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Cityscape
This enormous scrap-wood sculpture by Brussels artist Arne Quinze is a whopping 40m-long, 25m-wide, 18m-high canopy that weighs more than 70 tonne. What it actually represents is anyone’s guess.
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Casino Luxembourg
This grand one-time society mansion saw the great Hungarian composer-virtuoso Franz Liszt give his last concert. Now the building is used as an interesting exhibition space for contemporary art.
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Centrum Ronde van Vlaanderen
Facing the churchs southern flank, this state-of-the-art museum lets cycling fans share the sensations and emotions of the classic Tour of Flanders bike race which has its final stage in Oudenaarde.
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Abdijtoren
The most significant remnant of the former St-Trudo Abbey, this unrefined seven-storey tower dates partly from the 11th century. You can survey the city from the rough metal viewing platform on top.
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National Bank of Belgium Museum
Unexpectedly absorbing, the National Bank Museum is far more than just a coin collection. Well-presented exhibits trace the very concept of money all the way from cowrie shells to credit cards.
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Musée d’Art Fantastique
In what seems an outwardly typical Ixelles town house, this museum hits you with jumbled rooms full of cyborg body parts, Terminator heads and vampire cocoons, then lets you electrocute a troll.
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Oude Kaasmakerij
This interactive, mildly interesting cheese museum compares old and new cheese-making techniques while a gratuitous naked Cleopatra takes a bath in plastic asses’ milk. Its 1.2km west of Tyne Cot.
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Kasteel van Loppem
Kasteel van Loppem is a mid-19th-century brick castle-mansion which had its moment of fame at the end of WWI when it was briefly home to the Belgian king and the command centre for the Belgian army.
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FC de Kampioenen
This bright, dynamic mural features not a football club but a parade of characters based on a TV series that ran from 1990 to 2011. The show was turned into a comic strip by Hec Leemans in 1997.
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Pavillon Chinois
The Pavillon Chinois is a Léopold II leftover, built after he saw similar at the 1890 Paris Worlds Fair. It is a gloriously glittering structure and houses an extensive collection of Chinese porcelain.
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Château des Carondelet
In the stream valley steeply below Crupet is the picturesque Château des Carondelet, a moated 13th-century tower-house. Its private but photogenic from the outside, especially in morning light.
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Stadsfeestzaal
If walking between the station and the centre, do look inside this fabulous shopping mall within a magnificent 1908 neoclassical exhibition hall that was restored to its full gilt-laden opulence in 2007.
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Speelkaartmuseum
Celebrating Turnhout’s role as the world’s second-largest producer of playing cards, this museum displays a range of antique industrial machines used in card creation, including a vast steam-powered drive wheel.
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Brasserie
Around the back of the Abbaye dAulne, its worth seeking out this timeless brasserie-taverne, whose Blonde des Pères beer, brewed here, is served in earthenware chalices. A tour and tasting costs €5.50.
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Spaans Paviljoen
The gabled 1615 Vleeshuis sits at Grote Markt 1; the 15th-century Spaans Paviljoen (Spanish Pavilion) was Veurne’s town hall before being commandeered as a garrison for Spanish officers during Hapsburg rule.
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Mu.Zee
Mu.Zee, Ostend’s foremost gallery, features predominantly local artists. There’s a significant collection by symbolist painter Léon Spilliaert (1881–1946) whose most brooding works are reminiscent of Munch.
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ModeNatie
Start any visit to the St-Andries fashion district at this rounded Flatiron-style building. ModeNatie co-hosts the Flanders Fashion Institute and a mode museum, MoMu, which mounts regularly changing exhibitions.
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Courthouse
The city’s step-gabled courthouse was Margaret of Austrias palace from 1506. Despite many subsequent alterations, it maintains a gorgeous courtyard garden where Charles Quint would have played as a boy.
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BAM
This modernist glass cube of a gallery is the product of a rebuild for the citys tenure as a European Capital of Culture in 2015. It hosts temporary exhibitions, with at least one high-profile one planned each year.
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Jeanneke Pis
Squatting just off Rue des Bouchers, this pigtailed female counterpart of the Manneken Pis is the work of sculptor Denis Adrien Debouvrie, who installed her here in 1985. She’s usually partly obscured by locked iron gates.
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