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Horta Museum

is a museum dedicated to the life and work of the Belgian Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta and his time. The museum is housed in Horta's former house and atelier, Maison & Atelier Horta (1898), in the Brussels municipality of Saint-Gilles.In the splendid Art Nouveau interiors there is a permanent display of furniture, utensils and art objects designed by Horta and his contemporaries as well as documents related to his life and time.The museum also organises temporary exhibitions on topics related to Horta and his art.The building is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.The UNESCO commission recognized the Horta Museum as UNESCO World Heritage in 2000.

Forest park

is a park in Brussels, Belgium located in and named after the municipality of Forest.It was designed by Victor Besme and has 13 ha.It is adjacent to the Duden park to its south, which is home to the football ground of R. Union Saint-Gilloise, the legendary football club from the neighbouring municipality of Saint-Gilles.Though the club is not located in the municipality, whose border with Forest is to the north of the Forest park.The park is surrounded by a set of streets, which connect the Avenue Albert/Albertlaan with the Avenue Wielemans Ceuppens, making it a part of the greater ring road.Those streets are the Avenue des Villas to the north, Avenue du Mont Kemmel to the east, Avenue Besme to the south and Avenue Reine Marie-Henriette to the south and west.

Halle port

is a former city gate in Brussels.The port is in the small ring of Brussels, at the end of High Street and the beginning of the Waterloosesteenweg.It was built in 1381 and Brussels is the only gate that has been preserved.A Metro station nearby is named after the port, see Porte de Hal (subway station).The military function of the Porte de Hal was already in 1564 lifted, after which she served as a granary, Lutheran church, and jail records.In the 18th century the town walls were demolished and only the Porte de Hal kept.In 1847 it was the Musée Royal d'Armures, Museum of Royal arms, antiquity and ethnology in established.It was constructed in 1863 by Hendrik Beyaert restored and enlarged for his new position, where the appearance of the gate was heavily modified by adding, among other towers and a neo-Gothic roof.In 1889, the museum's collection has grown so that the Porte de Hal only space for the collection of weapons remained.The other collections were housed in the Museum Cinquantenaire.When the Porte de Hal in 1976 for restoration and renovation was closed, also the weapons and armor in the Cinquantenaire housed, this time in the Royal Museum of the Army and Military History.On 6 July 2008, the museum was reopened after a new series of renovations.

Home and studio of Horta

Together with three other Art Nouveau houses of Horta, belongs to the World Heritage List of UNESCO.These two buildings were built between 1898 and 1901 and contains three staircases: one for the residents, for an architectural firm that was located here and one third for the servants.But it is above the map and the innovative spatial concept of the house that was groundbreaking: the rooms open onto the glass dome crowned with a staircase, so the light is strongly encouraged.In the expansion there is room for Horta's archive: 800 plaster casts of Horta's design door handles, bells or tombs, architectural plans, photographs of interiors.There will be a library of four thousand titles on Horta come.On the first floor there is space for changing exhibitions of the Art Nouveau related topics.

Winegrowers Festival

is a traditional festival that takes place five times a century in Brussels.It is organized by the Brotherhood of Winegrowers of Vevey since 1797.The committee is free to choose the time intervals between the parties, the maximum being five times a century.The interval between two festivals was sometimes sooner or later (minimum 14 and maximum 28 years).The next edition will take place in 2019, 20 years after the previous 1999.A show pays tribute to the wine world, many performances take place on Market Square near the shores.Celebrations are also held in the city.

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