Brussels is a famous tourist city in Europe, known as "Little Paris". In the city there are many attractions and museums, outside the city there are dense forests, rippling small lakes and grassy meadows. One of the most impressive to the tourists is the Brussels "three big things": the first citizen less than Lian, the atomic ball tower and the Waterloo battlefield. Landscape: Waterloo Battlefield, Brussels Atomic Tower, urinating children, Brussels Square, Victor Horta Museum.
Located in the center of the city's Grand Place, built in the 12th century A.D., the entire square is rectangular, surrounded by Gothic buildings in the shape of a burning flame, the City Hall's spire is 85 meters high, the top of the tower is a 5-meter-high statue of the patron saint of the city of Brussels, the hall painted on the ceiling of the wonderful pattern, and the collection of historical celebrities of the huge portraits as well as a huge oil painting of the famous painter Rubens. Nearby are shopping streets and restaurants, and Europe's oldest shopping street, Galeries St. Hubert, is also on the site.
The world-famous bronze statue of the "Peeing Child" stands on the north side of the main square, about half a meter high, and is a realistic image of a naked child peeing with his back to the ground. It is said that more than 500 years ago, this little boy named Yulian doused the fuse of the invaders with his urine and saved the residents of the city, so this statue was erected in his honor. The Maisondu Roi (House of the King) next to the square has a collection of hundreds of costumes of peeing children from all over the world, and is worth a look.
Brussels Park is a favorite resting place for Brussels citizens. The city's St. Michael's Church and the Royal Palace building are in the vicinity of Brussels Park and house the Royal Guard. In addition, famous attractions include the Atomic Energy Museum in the northwest of Brussels and the Waterloo Battlefield in the southern suburbs.
Brussels is situated at the crossroads of the Flemish-speaking north and the French-speaking south, and both scripts are used in the city streets and public **** advertisements, with French being the main language of socialization. Brussels is home to the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union. Brussels has some of the finest architecture and museums in Europe, with skyscrapers and medieval buildings. The city is centered around the Royal Palace and built along the Petit Ring, and is best explored on foot. Brussels' buildings, from the medieval Grand Place to the post-modern European Union complex, contain a variety of elements and cultural symbols.
The most famous buildings in Brussels include the Grand Place with the Brussels City Hall at its center (designated a World Heritage Site in 1988), the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudule, and the Royal Castle of Lacan, famous for its huge glass conservatory. Another landmark of Brussels is the Royal Palace of Brussels.
The Atomium Tower, located in Hessel Park, is a monumental metal structure built when Brussels hosted the 1958 World's Fair. The building is made up of nine large aluminum spheres with a diameter of 18 meters, each representing an atom, with the spheres connected by hollow steel tubes, and the spheres and the steel tubes connecting them forming a square pattern. This square is equivalent to the square crystal structure of alpha iron magnified 165 billion times. Next to the Atomic Sphere Tower is the Mini-European Park, a collection of 1/25th miniature replicas of famous European buildings.
Another iconic sight in Brussels is the statue of the Little Pisser, known as "Brussels' First Citizen," a bronze statue that is a must-see for visitors.
Other notable attractions in Brussels include the Fiftieth Anniversary Park, which commemorates the 50th anniversary of Belgium's independence, the Sacré-Coeur Sacré-Coeur, the Brussels Stock Exchange, the Palais de Justice in Brussels, and a series of buildings for the European Union organization.
Cultural facilities in Brussels include the Brussels Theater and the historic Royal Mint Theater (La Monnaie). There are also a variety of museums, including the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, which houses a large collection of Rubens' works, the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History, and the Belgian Center for Comic Art.
The Arc de Triomphe in Sesquicentennial Park
The city center of Brussels is characterized by its Flemish architecture, as well as buildings designed by Victor Horta, a representative of the Art Nouveau movement. As one of the birthplaces of the Art Nouveau movement, many of the buildings in Brussels bear the Art Nouveau style, with those in the districts of Schaerbeek, Etterbeek, Ixelles and Saint-Gilles being particularly worth seeing. Another typical example of the Art Nouveau style is the Palais de la Stockade, designed by architect Josef Hoffmann.
Brussels was also an active stage for many great artists. The famous Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte studied here. The city has also given birth to many famous serialized comics, such as The Adventures of Tintin, Lucky Luke, Gaston, Cubitus and Marsupilami. Many of the city's building facades and subway stations are painted with characters from the comics. And the Belgian Comics Museum, which focuses on so much comic art, is itself an Art Nouveau building designed by Victor Horta.
The 50,000-seat King Baudouin Stadium is Belgium's largest stadium and is used for sports competitions and concerts. The stadium was previously known as the Hessel Stadium, but after the Hessel tragedy in 1985, the stadium went into a downturn. The stadium was then remodeled and renamed.
