The city of Namur has unveiled a new design for the underground guided tours at the Citadel. The tours cover 500m of the seven kilometres of tunnels, which were built over the centuries for military purposes. The new scenography follows renovation works in 2015 and 2016 and cost €1.125 million. The...

Cefaly Technology, based in Seraing near Liège, continues to make headway internationally with the spread of its technology for treating migraines. Cefaly is used externally to stimulate the trigeminal nerve with micro-pulses, using an electrode attached to the patient’s forehead. Repeated clinical...

More people than ever before are planning to fly to foreign destinations for the autumn school holiday. Airlines and tour operators are reporting that most holidaymakers are heading for warmer climates. The numbers have been rising steadily over the last few years, and, according to a report by VRT...

Thomas Cooks Airlines Belgium (TCAB) is making its final flight this Friday evening, from Tenerife to Brussels, reports the Belgian magazine Trends tendance. For the past 15 years, the company has been transporting holidaymakers for Thomas Cook, Neckermann and Pegase. From Saturday, Brussels...

A man caught smuggling 334 protected tortoises from Morocco to Belgium has been jailed for nine months and ordered to pay €100,000 in damages. The brightly coloured spur-thighed tortoises were found last year - and since then none of them has survived. "They caught various infections during...

Anneessens pre-metro station in central Brussels will keep its existing identity and not be renamed Toots Thielemans, after negative reactions by local residents and some city officials. Brussels mobility minister Pascal Smet said he would abandon the plan to rename the station in honour of the...

The Filem’on international film festival for young audiences is back for an 11th edition. More than 130 films, in all formats and of all genres for children and teens between six and 16, will be screened at Cinemas Aventure and Galeries, the Weils, Cinematek, Nova and other venues such as schools...

The Brussels state secretary charged with public waste, Fadila Laanan, has responded to questions regarding recent news that sorted recycling in Brussels was recently burned along with regular rubbish. According to Laanan, measures have previously been taken to improve waste management, and this...

A new promenade for pedestrians and cyclists is planned in Brussels to link Luxembourg station with the fairly new Germoir train station. This will provide a convenient car-free shortcut from Ixelles to the European quarter. Works have already begun on the 450-metre walkway, which runs along the...

Lonely Planet , one of the most popular series of travel guides in the world, has named Antwerp as one of the Top 10 Cities to visit in 2018. Noting that it was once “northern Europe’s greatest city,” the guide now call it “one of its best-kept secrets”. On the list with cities like Seville in...