 Five stars luxury boutique hotel in Brussels - Belgium
Eurostars Montgomery is an intimate, tranquil luxury boutique hotel, roughly ten minutes walking distance from the European Union (EU) Institutions located on the other side of the Parc du Cinquantenaire.
The Montgomery hotel offers traditional luxury service with a smile. The hotel features 63 comfortable and stylish rooms; 61 elegant deluxe rooms and 2 luxurious penthouses. There is a full service fitness center with an authentic Scandinavian sauna, six meetings rooms for business conferences, meetings and presentations and the hotel is home to the popular "La Duchesse" restaurant that serves both French and Belgium cuisine with a complete menu change every two weeks.
The hotel is located in a quiet area between the airport and just 5 Metro Station from the city center (6 minutes), next to the European headquarters, shopping areas and many tourist attractions just a walk away like the Grand Place and Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, which are themselves worth the trip to Brussels.
Brussels
Brussels (French: Bruxelles, Dutch: Brussel) is the capital of Belgium, of Flanders and of the French Community of Belgium, and it is the headquarters of most of the European Union's institutions, including the European Commission and the Council of the European Union. The Commission is in the Berlaymont building, and the Council in the Justus Lipsius building facing it. The third institution, the European Parliament, also has a parliamentary chamber in Brussels in which its committees meet and some of its plenary sessions are held.
Brussels is officially bilingual, French, and Dutch, although French, mother tongue of the majority of the population, is the lingua franca and the most widely used language in Brussels.
A good introduction to the Brussels local dialect and way of life can be obtained at the House of Toone. This theatre of marionettes, originally located in the Marolles area, is now delivering its slapstick comedy in a 1696 estaminet a stone throw away from the Grand Place.
Tourist attractions
Grand Place (Dutch: Grote Markt) is the central market square and the jewel in Brussels' crown. The Grand-Place is Brussels' top tourist attraction justified by the Gothic magnificence of the Town Hall and the Baroque exuberance of the late seventeenth-century guild houses with the sculptures of Peter van Dievoet surrounding the square.
Brussels is famous for being home to many Belgian comics characters, including The Smurfs, Largo Winch, Tintin and Lucky Luke to name but a few. Throughout Brussels, (also nicknamed Comic City) there are many murals, frescos and even statues celebrating the city's many cartoon heroes.
The world famous Manneken Pis: a small bronze fountain sculpture depicting a little boy urinating into the fountain's basin is located in the labyrinth of shops surrounding the Grand Place at the corner of Rue de l' Etuve and Rue du Chêne.
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