout loop from Begijnhof Turnhout

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Beguinage in Turnhout – Market Square, Turnhout loop from Begijnhof Turnhout

01:39

6.51km

20m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: June 18, 2026

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Begijnhof Turnhout

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Start point

Parking

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1.20 km

Playing Card Museum

Highlight • Monument

The National Playing Card Museum, also simply the Playing Card Museum, was opened in October 1965 and has been housed in an old factory building in Turnhout since 1988. This museum documents the history, use and manufacture of the playing card.

Free entrance with the museum pass.

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2.62 km

Beguinage in Turnhout

Highlight • Historical Site

lourdes cave Beguinage oasis of peace in the city

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2.89 km

Beguinage Church of the Holy Cross (Turnhout)

Highlight • Religious Site

Beguinage church from circa 1665, dedicated to the Holy Cross and located in the western part of the beguinage; the first beguinage church was located near the Kruisberg. Non-oriented, detached church with Baroque and Gothic style features, built between 1662 and 1667 by order of Anna Bax, mistress of the beguinage, laying of the first stone on 25/6/1662, on the feast day of Saint Begga in 1666, the new, church not yet paved. Transformed into a Temple of Reason during the French Revolution. Restoration works carried out in 1978 and following under the direction of architect E. Wauters.

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2.91 km

Begijn Poem

Highlight • Monument

This is a poem for Hert voor Turnhout and was written by city poet Liesbeth Aerts.

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3.70 km

Castle of the Dukes of Brabant (Turnhout)

Highlight • Castle

The Castle used to be the hunting lodge of the Dukes of Brabant and now serves as a court. In the pond around the Castle you will see the statue of The Naiad, the goddess of all springs and rivers. The Naiad settled on the moat in 1991. Rik Poot designed the statue that makes us believe what the water nymphs from Greek mythology would have looked like. In Greek mythology you had Dryads and Naiads. The Dryads protected the forests and the Naiads the waters.

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4.56 km

The Sacred Heart Church

Highlight • Religious Site

With a height of 92 meters, the tower of the Sacred Heart Church is the highest in the city. The Sacred Heart Church is therefore visible from all access roads to Turnhout.

On May 9, 1896, the Official Journal mentioned the foundation of the parish of the Sacred Heart in Turnhout. In June of the same year, Petrus Verschueren was appointed pastor and his first assignment was to build a church. In 1903 the first stone of the current church building was laid. On February 3, 1907, the church was solemnly inaugurated. The very pure neo-Gothic style typifies the Sacred Heart Church. The Provincial Commission for Monuments and Landscapes classified the church as a monument in 1999. Since 2019, the Sacred Heart Church has become the Romanian Orthodox Church of St. Georgios and liturgical services take place there.
Source: tourism turnhout

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5.23 km

Sint-Pieter en Sint-Barbara Church

Highlight • Religious Site

The Catholic Church of St. Peter (in Dutch "Decanale kerk Sint-Pieter en Sint-Barbara") is a basilica with an early Gothic core from the 13th to 14th centuries, a high Gothic choir vault and transept, a Renaissance crossing tower, and a pseudo-basic nave and side aisles in the Claudius style.

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5.29 km

Market Square, Turnhout

Highlight • Settlement

The heart of Turnhout with many restaurants.

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6.51 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

3.49 km

1.96 km

591 m

254 m

214 m

Surfaces

5.85 km

365 m

291 m

Elevation

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Wednesday 8 July

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May 7, 2023,Turnhout stadswandeling

In the Gasthuisstraat, the GPS signal has made a strange outlier. You can ignore this.

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March 30, 2024,Stadswandeling Turnhout

We start our Easter weekend in the Kempen with a city walk in Turnhout. We walk past Torenhof, Warande and the castle of the Dukes of Brabant to the beguinage. We return past St. Peter's Church and the Turnova shopping street. A visit to the Playing Card Museum should of course not be missed. The showpiece is seeing the huge …

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Beguinage in Turnhout – Market Square, Turnhout loop from Begijnhof Turnhout

Playing Card Museum

Beguinage in Turnhout

Beguinage Church of the Holy Cross (Turnhout)

Begijn Poem

Castle of the Dukes of Brabant (Turnhout)

The Sacred Heart Church

Sint-Pieter en Sint-Barbara Church

Market Square, Turnhout

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