Belgium - If Belgium's spotlight on the European stage is a little dim, it's only because its people are rarely boastful. This slow-burning country has more history, art, food and architecture packed into its tiny self than many of its bigger, louder neighbours.

A rich and bubbling vat of beer, chocolate, oil paint and bureaucrats, Belgium gives off the heady pong of the bourgeoisie. But stir the pot a little and you'll find an 'artificial state' roughly made up of two parts Germanic Flemings to one part Celtic-Latin Walloons.

Divided by pride first and language second, the country's binding agents are a pervasive sense of family and an indomitable entrepreneurial spirit. Visitors, lulled by the locals' friendliness, will probably not even notice the tensions that spark across the Linguistic Divide.

Featured Hotels in Belgium

Montgomery Hotel Belgium
134 Avenue de Tervuren (Square Montgomery)
5 Star Hotel

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Le Plaza Hotel Belgium
Blvd. Adolphe Max, 118-126 1000 Brussels Belgium
5 Star Hotel

Hotel Amigo Brussels
Rue de I' Amigo 1-3 Brussels, Belgium.
5 Star Hotel