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256 lugares · 742 museos
Belgium packs Flemish masters, comic strips, Art Nouveau and chocolate into a small country where every town has its own museum – and its own beer.
In Brussels, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts take you from Bruegel to Magritte, Victor Horta's house shows Art Nouveau from the door handle to the staircase, and the Comics Art Museum honours Tintin and the Smurfs in a Horta building. Antwerp has the Rubens House, the printing workshop of Plantin-Moretus – the first museum on the UNESCO World Heritage list – and the MAS by the docks. In Ghent, the Van Eyck brothers' Ghent Altarpiece waits in St Bavo's Cathedral; in Bruges, the Groeninge Museum and Memling's paintings in a medieval hospital. Liège, Mons and Namur add castles, citadels and the French-speaking south, and Ypres remembers the First World War in Flanders Fields. Names change with the language – Antwerpen and Anvers, Luik and Liège – so look twice at the signs. This museumtickets.com guide follows Belgium province by province.
From the cloth cities to Tintin, follow Belgium through its museums.
Rich cloth cities pay painters like Van Eyck and Memling, who paint with oil so fine that you see every pearl and every hair.
Para verlo: Groeninge MuseumChristophe Plantin runs the largest printing house of his time in Antwerp; his presses, letters and library are still in place.
Para verlo: Museum Plantin-Moretus →Peter Paul Rubens builds a palace-studio in Antwerp and paints for the kings and churches of Europe.
Para verlo: Rubenshuis →South of Brussels, Napoleon is defeated in one day of battle by Wellington and Blücher.
Para verlo: Memorial 1815 →Victor Horta builds houses where iron, glass and wood curve like plants – Brussels becomes a capital of the new style.
Para verlo: Horta Museum →The front line runs through West Flanders for four years; around Ypres, poppies grow on the old battlefields.
Para verlo: In Flanders Fields Museum →Hergé draws Tintin for a Brussels newspaper, and Belgium becomes the land of the comic strip – painted on its city walls today.
Para verlo: Comics Art MuseumDuchesses, a lawyer, a spy and a painter who bought Van Gogh.
Duchess of Burgundy who ruled the Low Countries; her tomb lies in the Church of Our Lady in Bruges.
Para verlo: Church of Our Lady, BrugesGovernor of the Netherlands from her court in Mechelen, collector of art and patron of artists and scholars.
Para verlo: Hof van Busleyden →Painter and collector – the only person known to have bought a painting by Van Gogh during his life, The Red Vineyard.
Para verlo: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of BelgiumThe first woman in Belgium to earn a doctorate in law, refused the right to plead – and she fought for women's rights for the rest of her life.
A young shop assistant who spied for the Allies in the First World War and was executed in Brussels; schools and streets carry her name.
Para verlo: Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military HistoryNames that come back in Belgian museums.
The Ghent Altarpiece and portraits so real they seem alive.
Para verlo: St Bavo's CathedralPeasant weddings, winter landscapes and Icarus falling while life goes on.
Para verlo: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of BelgiumHuge, moving altarpieces full of colour and bodies.
Para verlo: Rubenshuis →Masks, skeletons and crowds from the seaside town of Ostend.
Para verlo: Mu.ZEE →A pipe that is not a pipe, bowler hats and blue skies in a dark street.
Para verlo: Magritte Museum →Frites, chocolate, waffles – and a beer for every glass.
Mussels steamed with celery and onion, served in the pot with crisp fries.
Fried twice, served in a paper cone with mayonnaise or one of a dozen sauces.
The light, rectangular Brussels waffle or the dense, sugared Liège waffle – try both.
The filled praline was invented in Brussels; every town has its chocolatiers.
Beef stewed slowly in dark beer with bread and mustard, served with fries.
Trappist and abbey beers, sour lambics from around Brussels – Belgian beer culture is on UNESCO's heritage list.
Processions, giants and carnival.
The Gilles in wax masks and ostrich feathers dance through town and throw oranges to the crowd.
Bruges carries its relic through the streets with hundreds of people in costume.
St George fights the dragon on the main square while the crowd tries to grab hairs from its tail for luck.
A great historic procession on the Grand-Place in Brussels, remembering a visit of Emperor Charles V.
Ten days of music, theatre and street parties in Ghent.
Saint Nicholas brings presents to children in early December; Christmas markets light up Brussels, Ghent and Liège.
A one-year pass for hundreds of museums across Belgium – worth it if you visit several cities.
Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges and Liège are an hour or less apart by train.
Many towns have a Dutch and a French name: Antwerpen–Anvers, Luik–Liège, Bergen–Mons, Gent–Gand.
Many museums close on Monday; check before you travel.
En museumtickets.com: 742 museos con fotos, cómo llegar y los museos cercanos. Guarda tus favoritos en el Pasaporte cultural gratuito y, cuando el museo lo ofrece, paga tu entrada por adelantado.
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