The Concertgebouw (Concert building) is a cultural centre in Bruges, Belgium. Located at ‘t Zand, it was completed in 2002 when Bruges was European Capital of Culture, designed by Paul Robbrecht and Hilde Daem. The building complex houses a large concert hall seating more than 1290 visitors on three levels and a chamber music hall seating 320. It features a […]
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The Basilica of the Holy Blood is a Roman Catholic basilica in Bruges, Belgium. The church houses a relic of the Holy Blood allegedly collected by Joseph of Arimathea and brought from the Holy Land by Thierry of Alsace, Count of Flanders. The basilica in Burg square consists of a lower and upper chapel. The lower chapel, dedicated to St. Basil the Great, is a dark Romanesque structure that remains virtually unchanged. The venerated Passion relic is in […]
The Sint-Leocollege was a Catholic school in the center of the city of Bruges , the primary and secondary ( ASO ) offered education.
The Hotel and Tourism School Spermalie is located in Bruges . This Catholic school was founded in 1952 by the Sisters of Spermalie . At the foundation it was a hotel school exclusively for girls, with six students. The school is now also accessible to boys. A school uniform is mandatory. Much importance is attached to style, discipline, etiquette, sense of responsibility, honesty and hospitality. Spermalie has […]
The College of Europe (French: Collège d’Europe) is a postgraduate institute of European studies with its main campus in Bruges, Belgium, and a smaller campus in Warsaw, Poland. Students are usually selected in cooperation with their countries’ ministries of foreign affairs, and admission is highly competitive. The College of Europe is bilingual, and students must be proficient in English and French. Students receive […]
Hogeschool VIVES is a University College in West Flanders. The name refers to the Spanish-Brussian humanist Juan Luis Vives. VIVES is the result of a merger between KATHO and KHBO in 2013. Fields of study: Applied Engineering and Technology, Applied Social Studies, Biotechnology, Commercial Sciences, Business Management and Informatics, Education and Health Care. Campuses VIVES South Courtrai (HQ) Roeselare Torhout Tielt (Closed mid-2019) VIVES North Bruges (campus Xaverianenstraat and campus Bruges Station) […]
The Royal Saint-Hubert Galleries (French: Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert, Dutch: Koninklijke Sint-Hubertusgalerijen) are an ensemble of glazed shopping arcades in central Brussels, Belgium. Designed and built by architect Jean-Pierre Cluysenaer between 1846 and 1847, they precede other famous 19th-century European shopping arcades such as the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan (Italy) and The Passage in St Petersburg (Russia). Like them, they have twin regular facades with distant origins in Vasari‘s long narrow street-like courtyard of […]
The Royal Palace of Brussels is the official palace of the King and Queen of the Belgians in the centre of the nation’s capital Brussels. However it is not used as a royal residence, as the king and his family live in the Royal Palace of Laeken on the outskirts of Brussels. The palace is situated in front of Brussels Park. A […]
Train World is a railway museum in Belgium and the official museum of the National Railway Company of Belgium. It is situated in the preserved buildings of Schaarbeek railway station and in a new shed built to its north. Collection Exhibits Exhibits include: Pays de Waes State Railways Type 10 steam locomotive (10.018) Type 12 steam locomotive (12.004) Type 18 steam locomotive (18.051) Type 51 steam […]
Art & Design Atomium Museum (ADAM’) is a museum located in Heysel Park, Brussels, Belgium. The space focuses on design works from the 20th and 21st centuries. The Art & Design Atomium Museum was established after the Atomium’s acquisition of the Plasticarium collection. The ADAM exhibits plastic designs from the 1950s to the present through its permanent exhibition.
