Luminus (former names: Société productrice d’électricité, SPE, SPE-Luminus, and EDF Luminus) is the second largest electricity producer and energy supplier on the Belgian energy market. Its main shareholder is Électricité de France with a 68.6% stake. Luminus sells electricity and gas to 1.8 million private and professional customers, bringing its commercial market share to more than 20%. The company has approximately 2,000 employees. With an installed generation capacity of […]
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The Port of Ostend is situated in Ostend, West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. The port services freight transport between Ostend and Ramsgate, Ipswich and North Killingholme Haven. Doing buissnes: Blue Economy Circular Industry Bulk & Project cargo Cruises & Roll-on roll-off Fishing Industry Port areas REBO heavy weight terminal MultiTech technical customization
The Port of Ghent is the third busiest seaport in Belgium, located in Ghent, East Flanders in the Flemish Region. It is a multimodal port, because it provide access to the hinterland via wide range of transport options, with a strong emphasis on inland shipping. The Port offers a space for development with over 1,000 hectares of commercial property still available. As a top […]
The National Basilica of the Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic Minor Basilica and parish church in Brussels, Belgium. The church is dedicated to the Sacred Heart, inspired by the Basilique du Sacré-Coeur in Paris. Symbolically, King Leopold II laid the first stone of the basilica in 1905 during the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of Belgian independence. The construction was halted by the two World Wars and finished only in […]
L’Alchimie du Chocolat offers a wide range of more than fifty artisanal products, with various flavors, from the most classic to the most daring. These include speculoos praline, traditional truffles, coconut-honey crème fraîche and four-spice crème fraîche, gianduja puffed rice… Divinely infused ganaches: apple tea, cinnamon, lavender, mint, basil… A range of manons : speculoos, […]
The Parlamentarium is the visitors’ centre of the European Parliament and is located in the Parliament’s Espace Léopold complex in Brussels. The permanent exhibition contains hundreds of multimedia components, explaining the European Parliament and other European Union institutions. The entrance to the centre is located on the Parliament’s esplanade. Each visitor is provided with a personal multimedia guide (PMG) which guides them through the exhibition, […]
A 24-hour or 48-hour unlimited transportation aboard our hop-on hop-off red tour bus. The bus offers a guided tour and you can hop off wherever you want. You can see more than 22 most important landmarks of Brussels, see the European Parliament, the Museum of Fine Arts and the world famous Atomium, and much more.
Maison de la Marionnete holds a large collection of puppets from all over the world. Its large collection of traditional and contemporary puppets comes from many countries: Thailand, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Sicily, Portugal, Bulgaria, Belgium, France, Vietnam, Indonesia, etc. The heritage exhibition of the Center de la Marionnette is thus regularly renewed. The diversity of […]
Z33 Kunstencentrum (Art Museum Z33) is an experimental contemporary art and architecture museum in Hasselt, Belgium. Z33 often uses its smaller experimental spaces to commission site specific works by notable international artists. Holding larger curated exhibitions in its other building ‘Vleugel 58’. Since 2002 Z33 has exhibited artists including: Larry Bell,Mark Dion,Olafur Eliasson,Frederic Geurts,Atelier van Lieshout,Barry McGee,Dan Perjovschi,Mika Rottenberg,Santiago Sierra
The 91-metre-tall (298.5 ft) Belfry of Ghent is one of three medieval towers that overlook the old city centre of Ghent, Belgium, the other two belonging to Saint Bavo Cathedral and Saint Nicholas’ Church. Its height makes it the tallest belfry in Belgium. The belfry of Ghent, together with its attached buildings, belongs to the set of belfries of Belgium and France inscribed on UNESCO‘s World Heritage List. Construction […]
Korenmarkt English: Wheat Market) is a city square in the historic center of Ghent, Belgium. Located between the Leie river and St. Nicholas’ Church, it is one of the city’s most important and famous tourist locations. The square is surrounded with several historic buildings, which today house bars, restaurants and terraces. It is a pivotal location of the annual Gentse Feesten cultural festival. The Korenmarkt connects […]
