Brussels - Touristic Guide

 Grand Place
 The Grand Place is the central market square of Brussels. It is surrounded by guild houses the city spectacular Town Hall and the Breadhouse (Maison du Roi). Is the most important tourist destination and most memorable landmark in Brussels. In 1998 the Grand Place was named by UNESCO as a Word Heritage Site.

 The constructions that surround the square had been rebuilded in stone from the varied corporations in the successive years. Their engagement moderate the comfort citizens and from the Governor of Brussels. The projects had been submitted to the authority for the approval and from that achieved a harmonious reconstruction, although the architectural competition of styles different, from the gothic one until the baroque and to the style Luigi XIV. In the house of the corporation of the manufacturers of beer it has its seat today the museum of the manufacturers of beer Belgiums.

 Hotel of Ville
 The Hotel of Ville (in duch: Stadhuis) was build between 1402-1455 under direction of Jacob van Thienen.The tower style is gothic. Above the roof of the Town Hall, the square tower body narrows to a lavishly pinnacled octagonal openwork. Atop the spire stands a 5-meter-high gilt metal statue of the Archangel Michael patron saint of Brussels, slaying a dragon or devil.

 Maison du Roi
 The Maison du Roi was since the XII century a building in structural wood where it is sold the bread. A memory of the primitive function is remained in the name in flemish. The building in wood was replaced during the XV century from one in stone, destined to the administrative services of the duke of the Brabante. In the XVIII century the building entirely was restored in the style neogotic.

 Cathedral San Michele and Holy Gudula
 The Cathedral San Michele and Holy Gudula is located at the Treurenberg hill in Brussels, Belgium.
 Its construction was undertaken in the beginning of the XIII century under the impulse of the duke of the Brabante, Henri I, and lasted beyond three centuries. The last phase of the construction was completed within the XVI and the XVII century.
 It was at the origin dedicated to the religion of San Michele Archangel, before transported the relics of Holy Gudula and, more late, the official name associated these two holy without other connection.

 Manneken-Pis
 The Manneken-Pis it is a bronze statue of a fifty of centimeters situated in the historical center of Brussels. This statue is the symbol of the independence of spirit of the inhabitants of Brussels. It is discussed of a fountain that it represents a small boy that it urinates. The words Manneken Pis mean in brussels (flemish dialect near the Dutch one) the little boy that urinates.
 The origin of the statue is not ascertained. Between it is one that it describes a child that would have extinguished, to its manner, the fuse of a bomb with that the enemies wanted to put the fire to the town; another one, a child lost that would have been found from its father, rich middle-class person of Brussels, in the position that itself image.

 Atomium
 The Atomium is a monument found in Heysel Park, Brussels. Atomium monument represents a unit cell of an iron crystal (body-centred cubic) magnified 165 billion times, with vertical body diagonal, with tubes along the 12 edges of the cube and from all 8 vertices to the centre.
 The atomium was built in occasion of the Expo '58, the Universal exhibition of Brussels of 1958. Planned from the architect AndréWaterkeyn, in origin was expected would be lasted for 6 months.

 Nine steel spheres 18 metres in diameter connect via tubes with escalators as long as 35 m, among the longest in Europe. Windows in the top sphere provide a panoramic view of Brussels.

 Belgian Centre For Comic Strip Art
 The Belgian Centre For Comic Strip Art it is a museum of Brussels dedicated to the world of the balloons. The center comes also familiarly called cébébédé (that is to say CB-BD: in French BD, read bédé is for bands drawing, that is to say "balloon").
 Its seat is found in street of sables 20, in a building Art Noveau realized in 1906 from Victor Horta to accommodate the large warehouses of woven Waucquez. The choice of the building is specially happy as the balloon and the art nouveau are born simultaneously. After an entire restore, the center of Belgian of bands drawing had open the doors in 1989.

 Musical Instrument Museum
 The Musical Instrument Museum is a museum in central Brussels, Belgium.
 The Musical Instrument Museum collection started in 1877. The Musical Instrument Museum is a part of the Royal Museums of Art and History.
 The collections, very rich, a lot to level of the west tools that of the distant continents today quite put in obviousness. Of the caps to the infrared it allow to listen to the big number of sounds of the tools recorded.

 Museum of Modern Art
 The Museum of Modern Art a new construction housing for belgian artists expressionism (Permeke, Wouters) or surrealism (Magritte, Delvaux), or other artists such as Matisse, Picasso, Dalí.