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Brussels Sustainability

PRESS RELEASE

Brussels, 3 September 2012

A September in Brussels: Brussels is full of green events, sustainable sporting and gastronomic!

Throughout the month of September, Brussels is full of green events, sustainable, sports and leisure. Come breathe and enjoy the joys of a sustainable city …

The Brussels-Capital Region presents: EAT! Brussel, one of the flagship events of the Year of Gastronomy 2012

From September 13 to 16, the “Festival of Brussels Restaurant” will bring together more than 30 restaurants from the 19 municipalities of the capital for 4 days to share their expertise and their passion for good products with an audience of connoisseurs.

Under Brusselicious 2012, these thematic villages (village Brussels, the International Village, the village Asia, the Mediterranean village and the village “Kitchen of the World”) will be the meeting place of all specialties and all the peculiarities of the restoration Brussels. Tastings offered by the restaurant chefs will be offered at reduced rates (6 euros) as tastings prepared on site.

Entertainment for the whole family

Beyond gastronomic discoveries, a varied entertainment program awaits the young and old in the Bois de La Cambre has been selected to host the event in view of its situation and its beautiful expanses of lawns.

In the evening, the DJ and groups invited by the organization resonate in the forest until 22h while Wood and Winter Games host the after party on Friday 14 and Saturday 15 September. Day Sunday without cars will help families discover greedily festival EAT! Brussels from 11h to 20h.

è EAT! Brussel: www.eatbrussels.be

Brussels taste for the senses

The ambition to show another image of Brussels, the capital of eco-gastronomy, a green city where it is good to walk from one city to go in all directions …

Monday 17 to Sunday, September 23, 2012, around our old capital, restaurants start mode ‘good, clean and fair’ by offering one or more courses, products, menus, drinks or actions stamped Slow Food. More than 70 brands (snacks and healthy snacks, host tables and caterers, kitchens or community-oriented social neighborhood bistros and great-starred restaurants, wine bars or beer) are participating in this week’s Taste valuing one maximum local producers and seasonal produce, organic farmers or handicrafts.

Slow Food: The rediscovery of taste

The event Taste Brussels is based on the principles of Slow Food, namely friendliness, good food and taste education, protection of the environment, protection of biodiversity and food heritage and the creation links between producers and consumers.

Karikol, the Brussels branch of Slow Food, rides restaurants that allow visitors to enter premises artisanal production often closed to the public to discover the excellent local honey and offers courses in organic gardening.

è Taste Brussels: www.karikol.be

PiQniQ: A Sunday lazing on the grass

Under Brusselicious 2012, VISITBRUSSELS proposes to find family, friends, easily, in a location ephemeral, light and integrated.

Sunday afternoon at 2, 9 and 16 September 2012, piQniQ will discover our beautiful parks in another way, to learn about bread making, dance, participate in the discovery trail nature. Artisans, producers and processors from the four corners of Belgium will present the results of their exciting work coming from organic agriculture. Everyone sits where he wants: table on the grass in a deckchair, tent, sun, …

è piQniQ in Brussels parks: www.brusselicious.be

Agenda tours

From March to December, Brussels, Belgium and visitors have the opportunity to discover Brussels through themed rides organized by the five member associations Voir et Dire Bruxelles. Some tours are associated with the highlights of the year (BD Brussels, Magritte).

This Agenda is available free on request, present a description of tours and schedule of the various activities in three languages: French, Dutch and English.

è The schedule of tours Brussels: www.voiretdirebruxelles.be

Ecotrail Brussels

The first edition of the Ecotrail Brussels will take place Saturday, September 29, 2012 with one queen 80km distance as that borrow the paths of the Sonian Forest Green and walk to get to the Atomium.

The concept of Ecotrail launched in Paris a few years ago, and will highlight the most beautiful green spaces in the European capital in its own way and greet the two other regions, Flanders and Wallonia. Start of the first edition: ADEPS Centre, Chaussée de Wavre 2057, 1160 Auderghem.

