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Brussels, Belgium

Things to do in Brussels

Everything in the Atlas for Brussels: places to see and things to do, in one list.

Grand-Place

Rebuilt in five years after a French bombardment flattened it in 1695, which is why a medieval square is uniformly late baroque.

Square · 1 hour

Royal Museums of Fine Arts

Four museums in one, and the Magritte collection is the largest anywhere — 200-odd works, which is enough to see him stop being a joke and start being a painter.

Museum · 3 hours

A lambic brewery, spontaneously fermented

Beer left open to the air of one valley, aged three years in barrel — the last place in the world doing this at scale.

Cellar & vineyard · moderate

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