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Musée dHistoire(s) Diekirch
In the pedestrian zone, the modern city museum has exhibits that include a Roman mosaic floor from a villa site nearby.
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Grand Château dAnsembourg
The grand château at Ansembourg allows visitors to admire the statuary and geometric topiary in its attractive formal gardens.
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Begijnhof Museum
This excellent museum, part of the town begijnhof , has a perfectly preserved kitchen and many genuinely local treasures.
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Hans Memling Statue
The statue of Hans Memling was erected in 1874. The Flemish Primitive artist is buried in St Gilliskerk, a few blocks further north.
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Twaalf Duivels
The Twaalf Duivels , built in 1896 by Jules Hofman, has a timber façade that gives way to 12 wooden devils that leer at passers-by.
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Jean Massart Experimental Garden
This 5-hectare garden in the Forêt de Soignes (about a 40-minute drive from Brussels) has themed zones: medicinal, evolutionary and so on.
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Cubitus
In this mural a tetchy-looking Manneken Pis gazes up at his pediment, from which he has been displaced by a grinning, peeing bear.
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Onderwijsmuseum
The history of Flemish education is presented in the large former St-Niklaas church, including some entertaining exhibits on sex education.
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Audrey Hepburns Childhood Home
In 1929, My Fair Lady screen superstar Audrey Hepburn was born to a Dutch mother in Brussels. Their home at has a commemorative plaque.
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Geraardsbergse Musea
This sweetly old-fashioned ‘everything’ museum has rooms celebrating matchboxes, cigars, and Geraardsbergen’s signature Chantilly black lace.
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Maritime Park
Directly north of Het Steen castle, the misnamed Maritime Park is a long, open-sided wrought-iron shed displaying a historic barge collection.
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Chaloupe d’Or
The dressmakers guildhall is now a particularly splendid grand café whose upper-storey rooms (when open) offer fine views across the square.
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Parc Léopold
Steep-sloping Parc Léopold was Brussels Zoo until 1880 and now forms an unexpectedly pleasant oasis, hidden away just behind the EU Parliament.
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Tour Noire
Boxed in on three sides and incongruously dwarfed by the back of a Novotel Hotel, this is an ivy-draped remnant of Brussels’ original city wall.
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‘King of Liars’ Seat
This tiny stone seat is where the Roi des Menteurs (King of the Liars) is crowned during Septembers amusingly drunken Fêtes de Wallonie festivities.
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Park Bellewaerde
High-adrenaline amusement park behind the Crater Museum. This could be the place to give the kids a break from WWI graveyards. Online discounts.
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Uilenspiegel Museum
The Uilenspiegel Museum recounts the stories of Uilenspiegel, a villain in German folklore but a jester and freedom fighter in Flemish literature.
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Lakenhal
Behind the town hall is the 14th-century Lakenhal where cloth was traded centuries ago. Its now used as the official headquarters of the university.
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La Brouette
The grease-makers guildhall has faint gold wheelbarrows above the door. The statue of St-Gilles (the grease-makers patron) was added in 1912.
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Brewery Museum
Entry includes a beer supped amid barrels and delightfully antiquated wooden brewers’ tools: with the BrusselsCard it’s a great opportunity for a free drink.
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