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Some 40 stately homes across the country open their doors to the public in the third edition of the Vestalia festival from 6 to 14 June.
Two hundred years after the inauguration of the Lion’s Mound, the ultimate symbol of victory of the history-changing Battle of Waterloo has undergone a €665,000 renovation project.
The Belgian coast welcomed 50,000 day-trippers and 525,000 overnight visitors over the long and sunny weekend, when temperatures climbed to 30°C.
The Visit.brussels tourist office quietly closed its information desk at the BIP on Place Royale on 3 April due to budget cuts.
Two popular Brussels events, the BD Comic Strip Festival and the I Love Science Festival, have been cancelled this year following significant budget cuts to Visit.brussels.
Visit Brussels, the organisation responsible for promoting tourism and the image of the capital, is facing a significant budget cut of €5.7 million imposed by the Brussels region.
Plans are already underway to commemorate the centenary of the famous Last Post Ceremony at Menin Gate in Ypres.
A new large-scale First World War tourism campaign will commemorate the anniversaries of major memorial sites in the region of West Flanders.
Brussels has been recommended to foreign visitors as being well worth a trip this year, according to American news site CNN, which has included the city in its list of up-and-coming travel highlig
