Explore Wavre
Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
Aqualibi is an indoor water park in Wavre beside the Walibi Belgium theme park, opened in 1987 under glass pyramids with a tropical theme. It has a wave pool, whirlpools and slides; an expansion completed in December 2023 added four new slides and brought the park to nearly 8,000 m². It is open all year.
Official siteTickets available
Walibi Belgium is a theme park of about 64 hectares in Wavre, south-east of Brussels, opened in 1975 by Eddy Meeùs. Its name combines Wavre, Limal and Bierges, and its grounds around a lake hold wooden and steel roller coasters, water rides and children's areas. The Aqualibi indoor water park stands next door.
Official siteTickets available
Open now · 18:00
Museum in Tervuren, east of Brussels, built from 1904 to designs by Charles Girault and opened in 1910 to present King Leopold II's Congo Free State. After renovation from 2013 it reopened in December 2018 as AfricaMuseum, showing ethnographic, natural-history and contemporary collections from Central Africa and presenting the colonial period and its legacy.
Official siteTickets available
Open now · 17:00
The Wellington Museum occupies a former inn of 1705 in the centre of Waterloo, where the Duke of Wellington had his headquarters on the nights of 17 and 18 June 1815 and wrote his despatch on the victory. Its rooms present the campaign and the battle with weapons, prints and objects from the armies that fought, and it holds temporary exhibitions.
Official site
The Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo is a rotunda built in 1912 to designs by Franz Van Ophem beside the Lion's Mound, on the battlefield south of the town in Braine-l'Alleud. Inside, Louis Dumoulin's circular painting, 110 metres long and 12 metres high, shows French cavalry charges of 18 June 1815; it shares the Memorial 1815 ticket.
Official site
The Lion's Mound is a 40-metre artificial hill on the Waterloo battlefield, south of the town in Braine-l'Alleud, completed in 1826 for King William I of the Netherlands where his son, the Prince of Orange, was wounded on 18 June 1815. 226 steps lead to the lion statue; it shares one ticket with the Memorial 1815 sites.
Official site
Open now · 17:30
Memorial 1815 is the visitor centre of the Waterloo battlefield, south of the town in Braine-l'Alleud, opened in 2015 for the bicentenary of the battle of 18 June 1815. Its 2,000 m² exhibition shows uniforms, period objects, animated maps, a 33 m² model of the battle and a 4D film; its ticket also covers the Lion's Mound, the Panorama and Hougoumont.
Official site
Plan a day →