The best city hikes and walks in Bois D'Hez

Relax walk around the lac

Silence… peacefull…

A Buddha next to a Christ from the Middle Ages, ancient writings next to calculators... the Museum L, rich in 32,000 pieces, dares the most unprecedented and extraordinary encounters to speak to us about the world and humanity. Works of art are noticeable there, but not only because the visitor can also observe the scientific collections of the UCL. Natural history specimens, archaeological and ethnographic objects or scientific inventions are exhibited on 2,600 m² of the exhibition, in the heart of an emblematic building of modern Belgian architecture. The Museum L is a museum like no other: it is a place for exchanges and for life, dedicated to emotion and exploration.

A monumental version can be found on the right side of the headquarters buildings of the National Bank of Belgium, in Brussels, Belgium. Turning its back on the Saints-Michel-et-Gudule cathedral and looking towards the boulevard de Berlaimont, this 350 cm high statue was inaugurated in 1952. A more modest-sized version stands at Place de l'Accueil in Louvain-la-Neuve, not far from the University Halls. This Woman Seated Nude is a bronze sculpture 1.27 m high. This female nude with a humble gaze, offered by Peter Wilhelm, was installed on the square in 2005 on the occasion of the inauguration of the “L'Esplanade” shopping center. To use the words of the book L'art dans la ville - Promenades à Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve "the artist, now deceased, was celebrated by some as one of the last representatives of classical sculpture" .

The Hergé Museum has passed the 10-year mark! Stroll through this luminous place with particular shapes reminiscent of a suspended vessel, on the edge of the Parc de la Source. The architect Christian de Portzamparc thought of this building as a mental labyrinth linked to the universe of Hergé to reveal its universality, its complexity and its richness. Before even entering the museum, you will be seduced!

We find the most famous cartoonist in comics smiling, his cat on his shoulders, sitting on a pile of albums drawing. If you approach the statue, he smiles at you and you have the impression that he is drawing you. This statue is magnificent and it is not surprising because the sculptor who created it is far from being unknown in Brussels. It is in fact to Tom Frantzen that we owe the statues of Jacques Brel, Madame Chapeau and Zinneke which are so dear to our city center.

The Church of Saint-François d'Assise is a brutalist style church located in Louvain-la-Neuve, section of the Belgian town of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, in the province of Walloon Brabant. On May 21, 1985, Pope John Paul II met with parish officials there and blessed the new statue of the Sedes Sapientiae before meeting with representatives of the entire academic community at Erasmus College and delivering a speech on the Grand-Place of Louvain-la-Neuve, during the last day of his first visit to Belgium.

TAROE, his real name Nicolas Masterson, was born in Biarritz on April 6th, 1981. He discovers Graffiti in 1995. Self-taught and passionate, he starts and progresses on the walls of the disused factories, waste grounds, and trains which mark out his way from his native Basque Country, to New York, Berlin, including Madrid, Bangkok, Hanoî, Pondicherry or Paris, where he lives from 2005 to 2015.