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WORKSHOPS & CULTURAL VISITS
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Our programs are only organized for groups.
Please NO requests for individual participation!
Please choose one of our programs. In order to get more information, click on the desired program:
 Shooting with the cross bow
Pubs & Beers - walk & workshop
All about chocolate
VISIT OF THE CATHEDRAL TOWERS *new
Our interactive chocolate workshop “Belgian Chocolates”
“Best of Belgian Beers” (workshop)
A guided visit of the Solvay Mansion (Art Nouveau landmark)
Beer tour (city centre)
Dansaert district (Brussels)
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WELCOME, INITIATION & CONTEST SHOOTING WITH THE CROSSBOW AT ONE OF THE OLDEST BELGIAN CORPORATIONS (heart of the Marolles-district)
Date : to agree
Duration: +- 60’
We will welcome you at one of the oldest Belgian corporations, officially recognised in 1213 by the Duke of Brabant and is intimately linked with the earliest history of the town of Brussels.
It acquired a social position, that grew throughout the “Ancien Régime”, in particular because of its founding of the church of Notre-dame au Sablon.
The martial role of the Guild diminished little by little, to give way to peaceful tests of skill, to which important notabilities were invited.
Charles V, the Count of Egmont and the Infanta Isabella came to be installed as ‘Kings of the Shoot’.
In 1853, the Belgian King Leopold the first, donated the Guild a banner and a collar for the King of the Shoot. Since then, the Guild added ‘Royal et Noble’ to its name.
King Albert I, King Leopold III, King Bauduin and King Albert II visited the Guild or accepted the Grand Mastership. King Philip accepted recently.
Program: welcome, initiation & drink (beer, coffee, tea or soft drink), contest (in team or individual). The best shooter receives a souvenir offered by the President of the Guild.
price: on demand
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Pubs & Beers WALK & WORKSHOP
The perfect preparation for your own
Brussels' pub crawl !
Date: to agree.
Total duration: + - 2h15
Maximum 25 participants/group & 2 groups simultaneous.
Location: Brussels City centre
The walk: where are the best pubs in town?
Discover where are the most cosy, crazy, classy pubs in the city centre.
The workshop:
- tasting of 4 artisan beers (16 ml glasses)
- what is the difference between monk beers, abbey beers, lagers, amber, different fermentations
- reasons for serving beer in adapted glasses, etc...
Price: on request.
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VISIT OF THE CATHEDRAL TOWERS
A visit at the front towers of the Cathedral – only by the special guides – is a unique experience.
These 69-meters-high towers (= 28 floors in a contemporary building) are more than 500 years-old and confront the visitors with striking and sometimes mysterious discoveries.
The visit will mainly focus on historical and architectural aspects, among them: the Romanesque and gothic's features, building phases and restoration works, gothic vaults and rooftop, the making of the stained glasses, the bells room.
The guided tour culminates on the top of the tower, with a breath-taking panorama on the City.
We can only organize the visit the towers from March to October from Monday till Saturday and starting between 13h & 15h.
The whole guided visit takes about 3 hours
Languages : English, French or Dutch
Reservations: minimum 3 weeks in advance.
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ALL ABOUT CHOCOLATE
organized for a select group of 6-8 participants
The introduction:
- the history of chocolate in a few anecdotes
- the production of cocoa et the transformation
- quick tour to the Grand'Place & Royal Galleries focused on the different chocolate makers
- tasting of one 'praline' from de 3 different chocolate makers
The exclusive workshop in the Royal Galleries, supervised by a master chocolate maker:
- producing and decorating a chocolate bar
- producing 'cat fingers'
- decorating chocolates
- chocolate tasting
- how to store chocolates ?
- at the end: pack nicely your own production
Price: on request
Total duration: +- 2 hours
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OUR INTERACTIVE CHOCOLATE WORKSHOP "Belgian Chocolates"
The workshop will be presented by a Master Chocolate maker personally, who will let you discover all stadiums of producing one praline.
