Best of Belgium: Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, Wallonia, Namur, Liege, Spa, Mons & Medieval Belgian Heritage - A 2026 First-Person Guide
Browse more guides: Belgium travel | Europe destinations Best of Belgium: Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, Wallonia, Namur, Liege, Spa, Mons & Medieval Belgian Heritage - A 2026 First-Person Guide I have walked the cobblestoned Markt of Bruges at 6 a.m. when the only sound is a horse-drawn carriage echoing off the brick gables, and I have eaten frites with mayonnaise on the Grote Markt of Antwerp while the bell of the Cathedral of Our Lady rang out across the diamond quarter. Belgium is a country that fits inside a single long Saturday on the map, yet the more time I spent here across multiple visits between 2022 and 2026, the more I realised that Flanders and Wallonia function almost like two different countries stitched together by a French-speaking capital. This guide is the result of those visits, written from one notebook full of train tickets, beer coasters, and a slightly battered tourist map of the Béguinage. If you are landing in Brussels for the first time and wondering wheth...