julyett: Belgium: Day 1 Brussels

Here is another example of a wonderful surprise, I had no idea where I was going and there you go one of the oldest shopping 'mall' in the continental Europe! Galeries St-Hubert 16 years after ascending the throne as the first king of Belgium, Leopold I inaugurated the opening of .... This bustling cobblestone square remains the civic centre, centuries after its creation, and offers the finest surviving example in one area of Belgium's ornate 17th-century architecture. ...