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Belgium’s fame as a paradise for chocolate lovers is largely thanks to the praline, invented by Jean Neuhaus.
Students in the highest three years of primary school and the first year of secondary school will get the unprecedented opportunity to be archaeologists for a day this autumn.
More than 120,000 spectators gathered earlier this month to commemorate the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, but not all were pleased with the re-enactment event.
In 1815 the municipality of Waterloo consisted of a burgeoning cluster of hamlets.
The capital is in party mode this weekend as the annual Iris Festival takes over city centre streets.
The BELvue Museum in Brussels (pictured), which recounts the history of Belgium, has launched a new project that will see its permanent exhibition completely altered.
There are few Americans who haven’t heard of Bastogne, the strategic border town that was snowed in and surrounded by the German army in its final large-scale offensive of the war.
How many tourists in Brussels know that the two most famous Brontë sisters, Charlotte and Emily, lived here for a time?
