Belgium Country Guide | Guide to Belgium
Country Guide Belgium
Population: 10,419,000
Currency: euro (EUR)
Religions: Roman Catholic 75%, Protestant or other 25%
Government: federal parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarch
Languages: Dutch (official) 60%, French (official) 40%, German (official) less than 1%, legally bilingual (Dutch and French)
Climate: temperate; mild winters, cool summers; rainy, humid, cloudy
Phone Code: 32
Photos of Belgium
Photos of Belgium by Paul Dodson, courtesy of Observations of an Unimportant Man.
Festivals in Belgium
Ommegang [article]
International Regatta of Bathtubs - La Regate des Baignoires [article]
Brussels Jazz Marathon [snippet]
Laundry Day - Antwerp [photo gallery]
Laundry Day [photo gallery]
Procession of the Holy Blood [video]
International Kite Festival Oostende [video]
Fête de la Musique [web site]
Brussels Festival of the Arts [web site]Belgium Accommodation
Hotels in BelgiumBelgium Flights
2camels has searched the web for airlines that fly to Belgium. We feature only hand picked links (like the one above to VLM Airlines) through to airline sites that feature flights to Belgium.
Belgium Tours
Tours in BelgiumBelgian Reading
With Lonely Planet's new "Belgium and Luxembourg" in hand, you will wind your way to Brussels Grand Place, discover the country's finest baroque guild halls, popular pavement cafes and intimate cellar restaurants and admire the zany, intellectual comic-strip-art displayed with Art Nouveau at the Centre Belge de la Bande. Tour picturesque Bruges, one of Europe's best preserved medieval cities, glimpsing the famous relic of Christ's blood, or bring the house down at the "party city" port of Antwerp where one can find eclectic restaurants alongside a red-light district, right-wing politics next to cutting edge fashion, and baroque art and architecture flanking trendy nightclubs.
- 39 detailed maps, including a full colour Brussels metro map
- accommodations for all budgets, from gites d'etapes to five star hotels
- comprehensive guide to the clubs and cafes of Brussels, Antwerp and Luxembourg City
- cycling options throughout the region from the flat Flanders coast up into the scenic Ardennes
- special sections on Belgian beer and chocolate
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Further Belgium Resources
Trabel [web site]Click here for the full range of Belgium web resources


