Willebroek (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋɪləbruk], old spelling: Willebroeck) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises the towns of Blaasveld, Heindonk, Tisselt, Klein Willebroek, and Willebroek proper.
Population: 22,808
Latitude: 51° 03' 37.48" N
Longitude: 4° 21' 36.68" E
The City Hall (Dutch: Stadhuis) of Antwerp, Belgium, stands on the western side of Antwerp's Grote Markt (Great Market Square). Erected between 1561 and 1565 after designs made by Cornelis Floris de Vriendt and several other architects and artists, …
The Siege of Antwerp took place during the Eighty Years' War from July 1584 until August 1585. At the time Antwerp was not only the largest Dutch city but was also the cultural, economic and financial centre of the Seventeen Provinces and of north-w…
Diegem is a town in the municipality of Machelen, Flemish Brabant, Belgium.
Radio Veronica was an offshore radio station that began broadcasting in 1960, and broadcast from offshore for over fourteen years.
The Flemish Parliament (Dutch: Vlaams Parlement , and formerly called Flemish Council or Vlaamse Raad) constitutes the legislative power in Flanders, for matters which fall within the competence of Flanders, both as a geographic region and a cultur…
The Church of Our Lady of Laeken (French: Église Notre-Dame de Laeken; Dutch: Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk van Laken) is a neo-Gothic Roman Catholic church in Laeken, Brussels.
The Zenne (Dutch: [ˈzɛnə]) or Senne (French: [sɛn]) is a small river that flows through Brussels, left tributary of the Dijle/Dyle. Its spring is in the village of Naast near the municipality of Soignies. It is an indirect tributary of the Scheldt, …
The Kunstberg (Dutch, pronounced ([ˈkʏnzdbɛrç]) or Mont des Arts (French, [mɔ̃dɛzaʁ]), meaning "hill/mount of the arts", is a historic site in the center of Brussels, Belgium.
Het Steen is a medieval fortress in the old city centre of Antwerp, Belgium, one of Europe's biggest ports.
Europa, also known as Residence Palace, is a complex of buildings between the Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat and the Chaussée d'Etterbeek/Etterbeeksesteenweg in the European Quarter of Brussels (Belgium). It is formed of three buildings, a press centre and…
The Olympisch Stadion (Dutch pronunciation: [o.ˈlɪm.pi.ˈstaː.di.ˌjɔn]) or Kielstadion [ˈkiɫ.staː.di.ˌjɔn]) was built as the main stadium for the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. For those games, it hosted the athletics, equestrian, field hockey, foo…
Jack O'Shea's is an award-winning international Irish butcher chain located in London and in the European district of Brussels, selling organic fresh meat.
The Ancienne Belgique (AB; French for "Old Belgium") is a concert hall for contemporary music in Brussels, Belgium.
The Royal Military Academy (French: École royale militaire, Dutch: Koninklijke Militaire School) is the military university of Belgium. The school is responsible for the education of the officers of the four components of the Belgian defence (Army, …
The Mechelen transit camp, or officially SS-Sammellager Mecheln in German, was a detention and deportation camp established in the Dossin, the oldest casern at Mechelen, by the Nazi German occupier of Belgium.
The Rubenshuis ("Rubens House") is the former home and studio of Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) in Antwerp. It is now a museum.
Brussels National Airport is a railway station located beneath Brussels Airport, Flemish Brabant, Belgium. The station opened in 1958 on the Lines 36C and Lines 25N.
The Maison du Peuple (French) or Volkshuis (Dutch) ("House of the People") in Brussels, was one of the largest works of Belgian architect Victor Horta, in the Art Nouveau style, opened on 2 April 1899. It was commissioned by the Belgian Workers' Par…