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Belgium gives back stolen Mayan mask to Guatemala

Belgium has returned to its rightful home an ancient Mayan mask more than 1,000 years old. The green jade treasure had been stolen and exported illegally to Belgium by international traffickers, the Guatemalan minister of foreign affairs Sandra Erica Jovel Polanco said. The mask dates from the...

2020 Brussels Cello Festival | CLOSING CONCERT (collaboration with the United Nations and Pau Casals Foundation)

Submitted by Belgium Cello S... on Wed, 09/16/2020 - 09:12

The Closing Concert of the 2020 Brussels Cello Festival will feature all the cellists of the festival together on stage with the student participants for a celebration of peace and humanity.

2020 Brussels Cello Festival | Beethoven Cycle Part III

Submitted by Belgium Cello S... on Wed, 09/16/2020 - 09:06

The third evening of the 2020 Brussels Cello Festival will feature cellists Mischa Maisky, Victor Julien-Laferriere, and Anne Gastinel in the Beethoven Cycle Part III:

Variations WoO 46 in Eb major (1801)
Mischa Maisky, cello
Lily Maisky, piano

Sonata No. 4 in C major (1815)
Victor Julien-Laferriere, cello
Stephane Ginsburgh, piano

Sonata No. 5 in D major (1815)
Anne Gastinel, cello
Jerome Ducros, piano

2020 Brussels Cello Festival | Beethoven Cycle Part II

Submitted by Belgium Cello S... on Wed, 09/16/2020 - 09:03

The second evening of the 2020 Brussels Cello Festival will feature cellists Bruno Philippe and Jan Vogler in the Beethoven Cycle Part II:

Variations Op. 66 in F major (1798)
Bruno Philippe, cello
Jerome Ducros, piano

Sonata No. 3 in A major(1809)
Jan Vogler, cello
Muhiddin Durruoglu, piano

Due to COVID regulations, this program will be presented TWICE this evening (without intermission), at 18:00 and again at 21:00.

VERY LIMITED TICKETS - please reserve your seats now!

2020 Brussels Cello Festival | Beethoven Cycle Part I (Opening Night)

Submitted by Belgium Cello S... on Wed, 09/16/2020 - 08:42

Opening Night of the 2020 Brussels Cello Festival will feature cellists Jens Peter Maintz, Han Bin Yoon, and Marie Hallynck in the Beethoven Cycle Part I: 

Variations WoO 45 in G major (1796)
Jens Peter Maintz, cello
Stephane Ginsburgh, piano 

Everything you want to know about Brussels in new online course

Have you ever noticed on those expat Facebook groups that some people absolutely love Brussels’ quirky personality traits and others hate them? That drivers and cyclists are always at each other’s throats? That the one thing everyone agrees on is that construction projects are endless? Let the...

Bruges’ digital twin city will show effects of changes before they are made

Town twinning usually means two towns in different countries building a bond of friendship. Bruges has other ideas. It has commissioned a copy of itself – a digital urban twin – from high-tech research centre imec, so that it can get to know itself even better than before. Cities are complex...

Car ownership in Belgium drops for first time since Second World War

The "car is king" culture, so prevalent in Belgium, especially from the 1950s, leading for example to the construction of Brussels’ tunnels to facilitate access to Expo 58, may be coming to an end. This year, for the first time since the second world war, the number of private cars has dropped,...

Belgium boasts the most powerful passport

Belgian passport holders can travel freely to 124 countries, 91 of them without a visa, according to the Passport Index 2020, the most out of all countries worldwide. Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Austria also enjoy unrestricted foreign journeys. But residents from these countries...

Record-breaking heat wave returns to Belgium

Uccle, Brussels – home of Belgium’s Royal Meteorological Institute (IRM) – saw temperatures soar to 31.6°C yesterday. It is the hottest 14 September on record, announced the IRM’s meteorologist David Dehenauw on Twitter. And 15 September will be even hotter, with predictions of 33°C, even 34°C made...

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