6 Sights in Hasselt, Belgium (with Map and Images)

The beguinage of Hasselt is one of the so-called walled square type, located northeast within the Groene Boulevard adjacent to the Jenever Museum in the Witte Nonnenstraat, the Bonnefantenstraat, the Zuivelmarkt, the Badderijstraat and the Hasselt Limburg library. In its current form, the beguinage consists of a V-shaped series of thirteen houses with a courtyard situated around a square of 60 ares laid out as a garden, in which the ruins of the former beguinage church have been preserved. The current beguinage is the third beguinage in history.

Wikipedia: Begijnhof Hasselt (NL), Website, Heritage Website

The Old Cemetery is a cemetery in Hasselt located on the Kempische Steenweg north of the city center. The cemetery was in use from about 1800 to 1930. It is an example of a park cemetery as they were laid out in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Since 2004, it has been included in the list of protected monuments because of its valuable funerary heritage.

Wikipedia: Oud Kerkhof (Hasselt) (NL), Heritage Website

The Virga Jesse Basilica is a basilica located on Kapelstraat in Hasselt, Belgium. The church is best known for housing the 14th-century statue of the Virga Jesse, which is paraded through the streets of Hasselt every seven years during the Seven-Yearly Festivities.

Wikipedia: Virga Jesse Basilica (EN)

The Japanese Garden of Hasselt is a park in the Belgian city of Hasselt. Designed in the traditional 17th-century style, it was donated to the Belgian city by the city of Itami. It is the largest Japanese garden in Europe.

Wikipedia: Japanese Garden of Hasselt (EN), Website

The Tuiltermolen is an undershot mill on the Tuilterdemer, a river that runs parallel to the Demer. The mill is located at Zolderse Kiezel 220 in Kuringen and belongs to the complex of the Abbey of Herkenrode.

Wikipedia: Tuiltermolen (NL)

The St. Quentin Cathedral, dedicated to Quintinus, is located in the center of Hasselt. The St. Quintinus Church became a cathedral when the diocese of Hasselt was founded in 1967. Until then, the inhabitants of the province of Limburg were members of the diocese of Liège. It is also the parish church of the parish of St. Quintinus. The cathedral choir graces the pontifical celebrations.

Wikipedia: Sint-Quintinuskathedraal (Hasselt) (NL), Heritage Website