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The Grand Place (French: Grand-Place or Grand Place, Dutch: Grote Markt) is the central market square of Brussels. It is surrounded by guild houses, the city's spectacular Town Hall and the Breadhouse (Dutch: ''Broodhuis'', French: ''Maison du Roi''). The square is the most important tourist destination and most memorable landmark in Brussels next to the Atomium. (...)
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The small ring of Brussels (, ) is series of roadways in downtown Brussels surrounding the historic city centre. It was built on the site of the Brussels's second set of walls, built in the 16th century, after they were torn down. The small ring and the area within it are often called the pentagon, as it has a pentagonal shape. The small ring is about 8 km long (...)
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Bruxelles-Central / Brussel-Centraal (Brussels Central) is a railway station in Brussels, the capital city of Belgium. Designed by Victor Horta and inaugurated in 1952 as part of the North-South Junction project to connect the main railway lines in Brussels, it lies midway between the other main stations Bruxelles-Midi / Brussel-Zuid and Bruxelles-Nord / Brussel-Noord (...)
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Brussels (, ; , ; , ) is the capital of Belgium, and the administrative heart of the European Union.http://www.brussels.org/ Growing from a 10th century fortress town founded by Charlemagne's grandsonhttp://www.brussels.org/history/ into the unofficial "Capital of Europe"http://www.kent.ac.uk/brussels/brussels (...)
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The Town Hall (French: ''Hôtel de Ville'', Dutch: ''Stadhuis'') of Brussels, Belgium, stands on that city's famous Grand Place. The oldest part of the present Town Hall is its east wing (to the left, when facing the front). This wing, together with a small belfry, was built from 1402 to 1420 under direction of Jacob van Thienen, and future additions were not originally foreseen (...)
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Jeanneke Pis is a modern fountain and statue in Brussels, which forms a counterpoint in gender terms to the city's trademark Manneken Pis, as it does aurally and geographically, being about the same distance away on the other side of the Grand Place / Grote Markt. It was made by Denis-Adrien Debouvrie in 1985 and erected in 1987 and endowed with its own instant legend, the better to (...)
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, ) or Mont des Arts (French, ), meaning "hill/mountain of the arts", is a historic site in the center of Brussels. The showcase square was created for the Universal Exposition held in Brussels in 1910. It featured a park and a monumental staircase with cascading fountains descending the gentle slope from Place Royale / Koningsplein down to Emperor Boulevard (...)
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The Royal Library of Belgium (''Koninklijke Bibliotheek'' in Dutch, ''Bibliothèque Royale'' in French, abbreviated ''KBR'' and sometimes nicknamed ''Albertina'') is one of the most important cultural institutions in Belgium. The library has a history that goes back to the age of the Dukes of Burgundy (...)
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for ''little man wee'') is a Brussels landmark. It is a small bronze fountain sculpture depicting a naked little boy urinating into the fountain's basin. Similar statues can be found in the Belgian cities of Geraardsbergen, Hasselt, Gent and in the North French village of Broxeele, a town with the same etymology as ''Brussels'' (...)
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, or la Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie (la Monnaie) 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. Therefore, ''"de Munt/la Monnaie"'' refers both to the structure as well as the opera company (...)
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