Walks and tours

Three courses to discover Brussels while running: Pentagone (boulevards of the city center), European (EU headquarters) and Atomium.

You can read more about this on the website of bhg.common.blank_link_warningwww.brusselsrunningtours.com.

Stroll around Brussels with an audioguide comprising 22 songs, interviews and testimonies.
From Place De Brouckère to Sainte-Catherine, with concert venues like La Madeleine and Ancienne Belgique. Organised by Les Editions Jacques Brel.

Read more about it on bhg.common.blank_link_warningwww.fondationbrel.be (FR).

If you'd like to explore th city or one of its neighborhoods with someone who lives there, you need the Greeters!
Find out what they love, what they 'hate', where they like to go and more...

Explore all of Brussels' original sites on bhg.common.blank_link_warningvisit.brussels.

Some call it the Brussels 'Père Lachaise' after the famous Paris cemetery due to the fame of the people buried in it. An open-air museum of funereal art, home, among other things, to a copy of Rodin’s 'Thinker'.

Individual and guided visits are possible.

Various associations arrange guided walks around Brussels on different themes, including the city’s cafés, film locations, famous crimes, neighbourhoods, design and architectural movements...

You'll find a complete list on the website of bhg.common.blank_link_warningvisit.brussels.

In the thirty plus years since the first underground section opened, the Brussels metro has become an art gallery of sorts. Over sixty works adorn its platforms and passageways. All genres are represented – paintings to sculptures, photos to stained glass windows – in every material – canvas to bronze, wood to glass and steel.

Read more about art in the metro in the section 'Art in the metro' of this portal.

The City of Brussels launched an initiative to paint walls in honour of famous cartoon characters about twenty years ago. This walk takes in the frescos adorning the historical centre and in Laeken. It’s a great opportunity to find out about cartoon artists and characters.

bhg.common.blank_link_warningFull itineraries are available from the City of Brussels website.

bhg.common.blank_link_warningpatrimoine.brussels website provides walking maps covering the city’s earliest defensive wall, including the last bits still standing, which can sometimes be found in a school playground or a hotel bar.

Tour Brussels in a vintage tram. Departures leave the Tram Museum at 10am every Sunday April through September.

Enjoy a 2km walk through Parc Baudouin in Jette, with regular information boards on the world of bees.