Brussels, Belgium; Must-See Attractions. Visit Brussels, 2018.
The Best of Visiting Brussels, Belgium, from the Manneken Pis Peeing Boy Statue to the Grand Place and to the Amazing Museums and Restaurants.
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Brussels Travel Guide - Belgium Perfect Holiday
Brussels Travel Guide - Belgium Perfect Holiday
Brussels (French: Bruxelles, Dutch: Brussel) is the capital city of Belgium and of Brussels Capital Region. It is entirely surrounded by Dutch-speaking Flanders and its constituent Flemish Brabant province. As headquarters of many European institutions, Brussels might also be considered something of a capital for the European Union. Being at the crossroads of cultures (the Germanic in the North and the Romance in the South) and playing an important role in Europe, Brussels fits the definition of the archetypal melting pot, but still retains its own unique character. The population of the city of Brussels is 1 million and the population of Brussels metropolitan area is just over 2 million.
When Brussels became the capital city of a new country in the 19th century, many buildings in the old town were destroyed to make way for brand new ministries, palaces, schools, army barracks and office blocks constructed between 1880 and 1980. The historic Flemish town centers are better preserved in other cities: Antwerp, Bruges, Ghent, Courtray, Leuven and Mechelen.
In the summer, maximum temperatures rarely reach 30ºC (86ºF) but can feel much hotter due to high humidity. The summer visitor should be prepared for rain. Warm and sunny weather is not constant during that season or even to be expected.
Brussels is split into nineteen communes or gemeenten (municipalities/boroughs):
Bruxelles/Brussel
Marolles/Marollen
Ixelles/Elsene
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean/Sint-Jans-Molenbeek
Saint-Gilles/Sint-Gillis
St-Josse/Sint-Joost
Uccle/Ukkel
Woluwé-Saint-Pierre/Sint-Pieters-Woluwe
Woluwé-Saint-Lambert/Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe
The City of Brussels is the location of many national institutions. The Royal Palace, where the King of Belgium exercises his prerogatives as head of state, is situated alongside the Brussels Park (not to be confused with the Royal Castle of Laeken, the official home of the Belgian Royal Family). The Palace of the Nation is located on the opposite side of this park, and is the seat of the Belgian Federal Parliament. The office of the Prime Minister of Belgium, colloquially called Law Street 16 (French: 16, rue de la Loi, Dutch: Wetstraat 16), is located adjacent to this building. It is also where the Council of Ministers holds its meetings. The Court of Cassation, Belgium's main court, has its seat in the Palace of Justice. Other important institutions in the City of Brussels are the Constitutional Court, the Council of State, the Court of Audit, the Royal Belgian Mint and the National Bank of Belgium.
The City of Brussels is also the capital of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community. The Flemish Parliament and Flemish Government have their seats in Brussels, and so do the Parliament of the French Community and the Government of the French Community.
Most sights in Brussels are fairly close together, within reasonable walking distance of each other. The oldest part of town can have uneven cobblestone roads, but the rest of the city is fairly easy to walk. Many roads in the old town are closed to cars. Brussels has many wet days, and in winter small amounts of snow can make the ground slushy, so water-resistant footwear is a must if you will be out walking all day.
A lot to see in Brussels such as :
Grand Place
Manneken Pis
Atomium
Mini-Europe
Royal Palace of Brussels
Parc du Cinquantenaire
Royal Gallery of Saint Hubert
St Michael and St Gudula Cathedral, Brussels
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Musical Instruments Museum
Jeanneke-Pis
Brussels Comic Book Museum
Brussels Town Hall
Law Courts of Brussels
Magritte Museum
Brussels Park
Museum of the City of Brussels
Mont des Arts
Coudenberg
Place du Grand Sablon
Autoworld
Place Royale
Marollen
Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History
Museum of Natural Sciences
Church of Our Blessed Lady of the Sablon
Het Zinneke
Bois de la Cambre
Art & History Museum
BELvue Museum
Halle Gate
Castle of Laeken
Place du Petit Sablon
Place du Jeu de Balle
Sablon
Place Sainte-Catherine - Sint-Katelijneplein
Leopold Park
Hôtel Solvay
Train World
Rue des Bouchers - Beenhouwersstraat
Botanical Garden of Brussels
Le Berlaymont
Église Notre-Dame de Laeken
ADAM - Brussels Design Museum
Parc de Laeken - Royal Parc
La Cambre Abbey
Place Poelaert - Poelaertplein
Musée Fin-de-Siècle Museum
Chapel Church
( Brussels - Belgium ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Brussels . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Brussels - Belgium
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Brussels In a Flash. An Introduction to the Belgian Capital
Mark Murphy begins his tour of Flanders in Brussels, the city of Mussels, Frites, Tintin, and a whole lot more. This tour of Belgium's capital city is a compact look at comics, restaurants, and culture that acts as an introduction to the city and to Flanders.
