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Buy Yourself A Church In Brussels

Are you looking for some special equity? In the center of Belgium’s capital Brussels you can find a 19th century church for sale.
The chapelle Sainte-Julienne was built in 1892 by the rich Arenberg family. Later on it got into the hands of the Caritas an NGO who passed it on to the government of Brussels […]

Amsterdam Loves Belgium

I was in Amsterdam last week and was pretty happy when I encountered various things that made me remember Belgium. Wandering around this lovely city I came across two Belgian fries tents and a square named after a character from the comic book ‘Tintin’.

The snackbar with Belgian fries was very funny. It had for example […]

Brewery ‘Liefmans’ definitively bankrupt

It’s a sad day for beer lovers: the Belgian beer landscape just got a little poorer as the Liefmans brewery ceases to exist. When judges declared the company bankrupt in december brewery Liefmans went to a higher court, but unfortunately they couldn’t convince the court of their plan to save the brewery.

It’s a strange story, […]

Tintin Painting Sold For Record Price

764 200 euro: that’s the price a comic book lover paid for the Tintin painting above by Belgian comic book writer and artist Hergé. It’s the highest price ever paid for an original comics drawing. The previous record holder was “Lady in Blue” by Enki Bilal that changed hands for ‘only’ 177 000 euro.
The painting […]