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Grand Place di Bruxelles. Beautiful central square in Bruxelles. It is surrounded by opulent guildhalls and two larger edifices, the city's Town Hall, and the King's House (Maison du Roi) or Breadhouse building containing the Museum of the City of Brussels.The square measures 68 by 110 metres. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Grand Place is occupied on each side by a number of guild houses, in addition to a few private houses. The strongly structured facades with their rich sculptural decoration and their lavishly designed gables, with pilasters and balustrades, are based on Italian Baroque with some Flemish influences.There are several Corporation Houses: Le Roy d'Espagne - House of the Corporation of Bakers, La Brouette - House of Greasers, Le Sac - House of the Corporation of Carpenters, La Louve - House of the Oath of Archers, Le Cornet - House of the Boatmen, L'Étoile - House of the Amman, memorial of the hero Everard 't Serclaes, Le Cygne, L'Arbre d'or - House of the Brewers, House of the Dukes of Brabant.
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Cathedral of St Michele and St Gudula. Gothic towers, windows in renaissance style, architectulas elements of XV sec in front, originallu a small church of 1000 dedicated to St Michele Arcangelo.
From 1047 preserves the relics of St Gudula and has since taken over the current name. In 1200 the renovations and enlargement by the duke of Brabant, it became a real cathedral began three hundred years later under the reign of Emperor Charles V. Even today in the cathedral are held ceremonies related to members of the ruling family. Site of the Cathedral of St Michele and St Gudula
Address: Place Sainte-Gudule - map.
Time: Mo-Fri 7.30-18, Sat 7.30-15.30, Sun 14-18
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Atomium.
Steel monument in the Heysel Park, in the northern suburbs of Brussels, of particular structure representing the 9 atoms of a unitary cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times: a reference to the sciences and uses of the atom.
102 meters high, made up of 9 spheres with a diameter of 18 meters, connected by escalators, suitable for hosting exhibitions, conventions, concerts, conferences, exhibitions. Built for the 1958 International Exposition. Nice city view. At the top there is a panoramic restaurant. Site of Atomium
Address: Square de l'Atomium, 1020 Bruxelles.
How to get there: 5 minutes by foot from metro station Heysel/Heizel (line 6) just in front of Mini-Europe.
Time: daily from 10 to 18 (ticket office closes at 17.30).
Ticket: Adults 15 E, over 65 13 E, under 17 8 E, Students a 8 E. Groups mode than 20 adults 13 E, over 65 11 E, under 17 6 E. Joint ticket with Mini-Europe: Adults 27,50, over 65 25,70 E, under 17 and students 21,10 E. Groups mh. than 20 adults 23,70 E, over 65 17,80 E, under 17 12,20 E.
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Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.
Museums located in the area called Coudenberg, consist of four different collections, two in museum buildings (Museum of Ancient Art and Museum of Modern Art), two in other independent buildings, the Constantin Meunier Museum and the Antoine Wiertz Museum, pi & ugrave; small and dedicated in particular to Belgium. The smaller and dedicated to national art exhibition with over 1000 works, and from around the world with 20000 paintings, drawings and sculptures.
Museum of Ancient Art (XV-XVIII sec) with flamish works, by Rogier van der Weyden, Pieter Bruegel, Robert Campin, Petrus Christus, Dirk Bouts, Hans Memling and Bosch, Antoon van Dyck and Jacob Jordaens. A hall for Bruegel, one for Rubens and another one for Henri de Braekeleer.
Museum of Modern Art (XIX-XX sec). From Neoclassicism by Jacques-Louis David (Assassination of Marat) to Romanticism by Delacroix, from Van Gogh, to Gauguin and De Chirico.
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Site of Royal Museums of Fine Arts
Address: Rue de la Régénce, 3.
How to get there: Metro - Central Station or Park, lines 1 and 5. Tram: Royale, lines 92 and 94. Bus: Royale, lines 27, 38, 71 and 95.
Time: Tu - Fri 10-17, Sat-Sun 11-18.
Tickets: Adults: 10 E (unique ticket with Museum Magritte: 15 E), young from 6 to 26: 3 E (unique ticket with Museum Magritte: 5 E), over 65: 8 E (unique ticket with Museum Magritte: 10 E)
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Magritte Museum. About 200 work of the surrealist artist, painting, drawings, photos, sculpture, and film.
