Tongeren Travel Guide

 yashiko Says:  The museum has 18,000 artifacts dating from prehistory through the Roman and Merovingian periods. The Roman period is especially well-represented, and includes huge and important collections of relics from Roman Atuatuca Tungrorum, its cemetery, and the surrounding... 

 Maeve_81 Says:  One of the best Gallo-Roman collections of Belgium.It's also a great museum for kids, they'll love it there!Visiting hours :monday : 12 pm - 5 pmtuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday : 9 am- 5 pmsaturday, sunday, holidays : 10 am - 6 pm24/12 + 31/12 : 9 am - 12 pm 

 jojes Says:  Tongeren has had a Gallo-Roman museum for many years.About 10 years ago, a new museum was built, with better facilities to store and exhibit the large collection of historic remains.Very soon there was a boom is the number of visitors and it became clear after a few years... 

 jojes Says:  The Tongeren tourist train takes you to the most of the important tourists spots and main attractions and sights.The tour takes about 45 minutes and takes you around in the centre as well as outside the city walls.When ? :* april - 30 september : daily (exc. thursdays) 1... 

 jojes Says:  With Tongeren as a base, you can easily discover the surrounding area called Haspengouw.There are a lo o walking and cycling routes with signposts to guide you on your way whilst you are looking for a peaceful and suiet time discovering the nature and the neighbouring... 

 KShezz Says:  We always ,always use this restaurant for our take out chinese food...why?..its simply the best we have ever found...we do take out because we like to watch movies while we eat chinese foood together ...but I am sure eating at the restaurant is good too The beef in black... 

 KShezz Says:  We went here at the request of second oldest child for her grown up evening meal choiceBad choice!I dont like to give a 'bad' review as such but you can suffice to say that we will never go back.The food is not served to you it is a case of you have small plates and you... 

 LoriPori Says:  Sunday, July 31. 2005On Sundays, Tongeren is an international town. You will see Dutchmen, Germans, French and British. And I spotted at least two Canadians!! They all meet at the weekly antiques fair. When Johan mentioned there was a large antique market in Tongeren, I was... 

 jojes Says:  Every sunday morning there is an anique and curious market in Tongeren.In the past 30 years it has grown to become an international well known market. The market takes place the whole year, summer and winter, rain or sun.With over 350 vendors it is the largest in the... 

 jojes Says:  The Festival of Flanders is a festival that already exists for almost 5 decades and became one of the most important widespread cultural events.Between june and december, over 550 concerts are organised in about 80 cities. It's not all classical music that is being... 

 LoriPori Says:  After leaving Tongeren, Johan took us to this fairy-tale castle called ALDEN BIESEN. As there was some type of function going on inside, we were not able to go in, but we did explore the grounds of the castle.Alden Biesen is located near the town of Bilzen on the E313... 

 LoriPori Says:  The subsoil in the area around the Basilica contains remains from a long historical period, dating from the Roman ages until the Middle Ages.