But what once was a Belgian and Dutch speciality saved for Sinterklaas has now become a global sensation with manufacturers shipping the biscuits worldwide. Brussels biscuit maker Maison Dandoy is one ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the station has been the subject of unqualified headlines calling it ‘the most dangerous station in Europe’, the Midi Quarter is in urgent need of revitalisation, finding itself landlocked on ...

In the spring, as the coronavirus pandemic reached Belgium and health care workers triaged and treated the throngs of patients sickened by the novel virus, stacks of files began piling up on Jan ...

And as government officials had their eyes locked on health care and the economy and citizens, retreating indoors, witnessed an unknown virus upend their everyday lives, Willems and his colleagues saw ...

The nickname "Atomic Boy" came as a joke but stuck as a brand. "Better than having my name attached to a corruption scandal or a tax," he winks, recounting the interview of Mathieu Buxant on Bel RTL – ...

Fit for royalty – a standard room is €700 and penthouses up to €21,000 per night – the Corinthia is aptly located on Rue Royale. “The hotel chain aims to attract a new kind of clientele to Brussels, ...

Beyond Europe, Charles oversaw the Spanish conquest of the New World, including the defeat of the Aztec and Inca empires. As the conquistadors imposed themselves, and indigenous populations were ...

"The Bourse has always been a very closed building which people couldn’t enter easily, despite the fact that it is located in the midst of these very central avenues in Brussels, where a lot of people ...

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.

A large artwork now decorates the floors at the centre of the main hall, designed by Brussels' very own Valérie Mannaerts, who took inspiration from elements of stucco and elaborated them in pink ...