Wednesday, 22 March 2023
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Derek Blyth

Five Belgian cities in search of cultural capital

The competition is already heating up, with the five laying out their charms as if for a beauty contest.

How the bombs changed Brussels, and how the city is still coming to terms with them

The victims were a random group of people. Some locals. Others passing through. A retired Belgian ambassador waiting to board a flight to the United States. A university student on his way to classes. A Swedish illustrator who lived in Brussels.

Belgium's Stolpersteine marking the houses where Jews lived before deportation to Nazi death camps

Almost every memorial stone in Brussels has the words ‘Détenu Malines’. Held in Mechelen. That was the last stop in Belgium for most of them.

The eerie mystique surrounding Brussels' Art Nouveau palace

A tiny number of people have seen inside the building.

Victor Horta: The architect of dreams

Victor Horta was one of Art Nouveau’s pioneers and his extraordinary twisting and curving designs still inspire architecture today. But who was he?

Confronting Leopold’s Ghost

By the late 19th century, Leopold was one of the richest people in Europe, ruling his colony from a timbered chalet next to the royal palace, but never setting foot on African soil.

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