Christmas In Brussels

Christmas In Brussels

Each year - starting on December 1st - the center of Brussels becomes a Christmas village. The Grand-Place and its neighbouring streets become an appendix of the house of Santa. This year, the guest city of Brussels is Tallinn, capital of the Estonian Republic and you will be able to study its specialities throughout your lope in the Christmas village.

From the spot Saint-Jean up to the region Sainte-Catherine, while passing by the Bourse (Belgian Stock Exchange), and the Fish Market, 220 Christmas country cottages consume situation and transform our capital into a "Christmas Tales Village" where you collect thousands of gifts ideas.

Leave the region Saint-Jean and go to the Grand-Place. The Grand-Place was transformed into a fairy Christmas region. It receives a monumental quick-witted installation and comes attend to the Christmas traditions and valid amazement for childhood. A astounding sound and light point to takes area each day and is supplemented by concerts every saturday.

The Hotel de Ville, the King's House and other constructions dating from the XVIth century will fascinate you. Did you know that the Hotel de Ville of Brussels was built in the true center of the city and that Charles-Quint himself posed the first stone during its construction? Do not hesitate to visit it and stare the Pentagon (in fact, our city is a pentagon) paved in its center.

Leave the Grand-Place by the Rue au Beurre and glance our Brussels lace stores and tapestries containing tons of novel gifts ideas. The Rue au Beurre crossed, you are at the Bourse and enter the Christmas village: country cottages are already installed, the craftsmen await you and propose to you, in addition to the gifts, the opportunity of tasting scrumptious winter specialities from their countries or drinking a hot wine or another reinvigorating drink.

Continue your lunge by the street Devaux and the street Sainte-Catherine. On the residence Sainte-Catherine, the Ice Monster and the sunless Tower as of the horse-gears will be a actual pleasure for your children. While waiting for them, visit the Tallinn Christmas Village craftsmen who precisely indicate to this spot.

Enter the Fish Market and spy the Skating Rink. It is the essential attraction of the Brussels winter. The children can safely stride on a shrimp track arranged for them. support an notice on your children while tasting a drink in the mountain brewery being next to the skating rink.

The raze of this excursion in the Brussels Christmas Village is the titanic Wheel ; located fair after the skating rink. The spectacle of this big machine is even more staggering when the night falls and its 18.000 bulbs ignite.

While walking through the Brussels Christmas Market you will also meet concerts, plays, processions, troops of travelling artists who will brighten your procedure by their art and their beauty.

During one month, Brussels joins again with its past of approved attractions and becomes a city with the colors of the winter and traditions of Christmas.