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1. Grand-Place

Historic squareÎlot Sacré (City Centre)

Brussels' central market square, rebuilt after the 1695 bombardment, framed by the Gothic Town Hall and ornate guildhalls and listed by UNESCO in 1998.

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2. Manneken Pis

Bronze statue and fountainCity Centre

Brussels' small bronze fountain of a urinating boy, first cast in the 17th century, famous for its wardrobe of around 1,000 costumes.

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3. Atomium

Landmark and exhibition buildingHeysel (Laeken)

A 102-metre model of an iron crystal built for Expo 58 on the Heysel plateau, with exhibitions, a panoramic top sphere and a restaurant.

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4. Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

Art museumMont des Arts (Royal Quarter)

Belgium's leading art collection, founded in 1801, with more than 20,000 works across the Old Masters, Magritte and Fin-de-Siècle museums.

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5. Musical Instruments Museum (MIM)

Music museumMont des Arts (Royal Quarter)

A collection of more than 7,000 instruments in the Old England building, an Art Nouveau department store designed by Paul Saintenoy in 1899.

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6. Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula

Gothic cathedralTreurenberg (City Centre)

Brussels' Brabantine Gothic cathedral, built between the 13th and early 16th centuries, with twin 69-metre towers, Renaissance stained glass and a Baroque pulpit.

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7. Horta Museum

Art Nouveau house museumSaint-Gilles

Victor Horta's own house and studio, built between 1898 and 1901 and listed by UNESCO in 2000, a key work of Belgian Art Nouveau.

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8. Comic Art Museum (Belgian Comic Strip Center)

Comics museumCity Centre (near Botanique)

Brussels' museum of the ninth art, opened in 1989 in Victor Horta's Art Nouveau Waucquez store, with galleries on Tintin, the Smurfs and Belgian comics.

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9. House of European History

History museumEuropean Quarter (Parc Léopold)

A free museum on the history of Europe, opened in 2017 by the European Parliament in the former Eastman dental building in Parc Léopold.

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10. Parc du Cinquantenaire

Park and monumental complexEuropean Quarter (Etterbeek)

A 30-hectare park created for Belgium's 50th anniversary in 1880, crowned by a triumphal arch and home to three major museums.

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