Lifestyle

Where have the Brussels chestnut sellers gone?

23 July 2024

Until a few decades ago, every year starting on 2 October, the deliciously sweet smell of roasted chestnuts spread across the central avenues and many a square in Brussels.

25 fine Belgian wines according to Gault&Millau

04 July 2024

On a beautiful summer’s day, there’s nothing like a glass of fine Belgian wine to quench your thirst, are we right?

Enter our photo contest!

25 June 2024

2024, an even-numbered year, means the return of the Focus on Belgium photo contest. Send in your photos and win one of the many prizes!

Brussels really is a cycling Walhalla

20 June 2024

It started with the 8th edition of the BXL Tour and it finished with the Tour of Belgium: Brussels was the cycling hotspot of the country last weekend.

Brussels Pride Week is back in full swing

16 May 2024

It’s Pride Week in Brussels, with all kinds of LGBTQI+ events throughout the capital, culminating in the Brussels Pride on 18 May.

Belgian creativity and well-being

Belgium is an open society founded on tolerance. Its central position in Europe, its situation at the confluence between the Latin and Germanic worlds, its multilingualism and its pioneering political, social and religious freedoms have contributed to its cosmopolitan and friendly character.

Belgians like to enjoy life and make sure they do so! So nowhere else will you find so many regional, authentic and colourful beers, with such a contrasting range of tastes and smells. As for the Belgian chocolatiers, they offer products of unrivalled quality and flavour with a well-established world famous reputation. Waffles, spéculoos biscuits, cuberdon candies... Belgium has much to offer food lovers, not to mention its famous chips! Belgium is also the country with the most Michelin-starred restaurants per km² in the world.

Modern and trend-setting, Belgians love beauty. Fashion, furniture and room accessories, Belgian designers adore mixing genres and muddying the waters by tearing down borders! Internationally recognised, Belgian artists have long infiltrated the stores on the smartest avenues of capital cities the world over.

A country of freedoms and innovations, life is good in Belgium where we know how to welcome you so you can discover a lifestyle that's both comfortable and easy-going.

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