Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Brussels, Belgium

The Mo(nu)ment Melancholia is a work of art in the Bloemenhof district in the Belgian city of Brussels. It is a creation of the South African artist Kendell Geers, who himself lived in the Bloemenhof district for some time. The price tag of the artwork is 50,000 euros.

Wikipedia: Mo(nu)ment Melancholia (NL)

Het Zinneke, sometimes called Zinneke Pis by analogy with Manneken Pis, is a bronze sculpture in central Brussels, Belgium, erected in 1999. Created by Tom Frantzen, it represents a dog urinating against a bollard, along the same lines as Manneken Pis and its derivative Jeanneke Pis. It is an example of folk humour popular in Brussels.

Wikipedia: Het Zinneke (EN)

The list of Stumbling Stones in the Brussels-Capital Region provides an overview of the memorial stones that have been placed in cities in the Brussels-Capital Region since May 2009, as part of the Stumbling Stones project by the German sculptor-artist Gunter Demnig. Stumbling stones are also called stumbling stones, memorial cobblestones or pavés de mémoire. As the Stolpersteine project is ongoing, this list may be incomplete.

Wikipedia: Lijst van Stolpersteine in het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest (NL)

The Orts Fountain is a high-flow drinking water fountain located at the corner of Rue Auguste Orts and Place de la Bourse in Brussels.

Wikipedia: Fontaine Orts (FR)

The Church of Notre-Dame aux Riches Claires, located on Rue des Riches Claires in Brussels, Belgium, is a Baroque style church built in 1665 by the Mechelen sculptor and architect Lucas Faydherbe.

Wikipedia: Église Notre-Dame aux Riches Claires (FR)

The Saint Anthony of Padua Monastery is a 19th-century neo-Gothic monastery with monastery church in the Artois Street in Brussels, designed by the Dutch architect Pierre Cuypers.

Wikipedia: Sint-Antonius van Paduakerk (Brussel) (NL)

The monument to François Anneessens is an eclectic statue erected in memory of François Anneessens, doyen of the profession of the Four Crowned Ones executed in public on the Grand-Place in Brussels in 1719 at the time of the Austrian Netherlands.

Wikipedia: Monument à François Anneessens (FR)

The Ancienne Belgique (AB) is a concert hall for contemporary music in Brussels, Belgium. Located in the historic heart of Brussels, it is one of the leading concert venues in Belgium, hosting a wide variety of international and local acts. Some 300,000 people attend a concert at the "AB" every year.

Wikipedia: Ancienne Belgique (EN), Website

Den Spauwer is an old wall fountain in Brussels. It is located near the Grote Markt, on the corner of Steenstraat and Kolenmarkt.

Wikipedia: Den Spauwer (NL), Website

The Town Hall of the City of Brussels is a landmark building and the seat of the City of Brussels municipality of Brussels, Belgium. It is located on the south side of the famous Grand-Place/Grote Markt, opposite the neo-Gothic King's House or Bread House building, housing the Brussels City Museum.

Wikipedia: Brussels Town Hall (EN)

The Grand-Place or Grote Markt is the central square of Brussels, Belgium. It is surrounded by opulent Baroque guildhalls of the former Guilds of Brussels and two larger edifices; the city's Flamboyant Town Hall, and the neo-Gothic King's House or Bread House building, containing the Brussels City Museum. The square measures 68 by 110 metres and is entirely paved.

Wikipedia: Grand Place (EN), Heritage Website

The Brussels City Museum is a municipal museum on the Grand-Place/Grote Markt of Brussels, Belgium. Conceived in 1860 and inaugurated in 1887, it is dedicated to the history and folklore of the City of Brussels from its foundation into modern times, which it presents through paintings, sculptures, tapestries, engravings, photos and models, including a notable scale-representation of the town during the Middle Ages.

Wikipedia: King's House (Brussels) (EN)

The Brussels City Museum is a municipal museum on the Grand-Place/Grote Markt of Brussels, Belgium. Conceived in 1860 and inaugurated in 1887, it is dedicated to the history and folklore of the City of Brussels from its foundation into modern times, which it presents through paintings, sculptures, tapestries, engravings, photos and models, including a notable scale-representation of the town during the Middle Ages.

