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54  BEL GIUM AND L UXEMBOURG REGION B Y REGION

Belgium and Luxembourg at a Glance

Essentially, Belgium is divided into two halves – Dutch-
speaking Flanders in the north and French-speaking
Wallonia in the south. Situated wholly within Flanders is
the country’s capital Brussels, a separate administrative
region with a large French-speaking population.
Landlocked but independent, the Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg is Belgium’s southeastern neighbour.
Most big Belgian cities are located in Flanders and the
northern part of Wallonia. The hilly landscape of the
Ardennes covers much of the southern and eastern Brussels (see pp56–101) has a glorious
parts of Wallonia as well as Luxembourg. Here the centrepiece in its Grand Place, which is
landscape is more sparsely populated, and cherished fronted by its ornate Flemish-
for its unspoilt natural beauty. Renaissance guildhouses.

Oostende
Antwerp
Bruges Geel
Ghent ANTWERP, FLEMISH BRABANT
AND LIMBURG
WEST AND EAST FLANDERS Aalst (See pp144–73)
(See pp108–43) Hasselt
Ypres Leuven
Kortrijk BRUSSELS
(See pp56–101)
Waterloo
Tournai Liège
Verviers
WESTERN WALLONIA
(See pp180–95)
Oostende (see p126), clustered around a busy marina Namur EASTERN
and fishing port, is the largest resort-town on the Mons Charleroi
Belgian coast. Home of the maverick late-19th- CENTRAL WALLONIA
(See pp216–37)
century artist James Ensor, it also has a notable WALLONIA
museum of modern art. (See pp196–215)
Marche-en-
Dinant Famenne
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Bastogne
Neufchâteau
GRAND DUCHY
OF LUXEMBOURG
(See pp238–57)
Arlon
Luxembourg
City

Tournai (see pp184–8) is
the oldest cathedral-city in
Belgium. It is justly famous
for the splendid Gothic and
Romanesque Cathédrale Notre-
Dame, originally the seat of the
city’s first bishop, St Eleutherius,
in the 5th century.
Colourful, square houses as seen from above in Bruges

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