It was one of the largest prisoner-of-war (POW) camps in western Europe, holding nearly 60,000 Germans from March 1945 to August 1946. Yet today Prisoner-of-War Camp 2228 looks like a non-descript ...

Despite its grandeur, Place Royale in Brussels is blighted by traffic. The current renovation project aims to create a more inviting public area, featuring newly laid cobbles, restored pavements and ...

On a wing and a prayer: The Belgian wartime hero who broke the Nazi defence Baron Jean de Selys Longchamps pulled off one of the most audacious, unauthorised flying feats of World War II to earn his ...

Brussels’ tiniest commune, Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, may lack space for the living, but its cemetery in nearby Schaerbeek is rich in stories of the dead. We tread its shaded paths to find revolutionaries ...

The Strépy-Thieu boat lift is the heavyweight champion of waterway engineering: a mechanical colossus that hoists ships skyward like a magician pulling a rabbit from a hat. But it’s just one act in a ...

The museum contains an exhibition in the so-called meditation hall where new candidates applying to become members of the Freemason lodge are received. There is also a “Temple” inside the building ...

King Philippe visited Belgium’s national football team in Los Angeles on Thursday, a day before their 2026 World Cup ...

The linguistic divide: Unraveling Belgium's struggles of identity and autonomy The events of January 1968 shocked Belgium. In Leuven, French-speaking students and professors, together with their ...

Public transport in Brussels will be strengthened on 20 and 21 July for Belgian National Day festivities. STIB-MIVB, the Brussels public transport operator, will run significantly more metros, trams ...

The reinvention of Brussels' European Quarter aims for a blend of housing, culture, and sustainable development - a leap from its current repute as a monofunctional office district. If you’re visiting ...

Europe’s cocaine trade is booming and the drug’s gateway of choice is now the port of Antwerp. As the market has grown, so too have the drug gangs who find ever more ingenious ways to smuggle it in, ...

The library was destroyed again directly after Nazi-Germany’s invasion of Belgium in the next world war and rebuilt brick by brick after the war as a sign of Leuven’s resilience and spirit. Today, the ...