Belgium - Highlights
When it comes to culture Brussels wears the crown, offering visitors everything from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Belgium and Victor Horta's art nouveau masterpieces to niche collections like the Musical Instruments Museum.
Get to grips with Belgian culture and history at venues outside the capital. Awaken the ghosts of World War One at the Flanders battlefields, or learn about the harrowing treatment of the country's Jews at Mechelen's Museum of Jewish Deportation and Resistance. Focus on the life and works of Rubens in the painter's former Antwerp home, the Rubens House, or see naive Flemish art in Bruges' Groeninge Museum.
Drink coffee to a backdrop of grandiose 17th-century architecture on Brussels' Grand-Place, or watch the sun set over Antwerp's renaissance City Hall. Visit Ghent's imposing St. Bavo Cathedral , or the equally impressive Collegiate Church of Our Lady in Dinant. Take a magical boat tour through subterranean chambers of stalactites and stalagmites at the Caves of Han in Namur.
Visit Tintin at the Belgian Centre of Comic Strip Art in Brussels. Speed around the go-kart track or build sandcastles as grand as Belgium's ancient fortifications on the beaches around Ostende. Take to the water and explore Bruges' canals by boat.
Save money sightseeing in the capital and purchase the Brussels Card, which gives discounts at museums, shops and restaurants as well as free public transport for 72 hours.
Get into the holiday mood as you listen to Sun Ra by Belgian Indie band Deus. The lyrics may not quite fit, but the sentiment Something Wonderfulis fitting for a tour of Belgium, so plug into this tune by the Revolting Cocks, one the country's most famous musical exports.
