With more than 700 comic strip authors, Belgium has more comic strip artists per square kilometre than any other country in the world! It is here that the comic strip has grown from a popular medium into an art in its own right. Nowhere else comics are so strongly rooted in reality and in people's imagination. If you come to visit the Belgian Comic Strip Center, you will witness the unusual marriage of the Ninth Art and Art Nouveau, two artistic forms of expression which have

Since 1971, evey 2 years the Grand Place of Brussels is hosting a flower carpet. The event takes place on the weekend of the 15th of August. The 2000m² (80x25m) carpet counts half a million of begonias. More than 100 volunteers are necessary to create that artwork that gathers thousands of visitors. The 2016 edition was made on Japanese motives for the 150th aniversary of the Japanese-Belgium friendship. Next year flower carpet will be held from the 16th to the 19th of August