Nava's house in Belgium
This is a video of my new house in Mechelen, Belgium.
ComoComo Restaurant in Brussels
ComoComo, the hip new restaurant where you just pick a platter and go to town.
Ramada Brussels Woluwe movie 12 2014
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Martin's Manoir, a country house for an exceptional stay in Belgium
Martin’s Manoir is a magnificent Victorian country house that invites you for a unique experience. The hotel is superbly located on a hill, nestled in the middle of nature, and with a breath-taking view of Genval Lake. The distinctive furnishings are both comfortable and elegant – making the country house the ideal location for an exceptional stay, for unforgettable wedding parties and banquets, or for prestigious seminars and meetings.
10 minutes | Brussels Grand Place, Belgium
The Grand Place or Grote Markt (Dutch) is the central square of Brussels. It is surrounded by opulent guildhalls and two larger edifices, the city's Town Hall, and the Breadhouse building containing the Museum of the City of Brussels. The square is the most important tourist destination and most memorable landmark in Brussels. It measures 68 by 110 metres (223 by 361 ft), and it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
In the 10th century, Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine constructed a fort on Saint-Géry Island, the furthest inland point at which the Senne river was still navigable. This was the seed of what would become Brussels. By the end of the 11th century, an open-air marketplace was set up on a dried-up marsh near the fort that was surrounded by sandbanks. The market was called the Nedermerckt, or Lower Market.
At the beginning of the 13th century, three indoor markets were built on the northern edge of the Grand Place; a meat market, a bread market and a cloth market. These buildings, which belonged to the Duke of Brabant, allowed the wares to be showcased even in bad weather, but also allowed the Dukes to keep track of the storage and sale of goods, in order to collect taxes. Other buildings, made of wood or stone, enclosed the Grand Place.
Improvements to the Grand Place from the 14th century onwards would mark the rise in importance of local merchants and tradesmen relative to the nobility. Short on money, the Duke transferred control of mills and commerce to the local authorities. The city of Brussels, as with the neighbouring cities of Mechelen and Leuven constructed a large indoor cloth market to the south of the square. At this point, the square was still haphazardly laid out, and the buildings along the edges had a motley tangle of gardens and irregular additions. The city expropriated and demolished a number of buildings that clogged the Grand Place, and formally defined the edges of the square.
The Brussels City Hall was built on the south side of the square in stages between 1401 and 1455, and made the Grand Place the seat of municipal power. It towers 96 metres (315 ft) high, and is capped by a 4-metre (12 ft) statue of Saint Michael slaying a demon or devil. To counter this symbol of municipal power, from 1504 to 1536 the Duke of Brabant built a large building across from the city hall as symbol of ducal power. It was built on the site of the first cloth and bread markets, which were no longer in use, and it became known as the King's House (Middle Dutch: 's Conincxhuys), although no king has ever lived there. It is currently known as the Maison du roi (King's House) in French, though in Dutch it continues to be called the Broodhuis (Breadhouse), after the market whose place it took. Wealthy merchants and the increasingly powerful guilds of Brussels built houses around the edge of the square.
