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    INSIDE THE RONDE Tour of Flanders

    Mar 20, 2020 3 minutes

    lemish writer Omer Wattez described the Vlaamse Ardennen, the Flemish Ardennes, as, “My beautiful country, with wide vistas, strong green and long rows of trees.” It’s an almost Tolkienesque corner of the world – gently rolling hills, farms, hilltop copses and panoramas of green, dotted with orange rooftoops and a network of villages connected by zigzagging roads. The ridge that forms the range fills a rough rectangle between the towns of Oudenaarde, Ronse, Zottegem and Geraardsbergen, never reaching more than 150m altitude on the Flemish side of the language border. The region is picturesque, but in a functional

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