The University of Kent‘s The Brussels School of International Studies is a specialised postgraduate school offering international studies in Brussels, Belgium. Students benefit from the advantages of a degree from a British university offered by its location in the ‘Capital of Europe’. There are approximately 220 postgraduate students pursuing degrees at the school, drawn from over 65 countries. […]
Saint-Louis University, Brussels or UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels (officially, in French Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles) is a public university in Brussels, belonging to the French Community of Belgium and specialized in social and human sciences. Faculties Faculty of Philosophy, Arts and Human Sciences Faculty of Law Faculty of Economics, Social, Political and Communication Sciences (ESPO) Marie Haps Faculty of Translation and Interpreting Institute for European Studies (IEE) Saint-Louis […]
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) is a Dutch– and English-speaking research university located in Brussels, Belgium. It has four campuses: Brussels Humanities, Science and Engineering Campus (in Ixelles), Brussels Health Campus (in Jette), Brussels Technology Campus (in Anderlecht) and Brussels Photonics Campus (in Gooik). The university is organised into 8 faculties that accomplish the three central missions of the university: education, research, and service to the community. The faculties […]
The Université libre de Bruxelles (French for Free University of Brussels), abbreviated ULB, is a French-speaking private research university in Brussels, Belgium. A major research center open to Europe and the world, it has about 24,200 students, 33% of whom come from abroad, and an equally cosmopolitan staff. Faculties, schools and institute Institute for European Studies Interfacultary School of Bio-Engineering School of Public Health […]
The Royal Military Academy is the military university of Belgium. The institution is responsible for the education of the officers of the four components of the Belgian defence (Army, Air Force, Navy, Medical) and is located in Brussels in a building constructed by the architects Henri Maquet and Henri Van Dievoet. The courses are given in French, Dutch and English. The Academy comprises two faculties: The Faculty of Applied Sciences: Master of […]
Effortel SA is a Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE) providing a platform-based transaction processing and management services for Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO), and acts as an MVNO itself in partnership with Carrefour. MVNE Services: voice, SMS, roaming, voicemail, billing and invoicing, payment handling, financial reporting, sales and marketing, customer care and self-care support Effortel Technologies platform provides the elements […]
Cofinimmo is the foremost listed Belgian real estate company specialising in rental property. The company owns a property portfolio worth over €4 billion, representing a total area of nearly 2,000,000m² spread over Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Germany and Spain. Its main investment segments are healthcare properties (nursing and care homes, revalidation clinics, psychiatric clinics, medical office […]
Since 1995, Befimmo has been pursuing a policy of investing in buildings in locations and letting them to tenants. Over time, Befimmo has specialised in particular in investing in office buildings mainly located in city centres, notably in Brussels. In 2018, Befimmo’s portfolio consisted of around a hundred office buildings, valued at about €2 billion, […]
Base is an international design, communications, audiovisual, copywriting and publishing firm established in 1993. The company has studios located in Brussels, New York, Geneva and Melbourne. Base was founded in 1993 in Brussels. From late 2001 to 2003, Base designed and produced BEople, “a magazine about a certain Belgium.” In 2005 Base invested in global book-distribution company ACTAR, to […]
Aviapartner, whose origins date back to 1949 under the name of Herfurth Air Services to become ‘Belgavia’ in the late 1960s, is a Belgian company that provides aircraft ground handling services at 37 airports in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and The Netherlands. Among the airports served are Amsterdam, Brussels, Milan, Düsseldorf, Rome, Nice, Toulouse and Málaga . Range of ground handling services Passenger handling: Check-in, ticketing, boarding assistance, lost and found […]
Ageas is a Belgian multinational insurance company co-headquartered in Brussels. Ageas is Belgium’s largest insurer and operates in 14 countries worldwide. Operations The company is the largest provider of insurance in Belgium, owning 75% of AG Insurance. Products are sold through independent agents, brokers and financial planners, and through branches of BNP Paribas Fortis and its subsidiary Banque de La Poste/Bank van De […]
AG Real Estate (former Fortis Real Estate) is a wholly owned subsidiary of AG Insurance (Ageas) and the largest real estate group in Belgium, headquartered in Brussels. AG Real Estate has a portfolio under management of over €6 billion that incorporates office buildings, shopping malls, logistics properties, residential properties and shares in real estate investment funds, both listed and unlisted. Activities Development Investment & Property Management […]
