To celebrate his respectable age, local DJ Daddy K will get people moving their feet with his hip hop and RnB tunes from the balcony of the City Hall on the Grand Place. Special guest at this Winter Wonders edition is Brussels’ most famous resident Manneken Pis, the 55-centimetre statue of a peeing boy and the city’s ultimate symbol. Photo © visit.brussels – Eric Danhier Manneken Pis Christmas Party Nearest metro stations: Gare Centrale / Centraal Station Sainte Catherine / Sint-Katelijne De Brouckère Christmas parade in Brussels. Vismet in local Brussels dialect, to make it even more complicated) Place Sainte-Catherine = Sint-Katelijneplein While navigating Brussels, don’t let the French-Flemish bilingual street and square names confuse you: Have a Corsendonk Christmas Ale here in the 1903 Art Nouveau café Falstaff, and enjoy La Féerie, another video mapping attraction projected onto the Grand Casino Brussels Viage building, located 180 metres from La Bourse on the Boulevard Anspach. With its 800 m2, the ice skating rink is bigger than ever before.įinally, for yet more stalls and cosy cafés, explore the area around La Bourse, the 1868 neo-renaissance former stock exchange. Note that this is a different location for the ice skating rink than last year’s. Place de Brouckère is where you can find more stalls and fumble on the ice skating rink after a glass of mulled wine. Christmas creatures in front of Sainte Catherine church. The 55-metre-high Ferris wheel is located nearby at the Marché aux Poissons, as well as a virtual reality attraction called Dream Space, and – unique in Europe – a 45-metre-big Ice Monster with special effects that surely will delight the kids. New this year is a special projection mapping on the church’s exterior. They’re located around the beautiful 15 th century Sainte Catherine church. Place Sainte-Catherine is home to the vintage merry-go-rounds and the larger food and drink stalls including a Champagne bar. While you find yourself in Europe’s capital, join Mark Bibby Jackson discovering plenty of things to do in Brussels. The beautiful Christmas tree stands proudly here and you can enjoy classical Christmas music as well as the light and sound shows. Because of its size there are more or less four parts: It includes the streets around La Bourse on the Boulevard Anspach, the Place de Brouckère and the Marché aux Poissons (or Vismet). The Christmas Market Brussels expands from the Grand Place all the way to the Place Sainte-Catherine. Photo © visit.brussels – Eric Danhier How to navigate the Brussels Christmas Market 2022 Needless to say, Belgian chocolates are everywhere. In addition, food lovers will delight in the aromas and flavours of local food delicacies including oysters, salmon cooked on embers, steamed snails, Flemish stew with fries, forest mushrooms, burgers, crepes, and an endless variety of regional beers and genevers – the country’s national gin-based liquor. Read our Essential Belgium Travel Guide before visiting the little kingdom. Decorated with fairy lights they have everything on offer from arts and crafts to mountains of waffles, mulled wine and the type of hot chocolate that would impress even fussy Hercule Poirot. Probably the biggest highlight of the Brussels Christmas Market are the 250 wooden gingerbread-house-style chalets. Vintage merry-go-rounds and a Ferris wheel at the Brussels Christmas Market. Finally, there is of course also the grandly decorated fir tree. A covered ice-skating rink, an illuminated Ferris wheel, merry-go-rounds, brass bands, free performances, ice sculptures, a fun Brussels Christmas parade and a magical light and sound show liven it all up. Think cobbled streets and medieval market squares home to snow-dusted market stalls, cosy brasseries, lively pop-up cafés and bars. Winter Wonders – as the market is dubbed – runs over two kilometres through the Belgian capital’s historic town centre. The Brussels Christmas Market is no doubt one of the best in Europe for food and atmosphere.
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