From the map, she looks like a golden pearl, set in the center of the Western European continent. This "central advantage" makes her get a lot of favor. European economic **** the same body, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are headquartered here, so that she enjoys the "capital of Western Europe," the name.
Brussels is also an ancient city with a long history and many places of interest. As early as 979 A.D., Duke Charles chose the island of St. Georges on the Sennar River to settle, and Brussels developed as the center of the city, and was positioned as the capital of Belgium when it gained independence in 1830. Walking in the streets and alleys of Brussels, a majestic ancient buildings are particularly eye-catching, and was built in the 12th century, Brussels, the Grand Place more unique style shows the city's former glory. Square is located in the center of Brussels, covers an area of 3400 square meters, the entire ground by a clear granite pavement, surrounded by Gothic, Renaissance, Louis XIV and other styles of buildings surrounded by a patchwork of unique scenery.
The Swan Café on the side of the square is a unique and significant building. This five-story building was originally a hotel, the door is decorated with a white swan with spreading wings ready to fly, the swan pure white elegant, noble and generous, with unlimited beauty. 1845 February, Marx moved from Paris to Brussels on the cafe. In April of the same year, Engels also came from Paris, the café became an important place for the activities of the two revolutionary mentors. The "****ist Committee of Correspondence" and the "German Workers' Association" were born here. The Syllabus on Feuerbach, the German Ideology, the Poverty of Philosophy, the ****productivist Manifesto and other great works were also published here, and a "****productivist specter" traveled in the western part of the world from then on, and soon influenced the whole world.
The majestic Brussels City Hall is adjacent to the Swan Café. This typical ancient Franco-Gothic building was built in 1402 and lasted 78 years until 1480. The hall is wonderfully and skillfully decorated. There are portraits of famous historical figures from different periods and countries, including famous Belgian monarchs, Spanish, Dutch and French monarchs who ruled over Brussels, and Napoleon's portrait is still so unbeatable. The hall is like a museum, showing the changing history of the Belgian nation. And the city hall chief's office in the French King Louis XIV's bronze statue and the famous painter Rubens's large oil paintings of the background, looks light and chic, ancient, revealing the interior director of the elegant artistic taste.
The world-famous statue of the "First Citizen of Brussels" stands in Eduliffe Alley near the Grand Place. It is a lifelike bronze statue of a boy named Yulian. His hair is curly and fluffy, his little nose is turned upwards, and his bare round buttocks are spreading a curved stream of urine like no one's business. Its shape and appearance, Chu Chu moving, ridiculous and lovely. Under the statue and the fountain is connected, so less than Lian's urine will never dry up. Carnival, Yu Lian will change the urine beer day, tourists scramble to drink, unique interest. About Yu Lian's life, there are a variety of legends: some say that he was in the robbers set fire to a bubble of urine to extinguish the sparks to save the city; some say that foreign invaders attempted to blow up the city, Yu Lian stood up and urinated to extinguish the fuse, his own death by arrows; some say that he loves to stand on the roof of the building to the mortician to urinate, provoked the goddess of the passer-by, punished him for ever to urinate. 1698, the governor of Bavaria passed through this place, reading In 1698, the governor of Bavaria passed by and, realizing that he was standing naked in the biting wind, gave him a gold silk gown to wear. This move attracted guests have followed suit, they scrambled to have their own national characteristics of the clothing given to Xiaoyulian, so much so that his clothes to set up a museum to collect. There are two sets of Chinese gifts, one is the Chinese People's Liberation Army uniforms, the other is the 1979 Brussels Millennium Celebration, Beijing sent a special gift of the Han Chinese lapel small trouser coat set. Every October 1, Xiaoyulian put on this outfit, a ridiculously cute posture.
The Grand Place in Brussels has gone through nearly a thousand years of vicissitudes, and is now the city's bustling zone, the center of public activity. The flower market every morning and the bird market every Sunday make the square like a natural meadow, with hundreds of flowers and birds, a scene of springtime and joy.
The biennial August "Grand Place Flower Carpet Festival" has become a major event for Brussels citizens. "Carpet Festival" on the occasion of the square, such as mountains and seas, a picture of wonderland, the center of the square is colorful flowers paved into a huge rectangular "carpet", "carpet" in the middle of the set Three round fountains, falling pearls splashing jade-like refraction of the brilliant waves of light, constituting a "carpet of flowers" strange and beautiful pattern. The "carpet of flowers" consists of more than one million begonias. These colorful begonias are from the Ghent area about 100 kilometers from Brussels, the countryside fields, carefully collected by the flower farmers, overnight transported to Brussels, and then by the florists carefully woven, converging into a sea of flowers. 1994, in order to celebrate the "World War II" in the Allied and Belgian forces --- "Biron Brigade", "Biron Brigade", "Biron Brigade", "Biron Brigade", "Biron Brigade" and "Biron Brigade". -The emblem of the "Biron Brigade". Brilliant sunshine, this piece of colorful "carpet of flowers" shine colorful, magnificent, that a bunch of fragrant fighting begonias, that a burst of refreshing intoxicating fragrance, because of that unforgettable amount of history and more colorful, more fragrant.
Ancient and prosperous Brussels, Athens colorful square, desirable, intoxicating. Prestigious old buildings, magnificent modern buildings, let a person feeling, let a person excited.
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and the world of tourists, both inside and outside the building is filled with a rich atmosphere of city life: cafes, bars, seafood stores, cold drinks, clothing stores, flower stores, lined up. Many of these stores are centuries old, and Marx, Engels and Hugo were once their guests of honor. Nowadays, the Grand Place of Brussels plays quite an important role in the recreational life of the citizens. Around New Year's, it is a Christmas market, where people shop and revel; in May every year, it hosts Brussels' annual "Summer Beach Volleyball Tournament", where people pile up sand from the sea in the open space of the square to feel the excitement of beach sports; in August every two years, it is the "Grand Place Flower and Carpet Festival", where people use the flowers and carpets of the Grand Place to enjoy the festivities. In August every two years, it is the "Grand Plaza Flower Carpet Festival", in which people use hundreds of tons of fresh flower petals to put together a giant "flower carpet" covering the granite floor of the square, turning the square into a sea of flowers. In the morning, the square is a flower market, and in the evening, it becomes a bird market. In the second floor balcony of the City Hall, there are often new couples in front of the mayor after the registration of the wedding hand in hand to greet friends and relatives and visitors to the square, to accept the people's cheers and blessings, and then get into the limousine, leading the caravan around the square all week, all the way to the street outside the siren. These activities, these scenes, are rich in human interest and city mood, so you can not help but echo the great writer Hugo aria: this is really a colorful stage.