By Air

The city lies within approximately an hour drive from the airports of Brussels, Liege, Maastricht-Aachen, Antwerp, Cologne-Bonn, Dusseldorf and Charleroi.Within a three hour radius, the major hubs of Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris can be reached.Private aircraft can land in Hasselt itself on the airfield of Kiewit.

By Train

Hasselt is a junction of railways to Liege, Genk, Antwerp and Brussels.Near the center, just outside the inner ring the station is located.The station of Hasselt is an intercity railway station with direct connections to destinations including Brussels and Liege.From the station, all buses depart.The urban lines (H lines) are free for everyone since 1997.The other lines are free on the territory of Hasselt for the locals.In February 2007, the plan was launched to build a light rail connection between Hasselt and Maastricht.The works on this part of the Spartacus plan will begin in 2013.

By Bus

Hasselt made Public transport by bus zero-fare from 1 July 1997 and bus use was said to be as much as "13 times higher" by 2006.The transport network here is mainly by bus.All buses leave from the station.The town lines (called H-lijn) have been free for everyone including tourists since Tuesday 1 July 1997.Other bus lines are free for the inhabitants of Hasselt while travelling in the territory of Hasselt.The local H-lijn buses on the town lines carry an H on their number on the electronic destination sign above the windshield.The regional transport services, or so-called Red lines, are free for residents of Hasselt, who can travel without fare as long as they show their identity card to the driver of the bus.Red regional route bus stops are marked with signs indicating the beginning or end of the Hasselt bus network.Non-residents of Hasselt pay the usual area tariff, except for children under 12 who have zero-fare travel."Blue" regional lines incur a fare in the normal way.

By Road

The most important motorways are the European route E313 (Antwerp-Liege) and the European route E314 (Brussels-Aachen).Hasselt itself is enclosed by 2 ring roads.The outer ring road serves to keep traffic out of the city centre and main residential areas.The inner ring road, the so-called "Green Boulevard", serves to keep traffic out of the commercial centre, which is almost entirely a pedestrian area.There are also important traffic arteries to Tongeren, Sint-Truiden, Maastricht, Genk, Diest and Eindhoven.

Ethias Arena, Pukkelpop Festival, National Genever Museum, Hasselt Fashion Museum, Domain Kiewit Nature, St. Quintinuskerk cathedral, Japanese Garden Hasselt, Virga Jesse Basilica

Ethias Arena

is the largest multipurpose arena in Hasselt, Belgium used for music concerts, sports (tennis, indoor cycling, jumping, etc) and other large events.The arena opened in 2004 and holds up to 21,600 people.The Ethias Arena is a part of the Grenslandhallen and has a surface of 13,600 square meters (44,619 square feet).On the 26th of November, the Junior Eurovision Song Contest took place in the Ethias Arena.At the end of 2005, "Plopsa Indoor Hasselt" an indoor attraction park for children, opened next to the Grenslandhallen/Ethias Arena and is unique in Belgium.

Pukkelpop Festival

is an annual music festival which takes place near the city of Hasselt, Belgium in mid-to-late August. It is held within a large enclosure of fields and woodland—between a dual carriageway called Kempische Steenweg—in the village of Kiewit, approximately 7 km north of Hasselt. It is the second largest music festival in the country after Rock Werchter, with an attendance rate of 180,000 over the course of the event in 2009.The program is noted for its wide variety of alternative music, spanning styles such as rock, pop, electronic, dance, hip-hop, punk and heavy metal. The event's organizers aim the festival to be a "progressive and contemporary" musical event.The 2011 edition was cancelled on August 19, 2011 after a severe storm the evening prior caused extensive damage to several stages, killing five people and injuring at least 140.In 2000, an exchange programme was announced with Oppikoppi, an annual music festival held in South Africa near the city of Pretoria. In the same year, Eminem was forced to cancel his confirmed headline slot at the festival as he was barred from leaving the United States.

National Genever Museum

is a museum where all facets of gin firing illuminated.The museum aims to highlight all aspects related to the Belgian gin. Hence the epitethon National in 1981, purchased through the combustion plant, the production will be shown.In the tasting room, visitors, besides the house fired gin, more than 140 other gins Belgian manufacturers of fifty trials.It is limited to providing the heated above 35 degrees gin.Also, peripheral phenomena such excise legislation and alcoholism get attention.
There seize the initiative of the current (2008) curator Davy Jacobs, regular thematic exhibitions around the phenomenon of "gin".Outside is organized workshops and educational tours for schools.For the youth is not only alcohol but said it expands the story to recognize odors and flavors.Indeed, young people are raised with increasing sweetening of food and beverage culture.Also, why do not they sell fruit and cream gins.There are 50 000 annual visitors over the floor (2008).The annual festivities Hasselt Genever partly explain its success.

