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

• 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

• 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

• 24/08-27/10/13 Contour 2013 - 6th biennial of Moving Scenes
• 25/08+01/09/13 Hanswijkcavalcade Mechelen

• 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

• 02+03/02/13 Beerfestival
• 15+17+18+23+24/08/13 Canal feast in the centre of Bruges

• 27+28/04/13 Zythos beerfestival
• 31/10/13-23/02/14 Expo Michiel Coxcie, Flemish Rafaël at the Museum M

• 19+20/10/13 Gin festival

• 29/06-17/11/13 Expo Dada and Surrealism in Brussels, Paris and London at the MuZee