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Belgium

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Exceptional Sights

Historic Centre of Brugge;
Brussels Grand-Place dating from the late 17th century.

Population: 10,4 Million

Capital: Brussels

Currency: Euro

Language: Dutch and French

Size: 30,528 sq km

Time Zone :UTC+1


	Art Visit Antwerp: the City of Flemish Baroque master Rubens. History Discover the history of Flemish Beguinages. Fun Belgium is the birth place of Tintin, Smurfs, Lucky Luke, Boule & Bill cartoon characters.

Museums

Antwerp: Ethnographic Museum, Museum Plantin-Moretus (300 years of printing), Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Koninklijk Fine-Arts Museum; Brugge: Groeninge Museum and Memling Museum;

Brussels: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (Ancien and Modern Art), Strip Cartoon Centre (site in French or Flemish), Musical Instrument Museum, Art and History Museum in Cinquantenaire Park, Autoworld, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Science, The Horta Museum: art nouveau house built by Horta himself, Erasmus House; Ghent: Museum of Fine Arts, Contemporary Art Museum (SMAK), 13^th century Byloke Abbey Museum; In Flanders Fields Museum: remembering First World War in Belgium; Leuven: Religious Arts Museum, Vander Kelen-Mertens Museum; Namur: Archaeological Museum.

Historical

Anvers Cathedral of Our Lady and its tower, Rubenshuis (Rubens House), Beloeil Castle, Wallonie Castles, Bouillon Castle, Mariemont Domain, Seneffe Castle (Website in French only), Blégny-Trembleur mine and museum, Openluchtmuseum: The Open Air Museum, historical real life village with over 80 houses and farms, Brugge historic centre: Markt, belfry, Burg; Brussels: Grand-Place, Manneken Pis sculpture, Galeries St-Hubert: covered shopping gallery, Cathedral of St-Michael and St-Gudula, Notre Dame de la Cambre Abbey; Gaasbeek Castle

Ghent: Historic town, St Bavo’s Cathedral, bell tower, Castle of the counts; Halle Basilica; Jehay Castle of Huy; Leuven: City Hall, belfry (founded in 1230); St- James’s Church in Liege; Namur’s Citadelle; Collegiate Church: of Ste Waudru in Mons, Ste Gertrude in Nivelles, St-Vincent in Soignies

Abbey of Orval; Notre-Dame Cathedral of Tournai; Ruins of Villers La Ville Abbey.

Natural

Amblève Valley, Dierentuin Zoo (site in French or Flemish), Forest of Soignes, National Botanic Garden of Belgium, Hautes Fagnes Natural Park, Meuse river, Semois Valley, Han-sur-Lesse Caves.

Cities

Antwerp, Zurenborg neighbourhood in Antwerp, Bruges: discover by feet or by boat tour (boottocht), Brussels and wonderful “Grand-Place”, Dinant citadel and cathedral, Fourneau St-Michel and its museums, Ghent or official site in Flemish view from “quai aux Herbes” 12^th -17^th century houses

Huy and its bridge and Collegial Notre-Dame both from Gothic Art, Leuven home of Stella Artois and Domus Beer, Liege historic centre, Lier St Gummarus Church and Zimmer Tower Astronomical Clock, Mechelen and St-Rombaut Cathedral’s tower (97 meters high), Namur, Oudenaarde and its City Hall, Tournai Cathedral and Belfry.

UNESCO

Flemish Béguinages (1998), La Grand-Place, Brussels (1998), The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre and their Environs, La Louvière and Le Roeulx (Hainault) (1998), Belfries of Belgium and France (1999, 2005), Historic Centre of Brugge (2000), Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels) (2000), Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes (Mons) (2000), Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai (2000), Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex (2005).

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