D-Sight is a company that specializes in decision support software and associated services in the domains of project prioritization, supplier selection and collaborative decision-making. Software products D-Sight has developed different software products that all aim at supporting different complex decision-making processes. All products are distributed under the model of software as a service. The products are used in a […]
The Jazz Center Flanders is a documentation and information center in Dendermonde in East Flanders, Belgium. It is dedicated to archiving, documenting and researching audio and visual recordings of traditional jazz and blues music. In addition it maintains a museum, with guided tours, thematic exhibitions, video presentations and workshops. It is aiming to promote jazz and blues by organizing concerts and lectures, and releasing […]
DIVA Museum for Diamonds, Jewellery and Silver is a museum that opened in Antwerp, Belgium, in 2018. It merged the collections of the former Antwerp Diamond Museum (1972–2012) and Sterckshof silver museum (1992–2014) in a single institution. The museum’s collection “features over 500 objects that detail the story of Antwerp’s history with diamonds and gemstones”. Hundreds of precious artefacts from DIVA’s collection will […]
The Parc du Cinquantenaire or Jubelpark is a large public, urban park of 30 ha (74 acres) in the easternmost part of the European Quarter in Brussels, Belgium. Today, the various buildings of the Cinquantenaire host three museums—the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and of Military History, the Art & History Museum and Autoworld—as well as the Great Mosque of Brussels. The surrounding park esplanade is used for several […]
The Place du Jeu de Balle (French) or Vossenplein (Dutch) is a square located in the heart of the Marolles/Marollen district of Brussels, Belgium. It holds a famous flea market. The flea market takes place every day of the week from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. and weekends from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. Every year, on 20 July, the eve of Belgian National Day, […]
Ravenhof Castle (Dutch: Kasteel Ravenhof) is a castle in the center of Torhout, West Flanders, Belgium. The city’s park surrounds the castle which now serves as a museum and tourist center. The castle is thought to have been built in the 13th–15th century, but the original building was destroyed and the current building was built on the foundation of its […]
The Coudenberg or Koudenberg (listen(help·info); Dutch for cold hill) is a small hill in central Brussels (Belgium) where the Palace of Coudenberg was built. For nearly 700 years, the Castle and then Palace of Coudenberg was the seat of government of the counts, dukes, archdukes, kings, emperors and governors, who from the 11th century until its destruction in 1731, exerted their sovereignty […]
The Hof van Savoye (Court of Savoy) or Palace of Margaret of Austria is an early 16th-century building in Mechelen, Belgium. It was one of the first Renaissance buildings in northern Europe. Archduchess Margaret of Austria, Governor of the Netherlands, was granted a house located in the Korte Maagdenstraat (Virgins Short Street), but she found it too small and started an ambitious expansion campaign in 1507. The Hof van […]
Het Steen is a medieval fortress in the old city centre of Antwerp, Belgium, one of Europe’s biggest ports. Built after the Viking incursions in the early Middle Ages as the first stone fortress of Antwerp, Het Steen is Antwerp’s oldest building and used to be its oldest urban centre. At the entrance to Het Steen is a bas-relief of Semini, above […]
La Cambre Abbey or Ter Kameren Abbey (Dutch: Abdij Ter Kameren) is a former Cistercian abbey in Ixelles, Brussels (Belgium). The abbey was founded around 1196. It was suppressed during the French Revolution. Most of today’s buildings date from the 18th century; only the church, the refectory and the wing of the capitular hall maintain their medieval character. The simple abbey church houses Albert Bouts‘ early […]
The Halle Gate (French: Porte de Hal, Dutch: Hallepoort) is a medieval fortified city gate and the last vestige of the second walls of Brussels (Belgium). It is now a museum, part of the Royal Museums of Art and History (RMAH). Museum The museum displays exhibits about the history of the building, as well as of the City of Brussels and its defence. The collection includes the parade armor […]
The Mont des Arts is an urban complex and historic site in the centre of Brussels, Belgium, including the Royal Library of Belgium, the National Archives of Belgium, the Square – Brussels Meeting Centre, and a public garden. The Mont des Arts offers one of Brussels’ finest views. Though the glass and steel cube forming the new entrance to the convention centre […]