Magritte Museum
Address: Rue de la Régénce, 3.
How to get. Metro - Central Station o Park, lines 1 and 5. Tram: Royale, lines 92 and 94. Bus: Royale, lines 27, 38, 71 e 95.
Ticket: Adults: 10 E (Ticket unique with Museum of Fine Arts: 15 E), young from 6 to 26: 3 E (Ticket unique with Museum of Fine Arts: 5 E), over 65: 8 E (Ticket unique with Museum of Fine Arts: 10 E)
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Museum of Musical Instruments. (Musée des instruments de musique, MIM) exposes more than 7,000 musical instruments made over the centuries, from the Middle Ages to today.
The museum is housed in a building called Old England, an architectural jewel of the Art Nouveau, created in 1899 to house department stores.
Museum of Musical Instruments site
Address: Rue Montagne de la Cour 2.
Time: Tu-Thu 9.30 - 17, Sat-Sun 10 - 17.
How to get: Metro - Central Station o Park, lines 1 and 5. Tram: Royale, lines 92 and 93 stop Royale. Bus: Royale, lines 27, 38, 71 and 95..
Ticket: entrance Adults 10 E, over 65 8 E, Art students and others reduced 4 E
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Belvue Museum. Dedicated to the history of Belgium from the 1830 Revolution to the creation of the current Federal State. Located near the Royal Palace on the ruins of the Coudenberg Palace. Before becoming a museum, the building was a luxury hotel, later used as a residence for members of the royal family. The collection includes more than 1,500 documents, historical photographs and films, as well as other objects that helped illustrate the main stages of the country's history, such as the struggle for universal suffrage, popular revolts, the birth of the European institutions, the Industrial Revolution or the world wars .
Through the museum you can; access the ruins of the Ducal Palace in Coudenberg, a building destroyed in the fire of 1731.
Belvue Museum site
Address: Place des Palais 7.
Time: Mo (only groups with reservation) 9.30-17, Tu-Thu 9.30 - 17, Sat-Su 10 - 18.
How to get: Metro - Central Station o Park, lines 1 and 5. Tram: Royale, lines 92 and 93 stop Royale. Bus: Royale, lines 27, 38, 71 and 95.
Ticket: entrance Adults 7 E, over 65 6 E, other reduced 5 E, under 18 and We afternoon free
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Museum of Comics. Belgium is a the homeland of comics, designers of the Smurfs, Tintin, Lucky Luke, Zagor and many other characters. The comic is defined as the Ninth Belgian Art. You will find the Belgian Center of Comic and Casa del Fumetto.
The Belgian Center of Comics in an Art Nouveau building houses a permanent exhibition of Belgian comics, and a reading room crammed with 30,000 books in fifteen different languages.
Belgian Center of Comics site
Throughout Brussels there are many characters painted on the walls of the houses. A tourist route called 'Cartoon Route' in the city center leads to the discovery of 30 giant murals with the most famous heroes of the world of comics.
Address: Centro Belga del Fumetto, Rue des Sables 20.
Time: Tu-Su from 10 to 18.
Ticket: Adults 8 E, over 65 6 E, reduced 6 E, under 12 3. Free with Brusselscard. Groups(min 15) Adults 6 E.
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Museum of Natural Sciences. It is dedicated to natural history and is part of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. Remarkable are 30 skeletons of Iguanodon fossils, discovered in 1878 in Bernissart, Belgium, and the bone Ishango, discovered in 1960 by Jean de Heinzelin de Braucourt in the Belgian Congo. The Dinosaur Room is the largest museum hall in the world completely dedicated to dinosaurs. The museum also houses a research department and a depart. Museum of Natural Sciences site
Address: Rue Vautier 29.
Time: Tu-Thu 9.30 - 17, Sat-Su 10 - 18.
How to get:
Metro - stop Maelbeek/Maalbeek, lines 1 and 5, then 10 minutes by foot; stop Trone/Troon, lines 2 e 6, then 10 minutes by foot.
Bus - stop Idalie o Luxembourg, lines 38 oe 95, then 5 minutes by foot; stop Museum, lines 34 or 80, in front of the museum.
Ticket: entrance Adults 7 E, over 65 and Students 6 E
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Ilot Sacré (Sacre Island).
