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Place du Marché
At the centres eastern end, Verviers most attractive little square is dominated by a stately town hall, with cobbled Mont du Moulin descending photogenically past ivy-draped and half-timbered buildings to the north. A road sign points incongruously to Bradford (775km), and other tr
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Musée de Groesbeeck
In a very fine 1753 former abbot’s house are displays of decorative arts in 23 beautifully furnished rooms around a formal courtyard garden. Don’t miss the 18th-century kitchen. At the time of research it was closed as a building in the same complex was being adapted to hold the to
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FoMu
The permanent collection gives a splendid potted history of photography (albeit mostly in Dutch), but there are also regularly changing exhibitions of no-holds-barred work by contemporary artists. As well as a shop and cafe, there is a fantastic cinema with many version-original (o
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Am Tunnel
Deep beneath the Spuerkeess bank is a permanent exhibition on photographer Edward Steichen, the man behind Clervaux’s Family of Man . Access, however, is via an entirely separate building and tunnel carved 350m through the Bourbon plateau. The tunnel walls are used for changing col
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Koeleweimolen
In the 13th century, Bruges great walls were dotted with molens (windmills) where cereals were ground into flour. Four still stand on the eastern rampart and two can be visited: Koeleweimolen is one, the 18th-century St Janshuismolen is another. The sails are occasionally set in mo
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Trésor de la Cathédrale
There are some impressive pieces in the treasury in the heart of Tournais cathedral, including a fabulous Last Judgement châsse (casket), a striking chasuble worn by Thomas Becket and a 22m-long 1402 tapestry that features the lives of locally important saints Piatus and Eleutherus
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Zinneke
In the old Bruxellois dialect, zinneke means ‘a person of mixed origins’, which sums up the city’s inhabitants to this day. Hence Flemish sculptor Tom Frantzen’s statue of a dog with its leg cocked is a proud mongrel, and has inspired the city’s most exuberant celebration of Brusse
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Broeltorens
This iconic pair of three-storey fortress towers guards a picturesque arched stone bridge across the River Leie in central Kortrijk. Last reminders of a long-gone medieval city wall, their machicolations and conical roofs look magical in night-time floodlights when the backdrop of
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Jewish Museum
The Jewish Museum hosts good temporary photography exhibits and a permanent collection relating to Jewish life in Belgium and beyond, with a section on the Holocaust. The museum was hit by a terrorist attack in 2014 that killed four people; there is stringent security on arrival an
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Duch vum Séi
This old cloth factory 700m west of the village is now a museum whose displays include an impressive collection of old textile looms. It doubles as an information centre for the Parc Naturel de la Haute Sûre, promoting local produce and environmentally aware leisure in the attracti
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Canal View
Don’t miss the superb canal view from outside ‘t Klein Venetie cafe. With the belfry towering above a perfect canal-fronted gaggle of medieval house-fronts, the view is lovely any time, but it’s especially compelling at dusk as the floodlights come on. From here, canalside Dijver l
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Église Ste
Église Ste-Catherine must be one of the only religious buildings that positively encourages folks to urinate on its walls (there’s a ‘pissoir’ on its northwestern flank). Inside is a black statue of the Virgin and Child that Protestants once hurled into the Senne (1744); the statue
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Grès de la Roche
Learn about La Roche’s two main cottage industries in an imaginative half-hour audio-guided tour (no short cuts!). Press-and-sniff buttons add some fun as youre introduced to kiln-firing and ham-smoking methods. Pottery workshops for children are available in summer. The museum is
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Hôtel Solvay
Horta designed this in 1894 at the age of 33 and its considered one of his masterpieces. It was commissioned by the Solvay family (soft-drink manufacturers), who gave him free rein in matters of design and budget. Its open only to ARAU tour groups; if you cant join one, the hints o
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St Janshuismolen
In the 13th century, Bruges great walls were dotted with molens (windmills) where cereals were ground into flour. Four still stand on the eastern rampart and two can be visited: the 18th-century St Janshuismolen is one, the nearby Koeleweimolen is another. The sails are occasionall
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De Wereld van Kina
This mish-mash of a natural history museum is aimed primarily at school kids. Meet Pterygotus (a man-sized prehistoric lobster), walk through a human body with pounding heart, and get quizzed in the lively sex-education room. Press buttons to hear the songs of stuffed birds and fin
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Royal Greenhouses
The enormous Serres Royales were built by Alphonse Balat during Léopold IIs reign. Fuchsias and all sorts of tropical species thrive inside, and Belgians queue en masse during the two weeks each year when the greenhouses are open to the public. Exact opening dates are available ann
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Bakkerijmuseum
Near the motorway junction, 2km south of central Veurne, a classical 17th-century farmstead houses this delightful museum comprehensively examining baking from grain production to speculaas moulding. There’s also a chocolate statue and barns of milling machines. Come in summer or h
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Château de Bourglinster
Bourglinster’s 18th-century castle sits within the shattered ruins of a bigger 12th-century fortress destroyed by a 1684 French attack. The whitewashed gatehouse towers look like cartoon mushroom houses, the main building hosts exhibitions and the courtyard is used for occasional p
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Fort Napoleon
The impenetrable pentagon of Fort Napoleon is an unusually intact Napoleonic fortress dating from 1812, though there’s comparatively little to see inside and the audio guide covers many of the same topics you’ll have heard at the Atlantikwall. Drinking at the fortress café gets you
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