Flanders was one of the wealthiest and most cosmopolitan regions of Europe between the 15th and 17th centuries. Its port cities, like Antwerp, Bruges, and Ghent, drew merchants, bankers, and artisans ...

The Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels is small in budget but big in ambition. Each year, it brings together Belgium’s ...

Wide open for commerce and world trade, rolling in new money, ostentatiously religious and enthusiastic about science and technology — Flanders could be called the Texas of the 16th century. Its brash ...

A line of over 50 castles and strongholds was built by the Normans and Flemish to protect south Pembrokeshire from the indigenous Welsh, who had been forced to move to the hilly country in the north ...

Conjugal relations between Belgium’s Dutch-speaking northerners and French-speaking southerners were rocky even before they went into lockdown together. Now, for the Flemish nationalists, the testy ...

Photographer Maxine Helfman didn’t foresee the current outcry around civil rights in America back in 2012, when she began shooting portraits in the style of the old Flemish master painters – using ...

WEMMEL, Belgium Most of the families living in this well-to-do community on the outskirts of Brussels are French-speaking. But the law for this region of Belgium says that all official town business ...

Belgium’s nationalist New Flemish Alliance is making moves to court former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont with a place on the party’s electoral list for next year’s European election, two people ...