The main square features St Bartholomew's church renovated in a 19C neo-Gothic style, and the Town Hall with toothed gables and corner turrets. The small Manneken Pis against it is said to be the oldest in Belgium (1455) and has its own ground-floor ..

The 18C abbey now houses a museum with old paintings and furniture from St Bartholomew's church in Geraardsbergen and the Hane Steenhuyse in Ghent. Note tobacco cultivation(which thrived locally from 1840 to the Second World War) and black Chantill..

This hilltop pilgrims' chapel contains a 17C statuette of the Virgin Mary and offers a fine view of the surrounding area.