The Pissing Kid, one of the world's most famously adorable children, is a must-see for visitors to Brussels. His statue, made of bronze and 60 centimeters high, was erected in 1619 on the corner of Rudel'Etuve and RuedeChene in the center of Brussels.
There are several versions of the legend of this statue, the best known being that it commemorates a young boy named Yulian, whose mischievous behavior extinguished a bomb that was about to detonate the entire city hall. Another legend has it that the urinating boy was the personification of DuckGodfrey III, who in 1142, as a baby of a few months old, was taken to the battlefield of Ransebeke, where his cradle hung from a tree branch to inspire the troops, who had been disheartened by his father's death. As the army was preparing to retreat, the young duke suddenly stood up from the cradle and assumed the pose of the later fountain statue, which was to galvanize the morale of the moment and turn defeat into victory.
Because of his popularity, all parties liked to send the little boy clothes, the first came from King Louis XV of France. It has become customary for heads of state to send him a set of his country's traditional clothes when they visit Belgium. To date, he has more than 700 different outfits, including a People's Liberation Army uniform from China and a set of Chinese lapel pants. These are on display at the MaisonDuRoi, and he celebrates certain special anniversaries by wearing the appropriate garments.
Royal Museum of Art
The famous Royal Museum of Art, located in the northern part of the Grand Place district, exhibits the works of many of Belgium's most famous painters from antiquity to the present day, such as RoberCampin, RogervanderWeyden, Peter BreugheltheElder and many others.
The museum is divided into the Gallery of Classical Art and the Gallery of Modern Art. The former exhibits classical paintings up to the 18th century A.D. and is divided by color. The blue section is for works of the 15th-16th centuries, the most famous of which is Peter Breughel's "the Fall of Icarus"; the brown section exhibits works of the 17th-18th centuries. The latter is also color-coded. In the yellow section, there are masterpieces from neo-classicism, romanticism, realism to symbolism; in the green section, modern art and sculpture are mainly displayed, such as Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, Surrealism, and the famous surrealist artists, such as Dali's "The Temptation of St. Anthony" and Francis' "Bacon's Lords" and "The Temptation of St. Anthony". The famous surrealist artists Dali's "The Temptation of St. Anthony" and Francis' "Bacon's Lords and the Pope" can be taken as representatives. St. Michael's and St. Gudule's Cathedral
The history of the cathedral began in 1047 with the construction of the original St. Michael's Chapel, and in 1226 a major expansion of the church was begun, which lasted for two and a half centuries before it was completed, and thus the cathedral combines a wide range of architectural styles, from Romanesque art to the height of the Gothic art period. The interior of the cathedral is 110 meters long, 50 meters wide and 26 meters high, making it magnificent. The columns of the nave are decorated with statues of the 12 disciples of Jesus. The Museum of Comics is located in an unassuming alleyway in a building designed by GrandMagasinWaucquez for Victor Horta, which was originally just an apartment converted into a museum of comics, with a collection of albums and animations by many of Europe's most famous cartoonists. At the entrance of the museum stands the famous Belgian journalist "Tintin" and his cute little dog. There are three floors in the Museum of Comics***. The first floor introduces how comics were created. The second floor introduces the most active Belgian cartoonists from the beginning of the last century to the 1960s. The third floor is called "The Museum of Modern Belgian Comics" and contains hundreds of exhibits summarizing the development of Belgian comics from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Brussels City Hall
One of the most striking of the many buildings in Brussels' Grand Place is the City Hall, a Goethean-style building that is a city landmark. The building was constructed in two phases, with the larger left half built in 1402 and the tower and 96-meter-high spire constructed in 1455 when the right half was built under the auspices of PhilipeleBon. At the tip of the tower is a 5-meter high weathervane, a statue of St. Michael, the patron saint of Brussels. Legend has it that the Lords of Brussels were saved by St. Michel, who awarded him the title of Patron Saint of Brussels. The corridors of the Town Hall are covered with frescoes. Among the many portraits are the monarchs of Belgium, the kings of Spain, Holland, France and Napoleon, who once ruled Brussels. The Grand Place was the center of the ancient city of Brussels and was called "the most beautiful square in the world" by the great writer Victor Hugo. The square is rectangular, 110 meters long and 68 meters wide, and the ground is paved with granite. The most eye-catching building on the square is the Brussels City Hall, which is Belgium's most typical Gothic architecture, the entire building was built in three different periods, after repeated expansion and renovation, only to reach this scale today. Opposite the City Hall was once the palace of Louis XIV of France, now the National Museum. To the left of the town hall, there is a swan statue on the door of the Swan Café, where Marx and Engels **** with the drafting of the **** Producer's Manifesto.
