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Belgium is marking the 100th anniversary of its liberation from Nazi occupation during WWII with a year-long calendar of events.
Archaeological work being done behind Sint-Baafs Cathedral in Ghent has turned up some 800 intact skeletons, many of them children.
One of the surprise crowd-pleasers at last year’s International Francophone Film Festival (Fiff) was the animation Leopold, King of the Belgians.
The epic battle of Waterloo, the killing fields of World War One in Flanders, the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes… Belgium’s soil is indelibly marked with conflict.
Last month saw the 450th anniversary of the death of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, an anniversary that has been marked with a year-long programme events around Flanders and Brussels dedicated to
150 years ago, the first trams appeared on Brussels’ streets.
On 2 September, Belgium marks 75 years since the Allied troops began the liberation of Belgium from German occupation. It was the beginning of the end of the Second World War.
Every generation has its protest movements - and an exhibition at Brussels' House of European History explores four such periods through a rich collection of physical objects and historic audiovis
It was one of the most spectacular finds on the Waterloo battlefield for years: more than two centuries after the 1815 clash that ended Napoleon Bonaparte’s reign, two British army veterans
