Next year will be the Year of Art Nouveau in Brussels, and one measure the capital is undertaking to highlight the city’s most treasured architecture is a ban on parking in front of historic monuments and buildings.
Brussels Region has already set up around 50 smart lights to deter motorists from speeding in the region, according to Brussels Mobility, reports RTBF. Coupled with a radar placed nearby, these traffic lights automatically turn red if a vehicle is detected speeding.
“Near this spot formerly stood the Pensionnat Heger,” it says on a bronze plaque next to the Palais des Beaux-Arts, “where the writers Charlotte and Emily Brontë studied in 1842-43.” The plaque, put up by the Brontë Society, doesn’t get it quite right, since Emily, who hated Brussels, left in th
The American Embassy in Brussels is considering a move to the ING building on Cours Saint-Michel in Etterbeek, as the long-running search for a new home continues.