Wikipedia: Brussels City Museum (EN), Website

The Blind Watering Trough is a drinking water fountain located in Rue au Beurre, in Brussels, Belgium, in front of the Church of St. Nicholas.

Wikipedia: Abreuvoir des Aveugles (FR)

The Brussels Stock Exchange, abbreviated to BSE, was founded in Brussels, Belgium, by decree of Napoleon in 1801. In 2002, the BSE merged with the Amsterdam, Lisbon and Paris stock exchanges into Euronext, renaming the BSE Euronext Brussels. The most well known stock market index on the BSE is the BEL20.

Wikipedia: Brussels Stock Exchange (EN)

Bruxella 1238 is an archaeological site located in the centre of Brussels and unearthed in June 1988, during road works.

Wikipedia: Bruxella 1238 (FR)

The Milkman's Wife is a statue in the Boterstraat in the Belgian city of Brussels. It is located in front of the St. Nicholas Church not far from the Grote Markt. The statue was made by the sculptor Marc de Vos. The statue is based on a ghostly legend that took place in the 1670s.

Wikipedia: Het Melkboerinnetje (NL)

The Saint-Nicolas church in Brussels, built around 1125, is one of the first four churches of the city of Brussels in Belgium and the best preserved in its successive developments. Being close to the Palais de la Bourse, it is commonly called Saint-Nicolas de la Bourse.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Nicolas (Bruxelles) (FR)

The Maison de l'Agneau Blanc or simply l'Agneau Blanc is a Baroque house, built in 1696, located at 42, rue du Marché aux Herbes/Grasmarkt in Brussels, Belgium, parallel to the Grand-Place/Grote Markt. It has been a protected heritage site since 2011.

Wikipedia: Maison de l'Agneau Blanc (EN)

Tourism Flanders is an agency of the Flemish government and falls under the authority of the Flemish Minister of Tourism. From the Flemish government, Tourism Flanders offers support to tourism partners in Flanders in the field of tourism in the broadest sense of the word.

Wikipedia: Toerisme Vlaanderen (NL), Website

The Royal Theatre Toone, often simply referred to as Toone, is a folkloric theatre of rod marionettes in central Brussels, Belgium, active since 1830, and the only traditional Brussels puppet theatre still in operation.

Wikipedia: Royal Theatre Toone (EN), Website

Jeanneke Pis is a modern fountain sculpture in central Brussels, Belgium. It was commissioned by Denis-Adrien Debouvrie in 1985 and erected in 1987 as a counterpoint to the city's famous Manneken Pis. The 50-centimetre (20 in) bronze statue depicts a naked little girl with short pigtails, squatting and urinating on a blue-grey limestone base.

Wikipedia: Jeanneke Pis (EN), Website

The King's Gallery in Brussels, along with the Queen's Gallery and the Princes' Gallery, is part of the Royal Galleries of Saint-Hubert built by the architect Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar and inaugurated in 1847; it extends from the rue des Bouchers to the rue d'Arenberg. It is home to the Théâtre Royal des Galeries.

Wikipedia: Galerie du Roi (FR)

The Théâtre royal des Galeries is a theatre in central Brussels, Belgium, subsidised by the French Community of Belgium. It opened in 1847 and has continuously hosted theatrical activities ever since. It is located in the Royal Saint-Hubert Galleries and can be accessed from Brussels-Central railway station.

Wikipedia: Théâtre Royal des Galeries (EN), Website

The Royal Theatre of La Monnaie is an opera house in central Brussels, Belgium. The National Opera of Belgium, a federal institution, takes the name of this theatre in which it is housed—La Monnaie in French or De Munt in Dutch—referring both to the building as well as the opera company. As Belgium's leading opera house, it is one of the few cultural institutions to receive financial support from the Federal Government of Belgium. Other opera houses in Belgium, such as the Vlaamse Opera and the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, are funded by regional governments.

Wikipedia: La Monnaie (EN), Website

Saint Catherine's Church is a Catholic parish church in Brussels, Belgium. It is dedicated to Saint Catherine.

