The statue of the “pissing boy,” as he is commonly called, has led a long and not always easy life, surviving the bombardment of Brussels in 1695 and various wear and tear over the centuries.

Charles’s story began on February 24, 1500, at the Prinsenhof Palace in Ghent when he was born as the son of Philip the Fair, ruler of the Habsburg Netherlands and Joanna of Castile, daughter of ...

This week, Liverpool FC are back in Brussels for only the second time since the deadly Heysel Stadium Disaster on 29 May 1985 – where 39 football fans were killed because of fan trouble caused by ...

"Usually we use begonias but this year we went for dahlias," Houba said. "This is a very strong flower that exists in many different colours, which is easier to use for the design of the flower carpet ...

Underlining this view is the Boghossian Foundation’s exhibition, Echoes of Art Deco (an excellent title for a term that is evocative rather than self-explanatory). The foundation’s home, the ...

Just like everything else in Belgium, prostitution is a complicated topic. With different rules in different parts of the country, and no clear message on what is and what isn’t allowed, a lot of ...

Imagine a modern European home in 2050. Solar panels on every roof for local energy generation, state-of-the-art insulation maintaining electric heating or air conditioning for days at a time and ...

Freedom of expression and the protection of journalists are among the fundamental principles in the EU but when they are ...

Rwanda had been a German colony since 1885, but the Belgians drove them out in 1916 during the First World War, and in 1924, the League of Nations officially gave Belgium a mandate over Ruanda-Urundi ...

Befimmo is Belgium’s largest non-listed office real estate company and owns approximately 850,000 square meters of office space across the country. In 2006, the Belgian government sold 62 buildings to ...

The Exposition Internationale de 1930 de Liège, commemorating a century of Belgian independence, had only recently transformed the landscape with promenades, pavilions and modernist façades. Before ...

On a scale of a Mesopotamian ziggurat, it has to be seen to be believed. The gargantuan complex looms from a hill over the old city and is thought to have inspired Adolf Hitler’s madcap Germania plans ...