About Belgium
Regions and cities
- Flanders : Antwerp, Bruges, Ghent, Mechelen, Leuven, Hasselt
- Wallonia : Namur, Liège, Dinant, Tournai, Mons
- Brussels : capital of Europe
- The Belgian Coast : Ostend, De Panne, Knokke
Typical
- Beer, chocolates, french fries
- Diamonds
- Belfries, castles and beguinages
- Comic strips
- Rubens, Magritte, Ensor, Delvaux, Horta, Flemish Primitives
- Atomium, Manneken Pis
Some interesting events 2013-2014
The Great War Centenary (1914-1918) in Flanders
Antwerp
- 27/09/13 Opening new museum Red Star Line
- 02/02/13-31/12/16 The Golden Cabinet - Royal Museum at the Rockox House
- 16/03-01/09/13 Expo Modern Art - Avant-Garde at the Koningin Fabiolazaal
- 08/09/13-26/01/14 Expo Happy Birthday Dear Academy at the MAS museum
Brussels
- 22/03-07/07/13 Retrospective Constantin Meunier at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts
- 05/04-05/05/13 Flowershow Floralia next to the Castle of Groot-Bijgaarden
- 07/05/13 Opening of the new museum Fin de Siècle
- 13/09/13-12/01/14 Retrospective Henri Van de Velde at the Royal Museum of Art and History
- 11/10/13-26/01/14 Expo The Inheritance of Rogier van der Weyden at the Royal Museumof Fine Arts
- 14-17/08/14 Flower Carpet on the Grand'Place
- 25/09/14-04/01/15 Expo Sensation, Sensuality, Rubenism - From van Dyck to Picasso at Bozar
Mechelen
- 24/08-27/10/13 Contour 2013 - 6th biennial of Moving Scenes
- 25/08+01/09/13 Hanswijkcavalcade Mechelen
Ghent
- 02/03-30/06/13 Expo Modernism in Belgium at the Museum of Fine Arts
- 02/03-30/06/13 Beyond Modernism at the SMAK museum
- 20-29/07/13 Festival of Ghent
Bruges
- 02+03/02/13 Beerfestival
- 15+17+18+23+24/08/13 Canal feast in the centre of Bruges
Leuven
- 27+28/04/13 Zythos beerfestival
- 31/10/13-23/02/14 Expo Michiel Coxcie, Flemish Rafaël at the Museum M
Hasselt
Oostende
- 29/06-17/11/13 Expo Dada and Surrealism in Brussels, Paris and London at the MuZee
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