Wikipedia: Saint Catherine's Church, Brussels (EN)

The Church of St. John the Baptist at the Béguinage is a Catholic parish church in central Brussels, Belgium. It is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.

Wikipedia: Saint John the Baptist at the Béguinage (EN)

The Belgian Museum of Freemasonry is a museum in the city of Brussels. It was founded in 1985, then closed and reopened in 2011. The museum aims to make the public more familiar with Freemasonry.

Wikipedia: Belgisch Museum van de Vrijmetselarij (NL), Website

The Maison des Chats is a building built in 1873-1875 in Brussels, Belgium by the architect Henri Beyaert, following the vaulting of the Senne and the creation of the "boulevards du Centre".

Wikipedia: Maison des Chats (Bruxelles) (FR)

The Church of Notre-Dame du Finistère, built in the eighteenth century, is a parish church located on Rue Neuve in Brussels.

Wikipedia: Église Notre-Dame du Finistère (FR)

The Théâtre des Martyrs is a Brussels theatre located on the Place des Martyrs. Directed by the director Daniel Scahaise between 1998 and 2015, it is now under the artistic direction of the director Philippe Sireuil, since January 1, 2016.

Wikipedia: Théâtre de la Place des Martyrs (FR), Website

The Monument to the Martyrs of the 1830 Revolution, also known as the Pro Patria Monument, is an allegorical monument on the Place des Martyrs/Martelaarsplein in Brussels, Belgium, commemorating the victims of the Belgian Revolution of 1830.

Wikipedia: Monument to the Martyrs of the 1830 Revolution (EN)

The Museum of the National Bank of Belgium is a museum in central Brussels, Belgium, belonging to the National Bank of Belgium (NBB). Opened in 1982, it is one of the oldest central bank museums in Europe.

Wikipedia: Museum of the National Bank of Belgium (EN), Website

The Bust of King Baudouin is a memorial located in Brussels, Belgium.

Wikipedia: Buste du roi Baudouin (FR)

The Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula, usually shortened to the Cathedral of St. Gudula or St. Gudula by locals, is a medieval Catholic cathedral in central Brussels, Belgium. It is dedicated to Saint Michael and Saint Gudula, the patron saints of the City of Brussels, and is considered to be one of the finest examples of Brabantine Gothic architecture.

Wikipedia: Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula (EN), Website

The Marc Sleen Museum was a museum in Brussels, Belgium, dedicated to the work of Belgian comics artist Marc Sleen, who is known for his series The Adventures of Nero, Piet Fluwijn en Bolleke and De Lustige Kapoentjes. It was located across the street from the Belgian Comic Strip Center at 33–35, rue des Sables/Zandstraat, and was served by Brussels-Congress railway station and Brussels-Central railway station. It was founded in 2009.

Wikipedia: Marc Sleen Museum (EN), Website

The Belgian Comic Strip Center is a museum in central Brussels, Belgium, dedicated to Belgian comics. It is located at 20, rue des Sables/Zandstraat, in an Art Nouveau building designed by Victor Horta, and can be accessed from Brussels-Congress railway station and Brussels-Central railway station.

Wikipedia: Belgian Comic Strip Center (EN), Website

The statue of Andreas Vesalius is a statue erected on the Place des Barricades in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, to the glory of Andreas Vesalius, a famous Brussels physician and anatomist of the sixteenth century.

Wikipedia: Statue d'André Vésale (FR)

The church of Saint-Josse in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode (Brussels) is a neo-baroque style church built from 1867 by the architect Jules-Jacques Van Ysendyck who took over the work begun in 1864 by Jean-Frédéric Van der Rit.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Josse (Saint-Josse-ten-Noode) (FR)

The "Le Public" theatre is a Brussels theatre located in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode.

Wikipedia: Théâtre Le Public (FR), Website

The "Maison Govaerts" is an Art Nouveau building located at 112 rue de Liedekerke in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, one of the 19 municipalities that make up the Brussels-Capital Region in Belgium.

Wikipedia: Maison Govaerts (FR), Heritage Website