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Current Issue: Apr/May 2022

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Brussels experiences explosion in craft beer start-ups

In recent years, Brussels has seen an explosion in craft beer production, turning the niche brewing sector into a serious player for beer ...

Friday, May 13, 2022
Brussels set to open one of the largest modern and contemporary art museums in the world

Kanal-Centre Pompidou is set to be one of the largest modern and contemporary art museums in the world when it opens along the Brussels ...

Tuesday, May 10, 2022
The Coudenberg Palace: Once the grandest seat in Europe

The Coudenberg Palace was once the grandest seat in Europe, the court of the continent’s most powerful figure. After a fire in 1731, it was ...

Tuesday, May 3, 2022
The ever-moving music scene in Brussels

Brussels has a proud musical history, but today’s artists are taking their sounds in new directions. The Brussels Times looks at the most ...

Sunday, May 1, 2022
First opened almost a century-and-a-half ago, Le Grand Café has reopened its doors

Walk into Le Grand Café on Place de la Bourse in downtown Brussels, and step back in time. It was in 1874 that the brasserie, built by ...

Friday, April 29, 2022
Belgium’s Stolpersteine marking the houses where Jews lived before deportation to Nazi death camps

During the Second World War, some 25,000 Jews were deported from Belgium to Nazi death camps. Almost all were despatched on trains from the ...

Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Brussels Porn Film Festival: Are you coming?

With two porn film festivals opening in Belgium, The Brussels Times meets some of the stars preparing to open up the debate. Porn is ...

Thursday, April 21, 2022
Art and events to watch out for in Brussels this April and May

The Brussels Times selects the best exhibitions and events currently on show in museums, galleries and other spaces ART BRUSSELS Art ...

Thursday, April 21, 2022
Hallerbos: Belgium’s blue forest

For two weeks at the end of April, the Hallerbos forest southwest of Brussels is transformed into a dreamlike carpet of hovering bluebells. ...

Sunday, April 17, 2022
Unveiling the ‘Diamond Palace’: Brussels’ hidden Art Nouveau gem

The Aegidium on the Parvis de Saint-Gilles has been boarded up for decades, but now, the Art Nouveau marvel is finally being restored. ...

Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Why Flanders is the spiritual home of cycling’s hard racing

Why is Flanders the spiritual home of cycling’s hard racing and hard racers? The Brussels Times recounts how the Flemish cultivated gritty ...

Saturday, April 2, 2022
The revival of what could be the finest Art Deco house in the world

Villa Empain could be the finest Art Deco house in the world, but it was not always appreciated, and almost fell into ruin.  The broad, ...

Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Why Belgium is still a terror risk

Six years ago, it felt like extremist terrorism would haunt us permanently. The March 2016 bombs in the Brussels metro and airport left 35 ...

Tuesday, March 29, 2022
How I bought a hidden Horta masterpiece

When I bought Hôtel Frison five years ago, I had no idea who Victor Horta was. It’s embarrassing to admit, but it’s true. I did not know ...

Sunday, March 27, 2022
How Brussels created a vinyl revival

Vinyl records were supposed to die out with the compact disc in the 1980s, but in today’s streaming era, they are still somehow surviving. ...

Saturday, March 26, 2022
10 of the best Belgian beer festivals to plan for in 2022

With a beer festival in Belgium almost every week of the year, how do you choose which to attend? The Brussels Times names 2022’s ten best ...

Wednesday, March 23, 2022
The eerie mystique surrounding Brussels’ Art Nouveau palace

A warring family holds the keys to an elusive Belgian masterpiece, but they want to keep it to themselves. What's the story behind the ...

Wednesday, March 23, 2022
How Putin saved Belgium’s nuclear industry

For almost two decades, Belgian politicians have hummed and hawed about whether to reprieve, rebuild or remove their ageing nuclear power ...

Tuesday, March 22, 2022
‘Belgium’s little Einstein’: The 11 year old boy who is the world’s youngest science graduate

Laurent Simons was just 11 years old when he became the world’s youngest science graduate, generating the instant label of Belgium’s ...

Monday, March 14, 2022
Brussels food and drink

What are the most delicious foods, refreshing drinks, coolest cafés and chicest restaurants in Brussels at the moment? Here are some of the ...

Monday, March 14, 2022

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