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TRAVEL TO BRUSSELS

editor — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 12:25:00 +0000

It started with a castle on the Zenne island in the 10th century and already had a fortified wall in 1100. This protection was transformed into a commercial place on the important trade route from Cologne to Bruges. The second city wall in the 14th century already surrounded the upper and lower city, the upper city being the home of the rich merchants, while the lower part developed in the 18th and 19th centuries as a newly formed political center. Brussels became the capital of the Burgundian Netherlands. In the 15th century Brussels experienced a great intellectual prosperity and played

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BRUSSELS MAP

editor — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 06:40:00 +0000

Since the world exhibition of 1958 the Belgium capital is the most important meeting and work center of the institutions of the European Economic Community. The EEC Council of Ministers and the EEC Commission are here as well as the NATO. In a valley and on the hill slopes, Brussels is geographically in the center of the country, a border between the Loss polders and the Geest countryside as well as the lingual border between Flanders and ‘La Wallonie’. The 150.000 inhabitants are divided into two parts: the Upper and Lower City. With housing and industrial areas covering almost 20

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