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AutoWorld Museum
AutoWorld, the most impressive collection of oldtimers in the world
AutoWorld is a vintage car museum in the center of Brussels, Belgium, located in the southern hall of the Parc du Cinquantenaire.
It holds a large and varied collection of oldtimers, European and American automobiles from the late 19th century until the seventies. Including Minervas, such models as the Bentley 1928, the Bugatti 1930 and the Cord 1930, and several limousines which belonged to the Belgian royal family.
The majority of oldtimers belong to the Mahy collection of Ghent, the most important in the world (950 vehicles). Moreover, temporary exhibitions are being held at the Palais Mondial on a regular base.
Le Parc du Cinquantenaire
Parc du Cinquantenaire (French) or Jubilee Park (English) is an urban public park with a complex of buildings in the eastern part of the European District of Brussels, Belgium.
The park is dominated by the 1880 triumphal arch in the middle, and the horse-shoe shaped buildings surrounding the park esplanade.
Today the various buildings of the Cinquantenaire host the Royal Museums for Art and History, the Royal Army and Military History Museum and the AutoWorld automobile museum. In the summer, the esplande park is used for diverse purposes, such as military parades and drive-in movies.[citation needed] It is also the starting point of the annual 20 km of Brussels, a run with 25,000 participants, is started in the park.
The Manneken Pis
Manneken Pis is a Brussels landmark. It is a small bronze fountain sculpture depicting a naked little boy urinating into the fountain’s basin.
Also known as the “Ketje de Bruxelles”, the “little boy of Brussels” is one of the city’s most cherished figures. Tourists and Belgians come to visit and laugh at this statue, which is often dressed in one of its costumes (the impressive wardrobe is on display at the “Maison du Roi/King’s House” on the Grand’Place).
Numerous legends have sprung up around this symbolic Brussels figure. The most commonly heard is the one that, by answering his famous call of nature, he reputedly extinguished the burning fuse of a bomb destined for the Grand’Place. In reality, this charming little fountain was put in place during the reign of Archiduke Albert and Archiduchess Isabelle to supply drinking water to the neighbourhood.