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Around the 1,000-year-old historic center of Brussels, a group of ring roads form concentric circles. Crossing them is like traveling back and forth across the centuries. Brussels once had a river, the Senne, but it was buried in the 19th century after becoming clogged with sewage; the absence of left and right riverbanks can make orientation in the city a bit difficult. More »

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• Cinquantenaire and Schuman
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