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The Ardennes town of Bastogne welcomed around 100,000 people this weekend to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the
The First World War centenary years saw media attention around the world turn to Ypres and the battlefields of West Flanders. With that attention brought a huge increase in tourists.
A remarkable collection of manuscripts assembled by Irish friars living in Leuven in the 17th century has been reunited, thanks to an international digitisation project.
Belgium is marking the 100th anniversary of its liberation from Nazi occupation during WWII with a year-long calendar of events.
Archaeological work being done behind Sint-Baafs Cathedral in Ghent has turned up some 800 intact skeletons, many of them children.
One of the surprise crowd-pleasers at last year’s International Francophone Film Festival (Fiff) was the animation Leopold, King of the Belgians.
The epic battle of Waterloo, the killing fields of World War One in Flanders, the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes… Belgium’s soil is indelibly marked with conflict.
Last month saw the 450th anniversary of the death of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, an anniversary that has been marked with a year-long programme events around Flanders and Brussels dedicated to
150 years ago, the first trams appeared on Brussels’ streets.
