Hilvarenbeek () is a municipality and a town in the south of the Netherlands, along the border with Belgium.
The biggest tourist attraction is called Beekse Bergen, consisting of a safari park, amusement park/playground, holiday bungalow park, and camping parks.
In the centre of the town the Sint-Petrus'-Banden is a Gothic church from the 14th and 15th centuries. The tower is a highlight of the Kempen Gothic.
Population centres
The municipality of Hilvarenbeek also includes the following villages with their own churches:
In addition, the following parts were historically separate, but are nowadays more like neighbourhoods:
Topography
Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Hilvarenbeek, June 2015.
Notable people
- Johannes Goropius Becanus (1519 in Gorp â 1573) physician, linguist, and humanist
- Martinus Becanus (1563 in Hilvarenbeek â 1624) a Jesuit priest, theologian and controversialist.
- Jacques Thomassen (born 1945 in Diessen) organizational theorist and academic
- Henny Vrienten (born 1948 in Hilvarenbeek â 2022) pop artist (Doe Maar) and composer of TV and film scores
- Annie Abrahams (born 1954 in Hilvarenbeek) performance artist in video installations and the internet
- Henk Baars (born 1960 in Diessen) cyclo-cross cyclist
- Ronald van Raak (born 1969 in Hilvarenbeek) politician, non-fiction writer and former academic
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