This walk between Schoten and Sint-Job takes you along the Dessel-Schoten canal, the Antwerp Antitank canal, the E10 lake and the moat around the Fort van Schoten.
Distance: 11 km.
Time: 2h30.
Grade: Easy.
Type: Circular.
Gps Track: Yes.
Route description: Yes.
Wheelchair: Not suitable.
Dog: Allowed.
Height gain: Flat.
Trail: Paved and unpaved.
Marking: Walking nodes and own description.
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Schoten waterfront.
The walk starts at the bridge of the Dessel-Schoten canal. You follow the canal, popularly called De Schotense Vaart. From the canal you make a detour through forest around a closed part of the Antitank Canal. This is not really a canal but an artificial watercourse that was built between 1937 and 1939 with the intention of stopping enemy tanks before they could reach Antwerp. You cross the Dessel-Schoten canal and follow the Antitank Canal until the E19 motorway. Then you walk around the small E10 lake. This lake was a piece of preparation for the push canal, a project that is never realisezed. The last part goes along the moat around the Fort of Schoten. Via the Brechtsebaan you come back at the canal Dessel-Schoten, the starting point.
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