They will have the opportunity to make their own type of chocolate ! Liquid chocolate, casting-moulds, stuffing, packing….
Participants are able to take home the results of their work !
Where ? Brussels City Centre, next to the Central Station.
When? To agree.
Duration: +- 1 hour.
Languages: French, Dutch or English (please indicate with your reservation)
maximum 50p per workshop.
PRICE: on demand.
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“Best of Belgian Beers” - WORKSHOP
Date: to agree.
Duration: + - 1h
Maximum 60 participants.
Location: center Brussels City or Marolles / Saint-Gilles / Ixelles / Schaerbeek.
Some elements of the workshop:
- tasting of 4 artisan beers (16 ml glasses)
-tasting beers = look, smell, taste, drink
-what is the difference between monk beers, abbay beers, lagers, amber, different fermentations
-why to serve beer in adapted glasses,
etc...
Languages: in French, English, Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek (to be defined at the time of the reservation).
Price : on request.
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A guided visit of the Solvay Mansion
(UNESCO World Heritage Site)
The Hotel Solvay mansion in Brussels
What we are talking about is, without any shadow of doubt, one of Europe's rare gems of Art Nouveau, whose external and internal architecture complement each other in perfect harmony.
Everything in this edifice takes the breath away: the central staircase illuminated by magnificent working in glass ... the wrought iron ... the chandeliers ... the fireplaces and wall-linings with overlapping outlines.
The Solvay Hotel reflects the attention to detail and the studied care that Victor Horta brought to this complete work.
The Solvay Hotel is owned privately and is closed to the public !
Duration of the visit: 1 hour
On demand: ‘Art Nouveau dinner’ or ‘Art Nouveau City Tour’ (price & proposal on request)
Languages: in English, French, Russian, Dutch, Japanese, Spanish, Italian or German.
Maximum 60p (3 groups)/hour
Price: on demand
© OPT - J.P. Remy
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The Beer Tour & Tasting - "BEST OF BELGIAN BEERS"
Date: to agree
Duration: + - 2h – 2h1/2
Departure: between 10h00 and 19h30, to agree
Group: from 5 to 25 people
Possibility of organizing several groups at the same time.
We organize a themed walk with as subject ‘Beer’ in the city centre in interactive way and gustatory, of course!
- departure from your hotel or seminarcenter (towncentre)
- different (small) walks accompanied by a guide to Manneken-Pis, the Town square (Grand’Place) and the Royal Gallery Saint-Hubert.
- Halfway: tasting of 6 different beers with comment of our guide and accompanied with an assortment of Belgian cheese.
- return to your Hotel (centre town)
Languages: in French, English, German, Spanish, Japanese, Greek or in Dutch (to be defined at the time of the reservation). |
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Dansaert District (Brussels)
Meeting point: Main entrance Parking 58 (in front of the Hotel Novotel Tour Noire)
Short visit to the Dansaert district (duration 1h).
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Exclusive visit (with guide) of a private family art collection of contemporary art containing works from the 1970s until today. It thus offers the possibility to confront works from emerging young artists with those of more established artists by whom they were inspired. A selection of art works from the collection in the three storey exhibition space (duration 1,5h).
For this presentation, the founder and patron of the collection – the former building contractor Walter Vanhaerents – joined forces with Emma Dexter, who in recent years has curated widely acclaimed shows for ICA and Tate Modern.
In the Project Room the Vanhaerents Art Collection organizes yearly a solo exhibition of an artist whose work is represented in the collection.
The film Marilyn conjures up Marilyn Monroe through a phantasmagoric séance in a suite at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, where she lived in the 50s. It reproduces Monroe’s presence by means of three algorithms: the camera becomes her eyes, a computer reconstructs the prosody of her voice and a robot recreates her handwriting. The Hollywood icon is carnated in an image that is in fact an automaton, something resembling a human, and yet not quite real.
Languages: in English, French or Dutch.
Price: on demand
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