Each Belgian town has its own beer flavor and beer glass shape! It is a flavor or the locally brewed beer and the special shape of a beer glass! There’s hardly a single town in Belgium where they would NOT brew they own beer by a unique formula. Same goes for design: Belgian beer glasses [...]

As a fashion city Antwerp owes its reputation to the pioneers of the fashion movement, the so-called ‘Antwerp Six’: Walter Van Beirendonck, Ann Demeulemeester, Dries Van Noten, Dirk Van Saene, Dirk Bikkembergs and Marina Yee travelled to London and Paris together in the Eighties as well as Martin Margiela (the seventh). Together the Antwerp six [...]

Antwerp, once the biggest European port and the home to the famous Rubens’ Art Academy, is best known as the Europe’s center of diamonds trade. The city of Antwerp is an interesting touristic attraction from many perspectives, of which 57 perspectives of light are reflected in the facets of the famous Antwerp Diamond, the Round [...]

Manneken Pis is the Belgium’s Brussels’ landmark. It is a small bronze fountain sculpture depicting a naked little boy urinating into the fountain’s basin. Mannekenpis is the Brussels’ most famous statues. But not many tourists know that he actually has a girlfriend, Jeanneken Pis!

Belgian Trappist Beers Among the dozen or so surviving abbey breweries in Europe, six are Trappist and located in Belgium, all established in their present form by Trappists who left France after the turbulence of the Napoleonic period. Rich dark ales produced solely by monks according to centuries-old methods in the six following monasteries; Chimay, [...]