Annual architecture feast Banad Festival is back and places still remain for guided tours of some of Brussels’ finest examples of Art Nouveau and Art Deco design.
Living
11:16 26/01/2021
In what could be one of the most impressive urban regeneration projects Brussels has ever seen, the Avenue de la Toison d Or and the Boulevard de Waterloo in the upper part of the city centre will be redeveloped to form what some are calling ‘the Champs-Elysées Brussels’.
The redevelopment project, presented before the regional elections in 2019, is now entering a new phase, that of the public inquiry which starts this Wednesday, 27 January. The consultation will last for a period of one month.
The project will see a radical transformation of the area stretching from the Porte de Namur to Avenue Louise. This will include wider pavements, bike lanes, reduced traffic, and an end to nearly all surface parking areas.
Scotland Forever! : How Scottish Highlanders Helped Defeat Napoleon at Waterloo
The fabled Scottish Highlanders, including the 42nd, 79th and 92nd Regiments, marched into battle at Quatre Bras and Waterloo behind beating drums and shrieking bagpipes, shouting their fierce war cry, “Scotland forever!”
Here s What You Need to Know: Scottish Highlanders contributed to the Anglo-Allied victory over Napoleon.
In the early morning of June 16, 1815, the city of Brussels awoke to the shriek of bagpipes and the throbbing tattoo of drums. The Anglo-Dutch army under Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, was assembling to combat French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte’s lightning invasion of Belgium. As the red-coated British soldiers got into ranks, Brussels citizens looked on with growing excitement. Even stolid Belgian peasants bringing in vegetables from outlying farms could not help but stop their wagons and gaze in awe.
Belgium
20:29 23/12/2020
Members of the public can write a Christmas or new-year wish and have it displayed on four big screens around Brussels.
The Brussels Wish project is run by not-for-profit association Brussels Sounds Good and allows anyone to have a greeting projected across the city.
Messages can be sent on Twitter or Instagram using the hashtags #brusselswish and #ToYou, via the website www.wish.brussels or on a dedicated Facebook page. You can also send your greeting by SMS to 04 60 20 30 17.
The screens are in place until 10 January at Porte de Namur, Place Rogier, Mont des Arts and next to the Place Communale in Molenbeek.