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From its breathtaking medieval centre to its 21st-century temple to Surrealism, the new Magritte Museum, Brussels offers the visitor a dandy deal more than than just beer and chocolate and is resoundingly dissimilar its unfortunate staid epitome as the dwelling of EU bureaucrats. Indeed, Brussels is a artistic, dynamic city. Its compact city centre is clustered with bars, restaurants and museums set forth cobbled streets. Inevitably, almost tourists head to the Grand-Place. With its ornate Flemish guild houses, impressive Town Hall and buzzing atmosphere, information technology would be hard to find a more cute foursquare in the whole of Europe. It deservedly is a UNESCO World Heritage site and is the city’s crowning precious stone. Wander next to the nearby Majestic and Sablon districts teeming with fine art galleries and antiquarian shops. Throw away your map and meander down a myriad side streets, discovering flea markets, fine art-deco houses and boutique stores. The Bruxellois take pride in their self-effacing, intellectual sense of humor, underpinned by a stiff appreciation of the bizarre. The city has a long-running love affair with the Surrealist art movement, pioneered by René Magritte, and with classic comic strips, epitomised by Hergé’southward boy hero, Tintin. There’due south a telling irony in the fact that the city’s best-known landmark is the Manneken-Pis, a tiny statuette of a urinating boy. Meanwhile, all of this sits aslope earth-class collections of art, fabulous cooking including mussels, frites, waffles and whelks, some of Europe’s best and unique beers (literally, there are thousands of varieties), and master-chocolatiers. The metropolis’s cultural calendar is packed with events for anybody from the massive, raucous Foire du Midi street fair every July teeming with stalls and fairground attractions to the legendary Christmas Market place that takes heart stage in the Place Sainte Catherine with 240 stalls, a skating rink, a big wheel, and numerous rides. 1 of the biggest events is Art Brussels, showcasing the city’s edgier, creative side and a hub for art connoisseurs from around the globe. If you’re a Euro-loving national, bank check out the European Quarter, centered around Schuman and the Berlaymont. Its liveliest part is the Place du Luxembourg: all its confined fill up effectually 6pm on week days with some of the twenty,000 diplomats, politicians and civil servants who reside in the city after Brussels became the centre of international political post-obit WWII. Open up your eyes and you’ll be pleasantly surprised by all that Brussels has to offer.