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 The Royal Palace of Brussels is open to the public from 26 July to 13 September. Every year, when the Belgian royals leave on holiday after the National Day, the Brussels Palace is opened for the public, and people can take a look inside the Palace which houses the King’s office. A tour takes you through the beautiful ballrooms, past the official state portraits of the various Kings and Queens of Belgium, and through the impressive room with the green beetle ceiling. Throughout the palace, a scientific exhibition is organized, also with some fun experiments for children, set up by Technopolis.

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The King opened the exhibition officially on July 20th.

Visiting the Brussels Palace is free of charge, and the Palace is opened every day, except Mondays. If you have a chance to visit, be sure to go there! However, please note taking pictures is not allowed.

For a thread about the Royal Palace of Brussels, see here.

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King Albert II of Belgium has offered the Belgian government to help them to pay for the renovation costs necessary to freshen up the Royal Palace in Brussels. The Palace will be used for the European-Asian Summit (ASEM) during the Belgian presidency of the European Union. The Belgian government will pay for the refurbishment of the Palace. Most of the works will be painting and brushing up other details.

King Albert offered to take responsibility for part of the bill, to an amount of 600,000 EUR maximum. The money will come from the Civil List, the “dotation” of the King. The King wants to help the Belgian government, which is currently heading for an immense deficit in the budget, by taking on about a third of the projected costs. He suggested this during an audience with Prime Minister Van Rompuy.

For an article on the subject, see here.

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