The Center hospitalier universitaire de Liège , or more simply CHU de Liège , is a Belgian university hospital belonging to the University of Liège Sites Site Sart Tilman : Hospital Sart Tilman was designed by the Liège architect Charles Vandenhove ; the building houses several works of art integrated into the architecture (works by Jean-Charles Blais , Daniel Buren , Jacques Charlier , Olivier Debré , Jo Delahaut , Sol LeWitt , André Romus , Niele Toroni , Claude Viallat , Marthe Wéry and Léon Wuidar ). Notre Dame des Bruyères […]
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Catholic school of general ordinary secondary education. Secondary level Common first year MODERN LANGUAGE I ENGLISH (4 hrs) MODERN LANGUAGE I DUTCH (4 hrs) Complementary year-first year MODERN LANGUAGE I ENGLISH (4 hrs) MODERN LANGUAGE I DUTCH (4 hrs) Common second year MODERN LANGUAGE I ENGLISH (4 hrs) MODERN LANGUAGE I DUTCH (4 hrs) Complementary […]
The University of Liège (French: Université de Liège), or ULiège, is a major public university of the French Community of Belgium based in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium. Its official language is French. As of 2020, ULiège is ranked in the 301–350 category worldwide according to Times Higher Education. More than 2000 people, academics, scientists and technicians, are involved in research of a wide variety of subjects from basic research to […]
The Regional Investment Company of Wallonia (French: Société Régionale d’Investissement de Wallonie or SRIW) was founded by the Walloon Region in 1979 to provide capital to the Walloon industry. The purpose of the SRIW, based in Liège, is to invest in the equity of unlisted companies (private equity). The SRIW acts either by purchasing shares of companies, by increasing the capital of the business, by subscribing to a bond […]
ASL Airlines Belgium, formerly TNT Airways, is a Belgiancargo airline operating chartered flights mainly to European destinations. It has its head office and hub on the grounds of Liège Airport. The airline used to be a subsidiary of TNT Express but was sold to ASL Airlines Ireland in 2016 and subsequently rebranded. ASL serves destinations in Oceania, Africa, Asia, East Asia, South Asia, Southwest Asia, and Europe.
EVS Broadcast Equipment SA is a Belgian company that manufactures live outside broadcast digital video production systems. Their XT-VIA production video servers enable the creation, editing, exchange and playout of audio and video feeds. Products Multicam (LSM): this is the controller software for the XT line of servers. Combined with its remote controller, it allows instant replays and slow-motion effects, widely used in sport broadcast. XS: this is the […]
The Ansembourg Museum (Musée d’Ansembourg) is a museum in the Belgian city of Liège. It is housed in the hôtel d’Ansembourg on Féronstrée in the historic heart of the city. Its collections originated as part of those of the Institut archéologique liégeois (IAL), founded on 4 April 1850. Its archaeological and decorative arts collections were displayed in the Prince-Bishops’ Palace, then in the university […]
The Fort de Flémalle is one of twelve forts built as part of the fortifications of Liège in the late 19th century in Belgium. It was built between 1881 and 1884 according to the plans of General Henri Alexis Brialmont. Contrasting with the French forts built in the same era by Raymond Adolphe Séré de Rivières, the fort was built exclusively of […]
Liège Cathedral, otherwise St. Paul’s Cathedral, Liège, in Liège, Belgium, is part of the religious heritage of Liège. Founded in the 10th century, it was rebuilt from the 13th to the 15th century and restored in the mid-19th century. It became a Roman Catholic cathedral in the 19th century due to the destruction of Saint Lambert’s Cathedral in 1795. […]
Montagne de Bueren is a 374-step staircase in Liège, Belgium. The staircase is named after Vincent de Bueren, who defended Liège against an attack by the Duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bold in the 15th century. It was built in 1881 to honour the 600 soldiers who died in the battle. In 2013, Montagne de Bueren was ranked as #1 on The Huffington […]
The Curtius Museum (Musée Curtius) is a museum of archaeology and decorative arts, located on the bank of the Meuse River in Liège, classified as a Major Heritage of Wallonia. It was built sometime between 1597 and 1610 as a private mansion for Jean Curtius, industrialist and munitions supplier to the Spanish army. With its alternating layers of red brick and natural stone, and […]
The Airspace Indoor Skydiving is a free fall flight simulator located in Gosselies in Belgium , in the immediate vicinity of Charleroi-Brussels-South airport . The tunnel is 18 meters high, 4.30 meters in diameter and the wind tunnel allowing to simulate free fall has a power of 800 kWh . The wind is propelled through the tunnel at a speed ranging from 200 to 310 km / h . At the time of its inauguration, it […]
The Bois du Cazier was a coal mine in what was then the town of Marcinelle, near Charleroi, in Belgium which today is preserved as an industrial heritage site. It is best known as the location of a major mining disaster that took place on August 8, 1956 in which 262 men, including a large number of Italian labourers, were killed. Aside from memorials […]