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Wonderful weekend in a hotel in the centre of Brussels

City break to Brussels

I just arrived in my Brussels hotel and everything so far looks really great here. Brussels is both the capital city of Belgium and home to some of the most important political institutions of the European Union. The European Commission and Council of the European Union are headquartered in Brussels. It's also the political seat of NATO. Yet this is far from a colorless city of bureaucrats in suits. Brussels has an extensive park system and boasts a comprehensive bus and tram network. With the majority of the main sights in walking distance from my hotel in Brussel this will be a great city to explore. A real favourite of mine, every time I go I always seem to find somewhere new, whatever hotel in Brussel I'm staying at!

A visit to Brussels should see you enter into a very enjoyable city that is also the capital of Belgium and which has in its center a place known as the Petit Ring that is surrounded by fourteenth century walls and which is cut up into three distinct districts with the Lower Town in the western part of the city that caters to the middle and lower class families, while in the eastern part you will find the Upper Town that hosts the upper class Belgian families. In between these two districts is a boulevard where you will find many venues for shopping as also bars, restaurants and cafes.

The boulevard also goes through The Grand Place (that's the area where my previous hotel Brussel was located) is the heart of the city and which sees many local people as well as tourists thronging there. If you want to visit museums in Brussels, then you would have to go to a part of the city that lies beyond the Petit Ring’s eastern walls and where you will find Parc Leopold that houses three large museums. And, for those that would much rather experience the arty side of Brussels, they could visit St. Giles that lies to the south of Brussels’ center and which is a very trendy district of Brussels. And, the royal family of Belgium has their residence beyond the northern part of Brussels at a location named Laeken.

If you like shopping, staying a weekend or longer in a hotel Brussels is totally it! You could check out Galeries Saint Hubert-Sint Hubertusgalerijen that has the proud honor of being the first shopping mall in the world. There are many typical department stores, cafes, bookstores and also tiny diners and a cinema in this wonderful shopping destination. Another alternative would be to visit Marche aux Puces-Vlooienmarkt that is a flea market situated in Place du Jeu de Balle-Vossenplein where you can get every different variety of things at rock bottom prices.

There is plenty of history and modernity found in Brussels that are so impressive that many consider it as being a Mecca for sightseeing. Unsurprisingly, many hotels in Brussel have made art their specialty. You would do well to pay a visit to Palais Royal, the Cathedral, the Musees Royaux des Beaux Arts, the Musees Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire as well as the Atomium. In spite of these impressive places to see, Brussels is still best known for its beer and you would do well to visit the breweries, pubs and also the bars that dot the city and which will give visitors a true feeling of Brussels that its many landmarks may fail to do.