Belgium，Not Only The Country of Chocolate

Brussels is Belgium's largest city, as well as the capital of the country, and the center of Belgium's French-speaking region. Due to its unique geographical location, Brussels is regarded as the "capital of Europe", and favored by the a lot of international organizations. The EU headquarters, NATO, about 1400 international NGOs and large multinational companies have set up headquarters there.

Walking in Brussels, architectures of various styles can be seen everywhere. The whole city is pentagon, which is divided into Upper Town and Lower Town. The Upper Town is built along the hillside, and architectures of Louis XVI style are gathering in the palace, as well as the the Royal Square, Egmont Palace, the National Palace, the Royal Library, Modern Ancient Art Museum; the downtown is in the business district, there are shops everywhere.

Bruges is an old Belgium city located in northwest Belgium, and being the capital of the province of West Flanders. In Europe, it`s known as "the Venice of North." “Bruges” means "bridge" in Flemish, because of a Roman bridge which lays on the Ley River .

In the 14th century, Bruges was one of Europe's major business centers. But in the following centuries, the waterways which connected the city and sea were silted up. Although peope built a new canal later, but its good time had already gone. In the latter half of the 19th century, Bruges became one of the world's first tourist destinations, attracting wealthy British and French tourists to come there. Until the latter half of the 20th century, the city began to recover its glory gradually.

Antwerp is Belgium's most important commercial center, port city,and also Belgium's second largest city. Antwerp was once classified as Paris, London, Venice and Naples.

There`re well-preserved medieval buildings in Antwerp`s old city area, it`s the world's largest diamond processing and trade center, which makes Antwerp is called "the diamonds city" . In the city there are many museums and galleries, it is Europe's leading cultural center.

When we talk about Waterloo, we would remind of a place and a person, the place would be the Belgian town of Waterloo; and that person would be Napoleon Bonaparte, the giants of history in Europe.

Waterloo is just 20 kilometres away from Brussels, where Emperor Napoleon ended in failure. The famous Waterloo ancient battlefield is just 2.5 km away from the Waterloo town, there are a memorial hall for people to visit and understand the history. The most shocking part is the 360 cyclorama painting about the Waterloo Battle, tourists from all over world come to visit the the ancient battlefield of Waterloo everyday.