hotels brussels Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/hotels-brussels Tue, 14 Jun 2016 19:35:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 TRAVEL TO BRUSSELS http://toursmaps.com/travel-to-brussels.html http://toursmaps.com/travel-to-brussels.html#respond Sat, 18 Jun 2016 12:25:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=206218 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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