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Tintin and Snowy (), on the roof of the former headquarters of Le Lombard near Brussels-South railway station. Belgium has numerous well-known cartoonists, such as Hergé (The Adventures of Tintin), Peyo (), Franquin (Spirou et Fantasio, Marsupilami, Gaston), Willy Vandersteen (Spike and Suzy), Morris (), Edgar P. Jacobs (Blake and Mortimer), Jef Nys and Marc Sleen (). [9]
Stilt jousting is a 600-year-old tradition of Namur, in which costumed people on stilts joust. Falconry, a living human heritage + [c] 2021 01708: The origin of falconry goes back to the use of hunting by birds of prey as a mean of hunting but it has evolved over time to become part of the cultural heritage of the people.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Customs seized 116 tons of cocaine in the port of Antwerp in 2023, setting a record for the second year in a row, Belgian authorities said on Wednesday.
[11] 2,000 people participate in the parade, in costume, and 250 teddy bears are thrown to the public from the Town Hall. In the furrow between the Sambre and the Meuse, one finds century-old traditions, religious processions influenced by the passage of the French army, known as the Marches of Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse. They are usually composed ...
It is considered an essential part of Belgian visual culture, as well as one of the country's main artistic influences internationally. [3] The best known series, The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé, first appeared in 1929, and have been translated into fifty languages, selling a total of 200 million copies. [4]
[165] 89.2% of inhabitants of Turkish origin have been naturalized, as have 88.4% of people of Moroccan background, 75.4% of Italians, 56.2% of the French and 47.8% of Dutch people. [164] Statbel released figures of the Belgian population in relation to the origin of people in Belgium. According to the data, as of 1 January 2021, 67.3% of the ...
Belgium's second largest city, Antwerp, saw crime rates about 20% below those of Brussels. Liège and Charleroi, industrial cities with high unemployment rates, saw more elevated crime rates than the less industrialized cities of Ghent and Bruges. The rural areas are generally safe.