Other buildings around the square are mostly divided into various guild organizations, such as boatmen, tailors, stucco makers, etc., the sculpture on the door of each guild building is a sculpture of the guild's venerated figures or symbolic animals. Due to the different periods of construction, these buildings reflect a variety of architectural styles such as Gothic, Baroque, Louis XIV and so on. The Duke of Brabant's Mansion, decorated with 19 busts of the Dukes of Brabant, is the most imposing of all. Built in 1698, this group of six mansions housed the guilds of the millers, carpenters, etc., and has become the Cocoa and Chocolate Museum.
The history of the Grand Place dates back to the 12th century, when it was the first trading market in Brussels, and the first wooden buildings, almost entirely constructed by the guilds of the time, were frequented by vegetable growers, artisans, butchers and fishmongers; the square began to take shape in the 13th century with the appearance of the first indoor markets; and in the 15th century, under the rule of the Dukes of Burgundy, the square's floors were paved over and new guild houses and town halls were built, transforming the square into a place to be visited. In 1695, Louis XIV's cannon fire almost destroyed the square, but after five years of reconstruction, it looks even more magnificent, combining the best of Goethean, Renaissance and Louis XIV architecture. The Grand Place is a historical witness to many of the major revolutionary events in Belgium, and it was in this square that the revolution of 1830 broke out. Since 1971, every two years, on the weekend before and after August 15, the Place de Bruxelles has been the scene of a great celebration: the laying of a carpet of flowers. The carpet is made from begonias grown in the Ghent region and is designed with a different theme each time, with up to 800,000 flowers. The ancient battlefield of Waterloo, located near the small town of Waterloo at the end of the Sauvignonne Forest, 18 kilometers south of Brussels, is where, on the evening of June 18, 1815, the Anglo-Dutch allied forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington, as well as the Prussian army, laid siege to and ultimately defeated Napoleon, thus bringing an end to the legendary figure's history of criss-crossing Europe.
In 1826, a hill was piled up at the site where Prince William of Orange was wounded by the Allied forces, on top of which was placed a 4.5-meter-long, 4.45-meter-high, 28-ton iron lion, rumored to have been forged from guns and cannons abandoned by Napoleon's army on the battlefield. Along the 226 steep stone steps to the top of the hill, when the ancient battlefield of Waterloo can be seen, the city of Brussels also vividly. Not far from the Waterloo Monument is a bronze statue of Napoleon. In order to protect the historical relics, the ancient battlefield around the ban on farming, many farmers will be arranged into a variety of farmhouse memorial museum for tourists to visit, more worthy of seeing when Napoleon's command seat Kayou farm, panoramic painting gallery and wax museum and so on. Although Napoleon was the loser of the Battle of Waterloo, he was definitely a greater hero than the victor in people's minds, and many memorials feature Napoleon as the protagonist, while the Duke of Wellington is only lightly touched upon. Every five years, scenes from the war are reenacted on the old battlefield, with more than 2,000 locals taking part in the show. "Little Europe" is the abbreviation of Brussels' famous miniature park of European landscapes, also known as "Mini Europe", located in the picturesque Brussels Park in the northwest of Brussels. Its south is the famous "atomic ball", the north is to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Belgium's independence of the famous "Centenary Palace", these three landscapes were tripod trend, interplay, complement each other, make the world's travelers fascinated. "Little Europe" covers an area of 250,000 square meters, which is a collection of Europe's world-famous palaces, churches, monasteries, ancient castles, temples, squares, ports, towers and former residences of celebrities and other more than 300 places of interest, from all different aspects of the European history, culture, art and science and technology development, but also expressed the It also expresses the desire of European countries to strengthen the union of Europe.
Entering the park into the "Little Europe" visit is to buy tickets, but if you hold the European Union, NATO or Belgium's press card, not only can be free of charge to visit, but also free of charge to obtain a variety of information about the "Little Europe" in several languages. As soon as you enter the door of "Little Europe", you can see a "x" unique tall building model, which is located in Brussels near the Schuman Square, the European Commission office building model. In front of the building, the flags of the 15 countries of the European Union are fluttering in the wind, giving you an obvious first impression that Europe has begun to unite. Further inside are the models of the places of interest of the European countries, each separated by models of roads, rivers, green vegetation, mountains, lakes, and so on. Because I can't remember the order, much less the names of all 300-odd monuments, I can only list the names of some monuments in some countries here. Among them are the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe and Sacré-Coeur in Paris, France, Big Ben and Westminster Abbey in London, England, the Brandenburg Gate and Beethoven's former residence in Bonn, Berlin, Germany, the Leaning Tower of Pisa and Piazza San Martín in Venice, Italy, the Grande Pra?a and the Cathedral of Ghent in Brussels, Belgium, the Monastery of Escolillo, the Bullfighting Arena and the cathedrals of San Martín and Pinario in Madrid, Spain, the windmills of the Netherlands and the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Greece, Athens, the Acropolis and temples, etc., as well as the joint development of the European countries of the Ariane rocket "Airbus" aircraft and European high-speed trains, etc., the shape of a thousand different, realistic image, really breathtaking.
