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MHKA
MHKA is considered to be one of Belgiums best contemporary museums. Its collections and temporary exhibitions focus on work from the 1970s on and feature Belgian and international artists. Shows tend to the provocative.
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Musée Félicien Rops
Celebrated local artist Félicien Rops (1833–98), born a few streets away at Rue du Président 33, had a penchant for illustrating erotic lifestyles and macabre scenes as youll rapidly discover at this eponymous museum.
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Tombeau du Géant
The Ardennes most celebrated panoramic viewpoint, the Giants Tomb encompasses a perfect hoop of river valley around 5km north of Bouillon (but 10km by road), from which its accessible on an interesting circular hike.
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Chapelle des Remparts
The squat little Chapelle des Remparts is not immediately attractive, but its remarkable for its super-thick walls, having been fashioned from the former gunpowder store of Philippevilles now demolished fortress-citadel.
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Oude Begijnhof
Ghent has three widely separated begijnhoven . This is the most central but theres no remnant enclosing wall so its just a pretty area of lanes around a church and green. The most photogenic alley is Provenierstersstraat.
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Frietmuseum
Follows the history of the potato from ancient Inca gravesites to the Belgian fryer. The entry fee includes a discount token for the basement frituur (11am-3pm) that immodestly claims to fry the world’s ultimate chips.
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Bruxella1238
Bruxella1238 is the scanty remains of a Franciscan convent that was bombarded into ruins in 1695. Most of the site is visible by peeping through the glass windows set into the pavement roughly outside Le Cirio café .
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MOU
Within the stadhuis , MOU displays collections of silverware and a dozen faded but priceless 16th-century Oudenaarde tapestries, along with a multimedia presentation on 1000 years of city history. Entry is through the tourist office.
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Terra Nova
The citadel’s central section is a 19th-century former barracks with a new visitor centre exploring the history and architecture of this important military bastion. From here, various guided tours (adult/child €6/5) depart.
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Menin Gate
A block east of Grote Markt, the famous Menin Gate is a huge stone gateway straddling the main road at the city moat. Its inscribed with the names of 54,896 lost British and Commonwealth WWI troops whose bodies were never found.
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Antiques Market
This is one of Belgiums best fleas, with a large number of brocante stalls and some serious antiques dealers. It takes place around Leopoldwal, Veemarkt, Maastrichterstraat, de Schiervelstraat, Clarissenstraat and Eburonenhal.
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Spuerkeess
In a dramatic, century-old, castle-style building, Spuerkeess is the state savings bank, and hosts an intriguing Bank Museum tracing 150 years of tradition and innovation in banking, from piggy banks to ATMs and bank robbers.
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La Louve
The archers guildhall features a golden phoenix rising from the ashes, which signifies the rebirth of the Grand Place after its bombardment by the French in 1695. It also has a relief depicting Romulus and Remus, hence its name.
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Scientastic Museum
Kids aged six and over may yet think science is fun after a couple of hours at this interactive museum, where they can make their voice mimic a duck, ‘fly’ using mirrors and enjoy other sensory pursuits. A winner for rainy days.
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Stadsschouwburg
The municipal theatre occupies the stone-fronted former palace of Margaret of York. The diplomatically brilliant sister of English king Richard III, she became the de facto dowager ruler of Burgundy’s Low Countries from Mechelen.
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Limbourg
If you’re driving to Eupen, detour from Dolhain to this unusually well-preserved hill-citadel village (9km from Verviers) with its oversized church and extraordinarily uneven cobblestones in its long, picturesque main square.
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Autoworld
Autoworld displays one of Europe’s biggest ensembles of vintage and 20th-century cars. Among all the four-wheelers, notice the Harley Davidson the present king gave to Belgium’s police force when he decided his biker days were over.
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Choco
A highly absorbing chocolate museum tracing the cocoa bean back to its role as an Aztec currency. Learn about choco-history, watch a video on cocoa production and sample a praline that’s made as you watch (last demonstration 4.45pm).
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Vleeshuis
Layered red-and-white stonework makes the striking 1504 Vleeshuis building look like rashers of bacon. Once the Butchers Guildhouse, it now has a display of musical instruments and the machines that were used to make them.
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Place de la Constitution
Towering above this leafy triangular ‘square’ is a monolith topped by a wreath-bearing golden maiden commemorating Luxembourg’s WWI dead. Beyond, the valley falls away to the Pétrusse River; several viewpoints overlook the scene.
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