Editing Herentals (section)

==Highlights==
Herentals has some outstanding historical buildings, including the church and town hall; the town hall and its [[Belfry (architecture)|belfry]] is listed as one of the [[Belfries of Belgium and France]], a [[UNESCO]] [[World Heritage Site]].<ref>{{cite web |title=World Heritage List {{!}} Belfries of Belgium and France |work=[[UNESCO]] |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/943 |access-date=2021-03-16}}</ref> The old city gates, the ''Bovenpoort'' (Northern gate) and ''Zandpoort'' (Western gate) are still standing, while the ''Nederpoort'' and ''Koepoort'' were torn down a long time ago.

The [[Hidrodoe]] science museum is located in Herentals.  There is also a large [[chocolate]] factory located in Herentals, which is the only production facility in the world for Milka's Leo chocolate wafer bar.

Herentals is a centre of commerce in the region, although the cities of [[Geel]] and [[Mol, Belgium|Mol]] are quite popular as well.

Herentals is twinned with [[IJsselstein]], [[Netherlands]]. The inhabitants of the [[Campine]] region have common [[sobriquet]]s that are particular to their towns; people from Herentals are referred to by the colloquialisms ''"Klokkenververs"'' (meaning "bell painters") and ''"Peestekers"'', which comes from the old story about the farmers of the town using carrots ({{lang|nl|italic=no|pekes, "pee"-stekers}}) as a lock on the "Zandpoort", one of the great city gates in that time.