The real scene in the park "small Europe" within the scene is only the real scene of 1/25, in addition to the Eiffel Tower and some of the taller buildings than people slightly higher than some of the vast majority of these scenes are shorter than people. The famous Dutch windmill like an outstretched arms of the historical giants standing in the river, but here in the child's crotch; the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a 9-story tower of the world, and in the "small Europe" is only more than two meters high; airplanes, trains, ships and trucks here are like children's toys sold in the store, people and cars are smaller than a person's small head of a human being. Small is small, but it is exactly the same as the real scene in kind, whether from the whole, or from the local point of view, are exactly the same, not only the shape of the same, but also similar to God, marvelous.
In order to make some of the landscape with a sense of reality and increase its entertainment, the designers in the construction of a small Europe also used contemporary technology in the electronic, sound, light technology, specially invited some of the Belgian fairground experts to participate in the design and construction of these views. On the whole, the effect is very good, because it not only makes the "small Europe" has a "static in the dynamic" characteristics, but also make visitors excited, but also increased economic benefits. As long as you press the relevant button, there will be the following activities of the scene: in the Spanish bullfighting arena, an enraged, plagiarized bull will rush to the hand waving the red cloth matador, the audience cheered: in the rocket launching paddock, Ariane rockets have entered the countdown, suddenly, the rocket tail jet flames, blasted into the air; in the collection of goods in the Port of Rotterdam, cranes are busy loading and unloading of goods; in the Irish pasture green grass, sheep is like grass! In the green pastures of Ireland, the sheep are grazing with their heads down, and suddenly, a sheepdog is rushing to you, "woof, woof, woof" barking wildly; at Charles de Gaulle Airport in France, the "Airbus" is taxiing on the runway; on the Thames in the United Kingdom, a luxury yacht is cruising; in Germany, by the Berlin Wall, a big crane is cruising; in Germany, a big crane is cruising on the Berlin Wall. In Germany, by the Berlin Wall, a big crane is lifting a concrete wall plate; in the former residence of Beethoven in Bonn, the sound of "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" comes out from the inside. Especially at nightfall, "Little Europe" in the thousands of lights mounted on each miniature building lit up, the garden is a brilliant, the scenery is extremely spectacular.
Atomic Sphere
The symbol of the Brussels Expo, which was held at the exhibition center here in 1958, was designed by Belgium. The designers wanted to express the concept of the tiny atom through this gigantic structure, and to show the prospect of mankind's peaceful use of the atom. The idea came from the atomic structure diagram, nine huge metal spheres connected by thick steel tubes to form a square pattern. The size of the square is equivalent to the result of a square crystal of iron magnified 165 billion times. Eight orbs are located in the eight corners of the square, and another orb is located in the center of the square. The orbs are 18 meters in diameter, and the steel tubes connecting the individual orbs are each 26 meters long and 3 meters in diameter. The total weight is 2200 tons and the height is 102 meters. You can take the elevator to the top orb, which is 100 meters above the ground, to see the scenery of Brussels. Other orbs for a variety of themes in the science and technology exhibition hall. There are solar energy, peaceful use of atomic energy, space technology, astronomy and other exhibits, as well as the history of the development of the Belgian meteorological industry, satellite meteorology, meteorological radar, meteorological communications charts.
Laken Castle Conservatory Garden
Built by King Leopold II of Belgium, it has a very beautiful blueprint, he invited his royal Belgian architect Alphonse Barrat to come together to plan, to build a greenhouse garden than the garden of the Palace of Versailles is even more beautiful. This greenhouse garden is built entirely of glass and metal, has an obvious classical style, everywhere highlights the royal family's solemnity and grandeur, and even known as Europe's most beautiful greenhouse garden, it is said that King Leopold II for him to devote a lot of effort, the roof of the crown is designed by him personally. 19th century European houses are mostly darker, the lighting of the winter season relies mainly on candles, people aspire to the winter season to enjoy the ample sunshine, in order to realize the king's dream of a greenhouse garden. In order to realize the king's dream garden, the architect Barratt used his brain, the industrial revolution is the mass production of glass and steel has become possible, so it gave up the traditional construction methods, the use of glass and metal. The use of light and natural light has allowed the greenhouse to be seen from every corner. The plants that remain today are almost identical to those grown by Leopold II. And of course there are his favorite camellias, of which there are more than 100 varieties, and all of them are the largest and oldest kind.