Brussels - information about the city

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Brussels - tourist attractions

	Belgian Comic Strip Center	The Belgian Comic Strip Center (Dutch: Belgisch Centrum voor het Beeldverhaal; French: Centre belge de la Bande dessinée ) chronicles the history of Belgian comics. Housed in a former department store in Brussels ' business district, it exhibits examples of comic strips in French, Dutch and English....
	Hôtel Tassel	The Hotel Tassel (French: Hôtel Tassel; Dutch: Hotel Tassel) is a townhouse built by Victor Horta in Brussels for the Belgian scientist and professor Emile Tassel in 1893-1894. It is generally considered as the first ever truely Art Nouveau building, because of its highly innovative plan and its gro...
	Horta Museum	The Horta Museum (French: Musée Horta; Dutch: Hortamuseum) is a museum dedicated to the life and work of the Belgian Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta and his time. The museum is housed in Horta's former house and atelier, Maison & Atelier Horta (1898), in the Brussels municipality of Saint-Gilles....
	Stoclet Palace	The Stoclet Palace (French: Palais Stoclet; Dutch: Stocletpaleis) is a private mansion built by architect Josef Hoffmann between 1905 and 1911 in Brussels, Belgium, for a banker and art lover Adolphe Stoclet. Considered Hoffmann's masterpiece, the Stoclet's house is one of the most refined and luxur...
	Maison Autrique	The Autrique House (French: Maison Autrique; Dutch: Autrique Huis) was the first townhouse built by Victor Horta in the Art Nouveau style. This house built in 1893 represents an essential step in the evolution of the greatest Belgian architect. In many ways it was an innovative dwelling although it ...
	Heysel Plateau	The Heysel Exhibition Park is the place in the north of the centre of Brussels, Belgium, where the Brussels International Exposition (1935) and the Expo '58 took place. The Atomium, built for the World's Fair of 1958, is the most impressive monument in the Heysel Park. The Centenary Palace is one o...
	De Munt / La Monnaie	Le Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie (la Monnaie; French) or the Koninklijke Muntschouwburg (de Munt; Dutch) (both meaning Royal Theatre of the Mint) is a theatre in Brussels, Belgium. Today the National Opera of Belgium, a federal institution, takes the name of the theatre in which it is housed. Therefor...
	Mini-Europe	Mini-Europe is a miniature park located in Bruparck at the foot of the Atomium in Brussels, Belgium. Mini-Europe has the reproductions of the most attractive monuments in the European Union on show, at a scale of 1:25. Roughly 80 cities and 350 buildings are represented. The park is renowned for the...
	Royal Palace of Brussels	The Royal Palace of Brussels (French: Palais Royal de Bruxelles; Dutch: Koninklijk Paleis van Brussel) is the official palace of the King of the Belgians in the centre of the nation's capital Brussels. However it is not used as a royal residence, as the king and his family live in the Royal Castle o...
	Botanical Garden of Brussels	The Botanical Garden of Brussels stands on Rue Royale in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, near the Northern Quarter financial district in Brussels. Originally founded in 1826 and partly designed by architect Tilman-François Suys, the main orangery (Le Botanique) is composed of a central rotunda with a dome, ...