The slaughterhouses of Mons ( Belgium ) were built in 1855 along a river called the Trouille . At that time, there were fish tanks there and the district was called Quartier de la Pêcherie before taking the name of Quartier du Grand Trou Oudart in honor of a fishing family. The building was listed in 1985 and opened to the public in 2006 after renovation. It then received the name of Anciens […]
Grand-Hornu is an old industrial coal mining complex and company town (cité ouvrière) in Hornu (Boussu), near Mons, in Belgium. It was built by Henri De Gorge between 1810 and 1830. It is a unique example of functional town-planning. Today it is owned by the province of Hainaut, which houses temporary exhibitions in the buildings. It is one of the four industrial sites which were listed by UNESCO as a […]
Les Beaux-Arts Mons , or BAM , is a cultural space located in the Belgian city of Mons . This is the new name of the Museum of Fine Arts of Mons. The history of this museum began in 1885 when a Montois by the name of Henri Glépin bequeathed his fortune to the city of Mons by asking in exchange that it build a museum to accommodate its various […]
Arts² (Arts au carré) is a higher arts school in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation . It is the result of the merger of the Royal Conservatory of Mons and the Higher School of Plastic and Visual Arts in Mons (ESAPV). Arts² organizes three areas of higher artistic education: the field of Visual Arts (offering the options: interior architecture, digital arts, visual communication, […]
The Faculty of Architecture La Cambre-Horta is a faculty of the Free University of Brussels founded in 2009 and established in the municipality of Ixelles , Belgium . Training Bachelor (3 years) Bachelor in Architecture Bachelor in landscape architecture organized in collaboration with the Higher Industrial Agronomic Institute (ISIa – Haute École Charlemagne ) and Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech – ( University of Liège ) Masters (2 years) Master in Architecture Masters in landscape architecture organized […]
The École supérieure des arts Saint-Luc de Liège (ESA) is a Belgian higher school of the arts founded in 1890 . The admission is based on the results of the examinations. Upon review about(80%) of applicants receive a positive response. International applicants who wish to receive a bachelor’s degree at École supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc de Liège, can do so for as little […]
Haute Ecole Francisco Ferrer (HEFF) – public higher education institution in Belgium. Haute Ecole Francisco Ferrer is relatively small, teaching about 3000 students on average. The university accepts applications from foreign students. 499 specialists are employed by the university. A variety of international student exchange programs are available at HEFF. The school brings together various institutes of […]
Group T (Groep T) is a college (formerly hogeschool (college)) in Leuven, Belgium. The school was formed by a fusion of an existing school for technical (industrial) engineers and the Provinciale Normaalschool. Nowadays the school offers two main branches: The Engineering College: a Bachelor and Master in industrial sciences. The Teacher’s College: a Bachelor of education. Group T is especially active in international cooperations with universities in […]
The School of Graphic Research , or erg , is a school of art and design in Belgium , located on Rue du Page 87 in Ixelles and founded in 1972, by Thierry de Duve and Jean Guiraud. The erg is a École Supérieure des Arts (ESA), a full-time, long-type free education. Students can obtain their bachelor’s for as little as […]
Haute École de la Ville de Liège (HEL) – higher education institution in Belgium. Haute École de la Ville de Liège belongs to small universities, with a capacity of only 3000 students. The university accepts applications from foreign students. The academic staff consists of 299 specialists. Category The Haute École is divided into 5 main categories spread […]
Haute Ecole Lucia de Brouckère (HELdB) – public higher education institution in Belgium. The university campus is of urban type and is located in the vicinity of Brussels. Haute Ecole Lucia de Brouckère is a small educational institution, with approximately 2000 students. Being a foreign citizen does not exclude you from the admission process. The teaching […]
The Haute École libre de Bruxelles – Ilya Prigogine is a Belgian high school established in Brussels which brings together several institutes. It is part of free non-denominational higher education. Teaching It organizes short-type higher education (12 baccalaureate holders and 6 specializations) and long-type higher education (1 bachelor’s degree + 2 master’s degree). Short-type higher education organizes baccalaureate graduates in: Social category Social […]
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