Hasselt Fashion Museum

The Fashion Museum Hasselt or MMH since 1986 a museum of authentic urban clothing housed in a converted monastery on the Gasthuisstraat to Hasselt in Belgium.The city of Hasselt with this covenant fashion, partly because of the numerous fashion shops in the city of Hasselt.The collection includes authentic clothing and accessories and fashion illustrations.All this from 1750.The Fashion Museum started in 1987 and the collection of historic clothing was very extensive when Andrei Ivanaeanu, a designer of Romanian descent entire collection to the city of Hasselt donated.Ivanaeanu was not only set designer and architect, also designer of theater and opera costumes.In addition, he collected historical clothing from around the world.The bulk of the collection of the Fashion Museum dates from the first half of the 20th century and includes designer clothes, but clothes for special occasions such as christening dresses, special wedding gowns, evening wear, mourning clothes.The "normal" ready-made clothing is available and outlines the evolution over time.The masterpiece in the collection comes from a Belgian noble family: a Robe à la Française, from the Rococo period.The complete collection includes over 14,000 pieces now.The core collection will be exhibited through changing exhibits, structured around a theme and often supplemented with loans.Outside the museum holds an annual thematic exhibition large, about a certain designer, a style period, around a specific material or a certain technique in which clothing or jewelry are processed. Also cross-fertilization between fashion and other art forms are discussed.The museum is a piece of social history and creative show and also a source of inspiration for fashion designers who are now active.

Domain Kiewit Nature

is located in the hamlet Domain Kiewit Kiewit of the Belgian city of Hasselt.Central to the domain of approximately 100 acres located one house from 1857 and a farm with a nucleus from the 17th century, which in 1869 were owned by the Vroon family. Construction of an English garden , a pond and floated followed. In 1953 the city of Hasselt acquired the domain that the short time allowed by sisters involved Trappistinnen . From 1975 the estate was given a new purpose as a petting zoo .From 2001 manages Natuurpunt the forests and grasslands. The expiry mansion was renovated in 2009 and is the Natuurpunt of Limburg. A butterfly garden with butterfly-friendly plants shows the life cycle of butterflies based on information boards.In the field are marked trails and bicycle routes that connect to the cycle of Limburg. There is a grass project which Galloway cattle are used.

Japanese Garden Hasselt

is the result of the friendship that cities Itami (prefecture Hyogo, Japan) and Hasselt maintained since 1985.Hasselt Itami in November 1991 gave a carillon tower and in Hasselt is the Japanese garden, the enduring, symbolic presence.The Japanese garden is an extension of the park Kaper Mill.It is an area of 2.5 hectares the largest Japanese garden in Europe.The teahouse is located halfway between a landscaped hill.The path to it lies along a moss-laid carpet.An important decorative element is the Oribe-stone lantern.Striking is the closed nature.The windows give a limited view of the garden and provide a minimum light, focused on the pre-installed in the floor got fire.Specific to the tea ceremony house is arranged in the clay wall round window, with the twigs and the outer windows made of bamboo lattice.Typically the horizontal and vertical lines of the used rocks, reinforced by the parties stone in the water put a foreground shapes.The splash of the water creates a soothing soundscape created.

St. Quintinuskerk cathedral

is dedicated to Quintinus, in the center of Hasselt located.The St. Quintinuskerk cathedral was the creation of the diocese of Hasselt in 1967.Until then, the inhabitants of the province of Limburg members of the diocese of Liege.She is at once the parish church of St. Quintinusparochie.The cathedral choir is listening to the pontifical celebrations.The construction was begun in the 11th century. From this period dates from the Iron sandstone built substructure of the tower (62 m). For the rest of the tower limestone used (13th century).The church itself, as it now exists, is two centuries younger.In the 16th century was built around the existing choir dealing with four chapels.The Carillon Museum containing a carillon keyboard from the 18th century and an exhibition that shows the bell casting process.a painting from the Abbey of Herkenrode the Sacrament procession of Herkenrode proposes to Abbess Barbara de Riviere and the ladies that the H. Sacrament appropriate.

Virga Jesse Basilica

The Virga Jesse Basilica in Hasselt is the place where in 1334 a member of the Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Clerkenkapel built.In 1727 it was replaced by a church in late baroque and early classical style.In 1944 the church and the adjoining houses heavily infested by a V-1.Sixteen people lost their lives.Picture the Virga Jesse, in the middle of the church was established, was virtually intact from under the rubble.The church was reconstructed in 1951 back into service.On 6 May 1998 lifted Pope John Paul II, the church basilica, an honorary title to such shrines is granted.The decorations of the basilica in the choir stand, namely a conopeum, last one umbrella canopy in red and yellow papal colors and a tintinnabulum, a clock in a beautiful container.Since 1980, the basilica a protected monument.

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