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Our pick of the best activities in and around Brussels – and online – for the coming week
The snow(!) has melted, and spring is back in the air. Floralia Brussels is one of the annual events that can happen right now as it is out-of-doors. Taking place on the grounds of the Groot-Bijgaarden Castle, Floralia boasts more than one million blooming flowers spread across 14 hectares. Fields of tulips, swaths of hyacinth and carpets of daffodils are just the beginning. A popular event with Brussels expats, it’s easily reachable by car or on De Lijn buses 136 or 355.
Until 2 May, Isidoor Van Beverenstraat 5, Groot-Bijgaarden
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Our pick of Belgium’s best activities – online and off – for the coming week
The Triforium Art Gallery at the Solvay Library hosts the sublime work of Belgian fashion and fine art photographer Geert De Taeye. His highly stylised photographs look like paintings, sometimes recalling a 17th-century Pieta, other times a 1940s Edward Hopper. This exhibition,
Staring Into the Middle Distance: The Sound of Silence, groups images that were either made specifically in response to the coronavirus crisis or that reflect its effect on certain themes close to De Taeye: The death of arts, the abandonment of the feast.