Tourist Information about Belgium

Belgium is located in northwester Europe and borders Holland, France, Germany and Luxembourg. If you intend to travel throughout Europe, Belgium is the best place to start for it is considered the gateway to the rest of the continent.

Belgium in itself has a lot to offer tourists. If you are interested in countryside, culture and history then this country is a good place to go to. If you desire haute cuisine, moules-frites, Belgian waffles, world-renowned chocolates and ubiquitous beer then Belgium is definitely a prime destination for you.

It is the country of choice for Eurocrats and business executives. It is easy to travel around this pocket-sized country which was once considered dull and boring. The country has banished this image by promoting its key destinations, along with a string of new attractions.

Belgium is more than just home to faceless political bureaucratic buildings that line the streets of the country's capital, Brussles. Brussels itself offer impressive architecture, lively nightlife, first-rate cuisine to just name a few. Antwerp is now a hotbed of fashion and modern design. And mountainous Ardennes offers no less than its rustic charms of chocolate box beauty in the east as well as the sweeping sand of the coastline resorts of the western seaboard.

Belgians' love for the "good life" is very evident in their excellent food and drink, comfortable housing, reliable medical and social services, highly developed traffic and communications infrastructure. Combine these with a generally peaceful atmosphere and the effort put into developing the basic things in life, Belgium would be put in the top of the list of countries with a "high quality of life."