Aarle-Rixtel (2 km)

Worth seeing

• Croy Castle a 15th century castle
  
  
• Royal bell-founders Petit&Fritsen, since 1762 located in Aarle-Rixtel, is the oldest family owned business in the Netherlands.
  
  
• Hail cross, the only one left in Holland, was placed on a crossing point of roads as a defence against hail and protection of the harvest.

Museum

• Heemkamer Barthold van Heessel, archaeology finds, attributes of guilds and commodities of the church

Visit a firm

• Skybox on pig farm (varkens in zicht) Agro-Zicht, learn about the welfare and health of pigs and sows ( skybox open daily throughout the year, opening times 10.00am - 6.00pm, free admission)
• Het Klompenschuurtje, a traditional clog factory (every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon open)

Attraction

• Piggy wood (biggetjesbos), a walking route along twelve special pig's, free admission

Annual events

• Annual fair on Ascension
• June watermonth
• Balloon Festival of Brabant the first weekend of September

Bakel (4 km)

Worth seeing

• 'Standerd' mill of Bakel Sint Willibrordus, this rare type dates from1752 (open on Thursday evening and Saturday, free admission)
• Espse Hoeve, a medieval moat farm from the 15th until the 20th century, owned by a German conventual order in Gemert

The miller installs
the foresails.

Museum

• De Tolbrug (a remarkable collection of machinery and implements all connected to the countryside of Brabant between 1800 - 1950)

Lieshout (6 km)

Worth seeing

• Mills “De Leest 1900” and “Vogelenzang 1819”

Visit a firm

• Bavaria Brewery (for guided tours please contact in advance)
• 'Pottery Hoeve de Schoot'

Annual events

• Bavaria Open Air in the last weekend of August

Mariahout (9 km)

Worth seeing

• The Lourdes cave, a replica of the original Lourdes cave

Attraction

• Open-air theatre, during the summer season

Gemert (9 km)

Worth seeing

• Gemert castle (guided tours on Saturday by the VVV)

• 'Esdonks kapelleke', a hamlet near the chapel of Esdonk what never grew to a parish

Museum

• Boerenbondsmuseum (museum of the Agricultural Cooperation), representation of living and working in a rural village in 1900 (as from March 28th every Sunday a different theme)

Annual events

• Gemert Mert, an annual market on the second sunday of September with solid elements such as the Living Statue Festival and Stallion day

Nuenen (12 km)

Museum

• Van Gogh Village, in Vincentre you can see how Vincent van Gogh lived and painted in Nuenen

An artistic impression of the Vincentre

Visit a farm

• Sheep husbandry Rob Adriaans (as from the end of December up to April 1st every Saturday at 15.30 o'clock an excursion in the barn, following on children can feed lambs who had to be bottle-fed since birth)

Attraction

• Dierenrijk (Animal kingdom), a zoo where you meet the funniest and ugliest animals of our continent

Annual events

• Bloem en tuin (Flower and garden), an annual outdoor garden event on the Gulbergen estate (there are toilets for the disabled and the paths are well passable)