Every year - starting on December 1st - the center of Brussels becomes a Christmas village. The Grand-Place and its neighbouring streets become an appendix from the house of Santa. This year, the guest city of Brussels is Tallinn, capital of the Estonian Republic and you will be able to discover its specialities throughout your Brussels Christmas Market Coach Trip.
From the Place Saint-Jean up to the Location Sainte-Catherine, whilst passing by the Bourse (Belgian Stock Exchange), and also the Fish Market, 220 Xmas country cottages take place and transform our capital into a "Christmas Tales Village" where you discover thousands of gifts ideas.
Leave the Location Saint-Jean and go to the Grand-Place. The Grand-Place was transformed into a fairy Christmas place. It receives a monumental luminous installation and comes back to the Xmas traditions and suitable amazement for childhood. A fantastic sound and light display takes place each day and is supplemented by concerts each and every saturday.
The Hotel de Ville, the King's House and other constructions dating from the XVIth century will fascinate you. Did you know that the Hotel de Ville of Brussels was built within the exact center from the town and that Charles-Quint himself posed the very first stone during its construction? Do not hesitate to go to it and find out the Pentagon (actually, our city is really a pentagon) paved in its center.
Leave the Grand-Place through the Rue au Beurre and find out our Brussels lace stores and tapestries containing tons of original gifts ideas. The Rue au Beurre crossed, you're at the Bourse and enter the Xmas village: country cottages are already installed, the craftsmen await you and propose to you, in addition to the gifts, the opportunity of tasting delicious winter specialities from their countries or drinking a hot wine or one more reinvigorating drink.
Continue your walk by the street Devaux and the street Sainte-Catherine. On the place Sainte-Catherine, the Ice Monster and the Black Tower as of the horse-gears will be a real pleasure for your children. While waiting for them, go to the Tallinn Christmas Village craftsmen who precisely expose to this place.
Enter the Fish Market and discover the Skating Rink. It is the principal attraction of the Brussels winter. The children can safely slip on a little track arranged for them. Keep an eye on your children whilst tasting a drink within the mountain brewery being next towards the skating rink.
The end of this excursion in the Brussels Xmas Village may be the Big Wheel ; located just after the skating rink. The spectacle of this gigantic machine is even much more staggering when the night falls and its 18.000 bulbs ignite.
Whilst walking through the Brussels Christmas Market you will also meet concerts, plays, processions, troops of travelling artists who will brighten your way by their art and their beauty.
Throughout one month, Brussels joins again with its past of popular attractions and becomes a town with the colors of the winter and traditions of Christmas.