è The website Ecotrail: www.ecotrailbrussels.com

The Roller Parade hunt cars

For some years now, the “Roller Parade” stopped in the most beautiful cities of Belgium, and of course, Brussels is no exception! The principle is always the same: to provide “aficionados” of skates able to walk safely on an urban route free of cars … Otherwise, it happens every Friday between 19h and 23h again until 28 September. The start is “Poelaertplein” and there are two courses (beginner: from 20h to 21h & confirmed: from 21h to 23h). The Brussels Roller Parade is also open to bikes provided you follow one simple rule: follow behind the last skater and never back in the group of rollers.

è The “roller parade” Friday evening www.belgiumrollers.com

A DAY WITHOUT THE CAR Sunday, September 16, 2012

Mobility Week and Car Free Day 2012

In Brussels and throughout Europe, at the same time, organizes the Mobility Week. A week to get to know and use alternative ways to use the car in the city: train, bicycle, tram, bus, skates … The highlight of this week will be Sunday without a car, held on 16 September 2012 on the whole territory of the Brussels Region.

You hear the birds?

The Car Free Sunday will apply to all. With the exception of taxis, public transport, bus travel, support services, law enforcement and people with a pass. All of the Brussels Region will be closed to traffic from 9h to 19h. Of course, public transport circulate that day and, in addition, they will be free.

“My village in the city” in 10 communes of Brussels

This Sunday, September 16, 2012, “My village in the city” will allow you to take advantage of areas of conviviality and tranquility on the symbolic places of ten communes of Brussels (Brussels and Neder-over-Heembeek, Saint-Josse, Schaerbeek, Anderlecht, Saint Gilles, Molenbeek, Jette, Evere, Etterbeek and Watermael-Boitsfort). This initiative aims to develop a space for meeting and awareness at the heart of Commons, compared to a decentralized business units usual car-free day. You will find a lawn, a festive and peaceful atmosphere and many activities.

è www.dimanchesansvoiture.irisnet.be

The 24th edition of National Heritage Days: Stones and men

Those are the major figures and remarkable places in Brussels that we want you to enjoy. After “Stones and Letters”, the theme of the Heritage Days 2011, now is the time “stones and men” on 15 and 16 September 2012.

Of men and women who built, converted, inhabited or haunted illustrated these places that command our admiration and excite our curiosity. Castles, churches, schools, monasteries, caves, palaces and humble cottages sheltered time those who inhabit our imaginations or honor our region. What seemed like a challenge becomes successful because it is not less than 400 proposals of discovery available to you, each combining a monument or a site remarkable unusual character.

è Heritage Days: http://www.monument.irisnet.be/fr/sensibi/newsjdp.htm

Rural Brussels celebrates its tenth anniversary!

Perhaps the most unusual car-free day! Block although the date of Sunday, September 16, 2012, to share with friends an unforgettable day, friendly and festive front of the Palais Royal and the Parc de Bruxelles.

Imagine all the farm animals in the heart of the capital to bring the country to the city, the largest urban picnic with 4,000 m² of fresh grass placed on the pavement, the largest gathering of small farmers, organic farmers and artisans local and slow food, a variety of entertainment, informational booths and games for all. Visit the Place des Palais for the car-free day!

è http://www.bruxelles-champetre.be

JOIN U.S. FOR THE DAY LIBERCITY!

Discover Brussels differently. Learn that it is possible to visit Brussels even when PMR is a …. Disabled person but like other tourists.

A tourist guide (paper and web) “Brussels for all” is already published, mobilize us for complete and allow everyone to enjoy the abundance of cultural and recreational activities in Brussels.

During the day LIBERCITY, groups consisting of five students will walk in different parts of the Region of Brussels-Capital. Wednesday, September 19, they will be provided with a kit of apprentices experts to measure, photograph, comment on public spaces visited to check the accessibility of PRM. (Ex: height of steps, tables, toilet facilities, rooms of museums, …)

è Libercity: www.bruxellespourtous.be

Press Contacts:

VISITBRUSSELS

Martha Meeze: @ m.meeze visitbrussels.be – +32 486 53 31 81

Pierre-Olivier Massart: @ p.massart visitbrussels.be – 32 475 53 August 07