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Brussels (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE) |  | Author: DK Publishing
Publisher: DK Travel
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 83414
Media: Turtleback
Edition: Rev Upd
Pages: 208
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0756624401
Dewey Decimal Number: 914.930443
EAN: 9780756624408
ASIN: 0756624401
Publication Date: January 15, 2007
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Product Description
This travel guide covers all the major sights - museums, galleries, churches, parks and historic monuments - in Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp. It offers special features on Belgium history , culture and art and includes material on art nouveau, tapestry, lace and architecture. Its cutaways, floor plans and 3-D maps help you to explore sights including Cathedrale St-Michel-et-Gidule, Musees Royaux des Beaux Arts: d'art ancient and d'art moderne, Parc Cinquantenaire and Groeninge Museum.
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 Great, handy reference February 24, 2009
M. McElroy (Austin TX)
I like to see what's there before I go somewhere. This book makes it easy to do. It covers history, culture, shopping, food, and does it all with great color maps, photos and drawings. This particular book is slim and light so it will be easy to pack.
 Mostly Brussels June 18, 2007
M. Natraj (Oslo, Norway)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
We recently took a trip to Belgium, where we intended to visit Brugge, Antwerp, and Brussels, although in the end, we dropped Antwerp in favor of spending more time in Brugge. I bought a copy of this book on the advice that it had a lot of coverage beyond Brussels.
Like most EyeWitness guides, the photos, sketched 3D area maps, etc. were all brilliant for identifying points of interest and notable details. The suggested walking tours also proved to be a great resource, since these cities are best visited simply by wandering the streets rather than heading straight for key destinations.
My only qualm with the book is that (as the title suggests) it is heavy on Brussels. This was a little disappointing, having heard that it included adequate coverage of the other cities in its subtitle. Nearly 75% of the book is dedicated to the capital with the other cities receiving only around a half dozen pages each. If you're planning to spend a lot of time in Brugge, Antwerp, or Ghent, I'd recommend finding a book with more focused coverage. If you plan to spend a lot of time in Brussels, with daytrips to one or more of the other cities, this book would probably be great.
At last - A DK Guide that's not too heavy January 11, 2007
John H. Turner (Novato, CA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Perfect for Belgium. Brussels, Bruge, Antwerp are all well done. The quality of the DK series makes them the pick of the class, but heavy. It's the only guilde that emmanates a feel for the area's architecture. I used the hotel section comparatively with other guides. It finished slightly ahead. What is unusual is a non-tourist perspective is part of the review mix. I am an intelligent successful high tech businessman and not particularly interested in clowns staying away from people that are. To me travel is not an entertainment video. It is a mix of pleasure, leisure, and learning while keeping in reasonable cost effective contact with the world that enabled me to make the trip. This is the one area that could use improvement. "Internet access" is a meaningless description. What's the cost, how fast, what mode, where, and how often is it available? For decades the hotel telephone has been the ultimate rip off tool. Now it's morphed into the cell phone realm. Despite what you have read international calling is still very expensive. When Best Western doesn't charge for the identical serice that Hyatt, Hilton,
Marriott, etc. do is it very clear whose happiness is primary despite what the brochure says. A lot more help on this would be most appreciated. Kudos to DK for giving local food a serious look. The inclusion of small, medium and high end places is a refreshing and useful change. For some reason no mention is made of the "ladies of the evening" displaying their virtues through sidewalk level bay windows along the street parallel to the Brussels airport-to-central station route about five minutes before it ends. After a long flight it provides a little spice that was missing in the airline food.
GREAT TRAVEL BOOK March 21, 2006
S. Thornton (Nashville, TN)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This was an indispensable tool my navigation of Belgium. I also purchased the Top 10, published by DK just so I would not miss anything. I liked the large maps and the clear directions to the venues. The pictures were GREAT. This book greatly enhanced my journey.
The best travel book around! February 24, 2006
E. Erlendsson (Washington, DC USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
DK guides are by far the best for any trip -- their black-by-block walking guides just can't be beat.
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