The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will present a special treat for art lovers with the first major retrospective in the U.S. devoted to the drawings of the great Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens.

As part of the festivities surrounding Belgium’s 175th anniversary, the Royal Museums of Art and History shed light on the evolution of Belgium’s decorative arts.

Annually since the year 1150, the historic city of Bruges has been attracting thousands of visitors to one of the great religious pageants in Europe, the Holy Blood Procession.

The Royal Greenhouses in Laeken cover six acres of neoclassical rotundas, domes and galleries. Twenty full time gardeners tend the giant ferns, fruit-bearing banana trees, grottoes, glades and grassy vistas.

The origins of the Battle of Lumecon date back to a medieval play played by the Fraternity of Saint George founded in 1380.

The Passage 44 Auditorium and the Cinema Nova in Brussels will for the 23rd time the rendezvous for lovers of thrillers and science-fiction genre films.

As the year’s end draws near, the Christmas markets blossom in many cities and towns in Belgium. The festivities really begin with St. Nicholas on December 6th. Shops display holiday treats such as marzipan, flat hard cakes known as ‘klaasjes’ and ‘speculoos’, a hard gingerbread molded in the form of St. Nicholas. In all major [...]

WaterkAnt is all about lively, authentic sports events by the water during the weekends of 9/10 and 16/17 October. During the first weekend visitors will be able to sample the following program in the Willem Dock: Open Piers, an exhibition of 35 new yachts; the Water Sports Club Cup, a sailing regatta of Finn Class boats; the Woodies, the shiny and noisy old timers of motor sports.