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The Hotel Amigo is located in the heart of Brussels, next door to the historic Grand Place – one of the most beautiful squares in Europe, near enough to any number of shops, restaurants, the financial district, and even the Town Hall. This five-star accommodation and personal service, should ensure that you will have a pleasurable stay, whatever the reason for your visit to Brussels.
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Every two years the Grand Place in the center of Brussels is the location of the “Flower Carpet”. During the third week of August every even year, begonia cultivators from Ghent decorate here according to a theme. The famous Carpet of Flowers covers 300 m² right in the center of the Grand Place. Every flower carpet has a unique theme, and this year it is inspired by the alchemy of the Middle Ages, with 9 rosettes mounted on vast rotating platforms to form a giant kaleidoscopic wind rose.

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The Dominican Hotel is sitted in the heart of Brussels, just behind the national Opera House. The location is very convenient because of the downtown business district. The hotel is on 20 minutes drive from the airport and under three hours from London by Eurostar. People who travel a lot, probably are informed that Brussels is well served with frequent flights from all over Europe.
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Brussels is the capital of Belgium, as well as home of the European Union headquarters. There is a great deal more to the city than politics though, with other historic cities such as Antwerp and Bruges being only a short drive or train journey away. Located at the foot of the Atomium, Mini-Europe is the only park where you can have a whistle-stop tour around Europe in a few short hours. This is a fun introduction to Europe, miniature famous landmarks from countries throughout Europe – canals of Amsterdam, Big Ben in London, the Eiffel Tower, windmills of Spain, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, and more. Plus, jumbo ferries that go, trains zooming around, steer your own radio controlled boat through the miniature waterways of Europe.

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Built in 1958 for the the Brussels World’s Fair (Expo ‘58), it is103 metre(335-foot) tall monument represents a cell of an iron crystal, magnified 165 billion times, with vertical body diagonal, with tubes along the 12 edges of the cube and from all 8 vertices to the centre. The Atomium is the visiualization of microscopic molecular structures on a great enlarged scale,which is located next to Heysel metro station in Brussels.
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