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Dating back to Brussels’ 1958 World Fair, one of the capital’s most famous sights, the Mont des Arts’ musical clock, is ringing once more.
Initially announced for early September this year, the long-awaited refurbishment to the iconic Lion’s Mound, a centrepiece of the Waterloo battlefield, has still not got off the ground.
A lot containing two satirical fake versions of Le Soir newspaper has been sold for €1,280 at Arenberg Auctions in Brussels.
Tickets are now on sale for two exhibitions on Pompeii staged in the Belgian capital from this autumn.
The Joseph Cuvelier Depot, one of the most visited buildings in Belgium's National Archives, has been inaccessible since mid-July because of a broken lift.
Following a long and complex legal procedure, two artefacts including a wooden sarcophagus found in Brussels a decade ago have been returned to Egypt.
While 8 May - Victory in Europe day - is regarded as a public holiday in many other European countries, Belgium places greater significance on 11 November instead, which is the day the 1918 Armist
The former Nazi prison camp Fort Breendonk near Mechelen is appealing to the public to donate miniature versions of its symbolic statue De Weerstander
How do people see the past and how can history and historical events help us to do so?