On August 13, 1695, a 70,000-strong French army under Marshal François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, began a bombardment of Brussels in an effort to draw the League of Augsburg's forces away from their siege on French-held Namur in what is now southern Belgium. The French launched a massive bombardment of the mostly defenseless city centre with cannons and mortars, setting it on fire and flattening the majority of the Grand Place and the surrounding city. Only the stone shell of the town hall and a few fragments of other buildings remained standing. That the town hall survived at all is ironic, as it was the principal target of the artillery fire.
The square was rebuilt in the following four years by the city's guilds. Their efforts were regulated by the city councillors and the Governor of Brussels, who required that their plans be submitted to the authorities for their approval. This helped to deliver a remarkably harmonious layout for the rebuilt Grand Place, despite the ostensibly clashing combination of Gothic, Baroque and Louis XIV styles.
The Grand Place continued to serve as a market until November 19, 1959, and it is still called the Great Market or Grote Markt in Dutch. Neighbouring streets still reflect the area's origins, named after the sellers of butter, cheese, herring, coal and so on. The Grand Place was named by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1998. One of the houses was owned by the brewers' guild, and is now the home of a brewers' museum.
The Grand Place was voted the most beautiful square in Europe in 2010. A survey by a Dutch website asked its users to rate different squares across Europe. Moscow’s Red Square and the Place Stanislas in Nancy, France, took second and third place.
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Viva’s Tours. Daily Free Walking Tour in English & Spanish: Brussels, the Sablon Area. at 16:30h.
Daily Free Tour: Tour of Sablon area & Marolles neighborhood, Brussels / Tour diario de la zona de Sablon y el barrio de Marolles, Bruselas.
Every day at 16:30h from Mont des Arts / Cada día a las 16:30h desde Mont des Arts.
In this tour we will walk out of central Brussels and discover what other neighbourhoods are hiding.
We will walk through the Sablon area, which is one of the most beautiful and exciting areas of the city. Starting in Le Mont Des Arts (the hill of the arts)
Viva's Tour is a non-profit organization that promotes the democratization of tourism while collaborating with other social and ecological projects.
We decided to create our tours as a free activity, but at the end of every tour, people can collaborate as they want and this collaboration helps our volunteers guides and is invested in social projects.
Tour Guides: David & Abelardo.
Music from: Barcelona Afrobeat International Orchestra & Tommy Tornado.
Video made in zeroanodino
Essence of Thailand
The Royal Thai Embassy has organized Essence of Thailand since 2006 with the continued support and cooperation of the Commune of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre.
This Thai food and culture festival has become an annual event that attracts growing numbers of Thai, Belgian and international visitors each year. Essence of Thailand showcases Thai food and culture with authentic Thai dishes and live performances on stage of Thai traditional dances and Muay Thai Kick-boxing Demonstrations. You can also enjoy many other activities such as Thai massages, fruit and vegetable carving and buy fresh ingredients to prepare your own Thai menu at home.
This year we look forward to welcoming you to the 9th edition of Essence of Thailand on Sunday 31 August 2014 at Place Dumon, Stockel!
งาน Essence of Thailand จัดขึ้นเป็นครั้งแรกเมื่อปี 2549 โดยความร่วมมือระหว่างสถานเอกอัครราชทูตไทย ณ กรุงบรัสเซลส์ และเมืองวอลูเว่ แซงปิเอร์ (Woluwe Saint Pierre) ตลอดระยะเวลา 8 ปีที่ผ่านมางาน Essence of Thailand ประสบความสำเร็จอย่างยิ่งจนกลายเป็นที่รอคอยของชาวเบลเยียมและชาวต่างชาติในบริเวณใกล้เคียง ภายในงานผู้เข้าร่วมจะได้พบกับกิจกรรมต่างๆ มากมาย อาทิ การสาธิตการทำอาหารไทย การแสดงรำไทยบนเวที การออกร้านขายผักสด อาหาร และขนมไทย การนวดแผนโบราณ การสาธิตมวยไทย ฯลฯ
ในปีนี้ งาน Essence of Thailand ครั้งที่ 9 จะจัดขึ้นในวันอาทิตย์ที่ 31 สิงหาคม 2557 ณ Place Dumon, Stockel