Belgium - If Belgium's spotlight on the European stage is a little dim, it's only because its people are rarely boastful. This slow-burning country has more history, art, food and architecture packed into its tiny self than many of its bigger, louder neighbours.
A rich and bubbling vat of beer, chocolate, oil paint and bureaucrats, Belgium gives off the heady pong of the bourgeoisie. But stir the pot a little and you'll find an 'artificial state' roughly made up of two parts Germanic Flemings to one part Celtic-Latin Walloons.
Divided by pride first and language second, the country's binding agents are a pervasive sense of family and an indomitable entrepreneurial spirit. Visitors, lulled by the locals' friendliness, will probably not even notice the tensions that spark across the Linguistic Divide.
Steenhouwersdijk Bruges B-8000 Belgium
Hotel Rating : 4 Star Hotel
Hotel Golden Tulip De' Medici Brugges Belgium
Potterierei 15 8000 Brugges, Belgium
Hotel Rating : 4 Star Hotel
Hotel Heritage Brugges Belgium
Niklaas Desparsstraat Brugges -West Flanders - Belgium
Hotel Rating : 4 Star Hotel
Hotel Navarra Brugges Belgium
41 Sint-Jakobsstraat B-8000 Brugges Belgium
Hotel Rating : 4 Star Hotel
Hotel Sofitel Brugges Belgium
Boeveriestraat 2, Brugges, 8000, Belgium
Hotel Rating : 4 Star Hotel
Hotel Ter Brughe Brugges Belgium
22, Naaldenstraat B-8000 Brugges Belgium
Hotel Rating : 4 Star Hotel
Romatik Pandhotel Brugges Belgium
Pandreitje 16 8000 Bruges Belgium
Hotel Rating : 4 Star Hotel
Relais Bourgondisch Cruyce Hotel Brugges Belgium
Wollestraat 41-47 8000 Brugge, Belgium
Hotel Rating : 4 Star Hotel
Scandic Hotel Brugges Belgium
Wijngaardstraat 7 8000 Brugges Belgium
Hotel Rating : 4 Star Hotel
Novotel Zuid Hotel Brugge
Chartreuseweg 20 8200 Sint-Michiels Brugge Belgium
Hotel Rating : 3 Star Hotel
Novotel Centre Hotel Brugges Belgium
Avenue du Lac - B-1332 Genval (Brussels) - Belgium
Hotel Rating : 3 Star Hotel
Oud Huis Amsterdam Hotel Brugges Belgium
Spiegelrei 3 8000 Brugges Belgium
Hotel Rating : 3 Star Hotel
Oud Huis De Peellaert Hotel Brugges Belgium
Hoogstraat 20 8000 Brugges Belgium
Hotel Rating : 4 Star Hotel
Portinari Hotel Brugges Belgium
T Zand 15 8000 Brugge Belgium
Hotel Rating : 4 Star Hotel
Wijngaardstraat 7 8000 Brugges Belgium
Hotel Rating : 4 Star Hotel
Azalea Hotel Brugges Belgium
Wulfhagestraat 43 8000 Brugges, Belgium
Hotel Rating 4 Star Hotel
Best Western Acacia Hotel Brugges Belgium
Korte Zilverstraat 3-a 8000 Brugges, Belgium
Hotel Rating : 4 Star Hotel
Crowne Plaza Hotel Brugges Belgium
Burg 10, 8000 Brugge Belgium
Hotel Rating : 4 Star Hotel
Europ Hotel Brugges Belgium
Augustijnenrei 18 B-8000 Brugge Belgium
Hotel Rating : 2 Star Hotel
Flanders Hotel Brugges Belgium
Langestraat 38 Brugge Belgium
Hotel Rating : 4 Star Hotel
Gasthof Groenhove Hotel Brugges Belgium
Gulden Peerdenstraat 30 - 8310 Brugge, Belgium
Hotel Rating : 3 Star Hotel
Grand Hotel du Sablon Brugges Belgium
Noorzandstraat 21 8000 Brugges, Belgium
Hotel Rating : 3 Star Hotel
Hans Memling Hotel Brugges Belgium
18, Kuipersstraat B-8000 Bruges Belgium
Hotel Rating : 4 Star Hotel
Hotel Aragon Brugges Belgium
22, Naaldenstraat B-8000 Brugges Belgium
Hotel Rating : 4 Star Hotel
Hotel Dante Brugges Belgium
Coupure 29A 8000 Brugges Belgium
Hotel Rating : 3 Star Hotel
Hotel De Orangerie Brugges Belgium
Kartuizerinnenstraat 10 Brugge B-8000 Belgium
Hotel Rating : 4 Star Hotel
Hotel De Tuilerieen Brugges Belgium
7, Dyver 8000 Brugges Belgium
Hotel Rating : 4 Star Hotel
Ibis Hotel Brugges Belgium
Katelijnestraat 65A B-8000 Brugge Belgium
Hotel Rating : 3 Star Hotel