Quadrilateral behind the Grand Place, in the center of Brussels. A maze of narrow streets very characteristic even if very touristy, with coffees and restaurants (Rue des Bouchers) and shops. Part of Brussels independent from the rest of the city and which has been self-governing since 1960.
Covered gallery Saint-Hubert Galleries, 200 meters built in half '800. In the first decades after construction, the gallery became a literary center: at the 'Caffè de la Renaissance' today' Taverne du Passage', French artists and writers met, such as Baudelaire, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Apollinaire and Verlaine.
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District Sablon. Place du Sablon, once outside the city walls, it takes its name from the yellow sand that lies around Brussels. Today the area is one of the most elegant of the Belgian capital. There is the cathedral of Notre Dame du Sablon, a Gothic masterpiece, and Wittamer, the most famous antique Brussels pastry famous for the gauffres, the stock exchange, neoclassical structure built in 1873, the Galerie Royales Saint-Hubert, composed of the Galerie de la Reine, the Galerie du Roi and the Galerie du Price, the Royal Theater of the Mint and the church medieval of Saint-Nicolas. The Fontatna of the Counts of Egmont and d'Hornes, with 48 bronze columns in Art Nouveau style, representing the corporations, Palazzo Egmont, also the Maison du Chocolat brought by Marcolini, producer of the famous Brussels pralines. On the weekends at the Place du Sablon antiques market.
How to get: Metro Namur/Luisa.
Maison du Chocolat: Grand Place, Rue de la Tete d'Or 9, open Tu-Su 10-16.30, entrance Adults 5,50 E, reduced 4,50 E
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Museum of Military History.
Royal Museum of the Army and Military History is a museum of war and military history of Belgium located in the Cinquantenaire park. In front of the other two museums: the Cinquantenaire and the Autoworld museum.
Born at the time of the world exhibition in 1910 by a young officer, Louis Leconte, he collected about 9000 objects that illustrate the military past of Belgium. The collection, housed in the buildings of the former Military Academy at the Abbey of La Cambre, includes a section of military history, archives and library, press room and map room, Air and Space sections, armored vehicles, collections of weapons and armor, Marina. Treats conservation, restoration and presentation.
It has five large exhibition galleries of around 40,000.
Museum of Military History site
Address: Parc du Cinquantenaire, Jubelpark 3.
Time: Tu-Su 9 - 17.
How to get:
Metro - stop Merode or Schuman, lines 1 and 5, then 10 minuts by foot.
Tram - stop Merode, lines 61, 81, then 10 minuts by foot.
Bus - stop Schuman, lines 12, 21, 22, 36, 60, 79 or 80; stop Merode, lines 22, 27, 80, then 10 minuts by foot.
Ticket: entrance Adults 5 E, over 65 and Students 4 E
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Statue Manneken Pis.
One of the symbols of the city of Brussels, sculpted by Jerome Duquesnoy (1619), the bronze subject of a fountain depicting 'l'enfant qui pisse'. From a legend about the little Julien he wants it as rescuer of the city, he piped on the fuse of a bomb, so saving Brussels.
Address: at the crossing Rue de l'Étuve/Stoofstraat and Rue du Chene/Eikstraat.
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Museum of fashion and lace.
Brussels has a long tradition of fashion, textiles, design and natural lace since the twelfth century. The Museum of Fashion and Lace collects the rich heritage and history of fabrics in Brussels, with dresses and laces, accessories, embroidery, antique and contemporary lace, costumes, fashion items.
Museum of fashion and lace site
Address: Rue de la Violette 12.
Time: martedì-domenica 10 - 17.
How to get: Metro - stop Gare Centrale or De Brouckère, lines 1 and 5.
Tram - stazione Bourse, lines 3, 4, 31 and 32.
Bus - lines 48, 95.
Ticket: entrance Adults 8 E, over 65 6 E, Students 4 E
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Brewery.
Brewery Cantillon and the Brussels Museum of the Gueuze. Belgian brewery with a family tradition, the most famous Brussels, located in Anderlecht (a suburb of Brussels), since 1900 dedicated almost exclusively to the production of Lambic beers. Use only organic cereals. Brewery site
Address: rue Gheude 56, 1070 Brussels (Anderlecht). Time: Mo-Sat 10 - 16, except Wed.
Visits with taste a 7 E Adults, 6 E reduced over 65 under 21.
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