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Cancelled last year due to coronavirus, the corny but wonderful Bal National, on the eve of Belgium’s national day, has been cancelled for a second consecutive year.
Don’t say Carolus V, say Brussels Renaissance Festival. The summer festival inspired by Charles V’s presence in what is now the capital of Europe has changed its name.
The Grand Place, that beautiful square that we all know in the centre of Brussels, has served many functions throughout the years. Its buildings date from the 17th century.
A newly colourised and digitised film of Brussels from 1908 provides an enhanced glimpse into a time when horses, carriages and electric trams dominated the streets of the Belgian capital, a city
Brussels’ House of European History has expanded, with the opening of a new permanent exhibition space looking at the challenges facing Europe today.
In a bid to make the commemorations of the bicentenary of the death of Napoleon accessible to all, the Wellington Museum in Waterloo is presenting an exhibition entirely made of customised P
A farmer in Hainaut province moved the stone marker indicating the border between Belgium and France, making Belgium a couple of metres bigger.
Belgian director Jan Verheyen is preparing to make a new movie about one of the deadliest disasters in Belgian peace-time history: the L’Innovation department store fire of 1967.
