Viva Brussels
Viva Brussels is an organisation that offers alternative tip-based tours. They promote the democratization of tourism while collaborating with other social and ecological projects.They offer daily tours of the city center. Besides that, they also offer 2 different tip-based walks, covering wider part of Brussels and it's secrets (European Quarter or Sablon district).
Languages: English & Spanish
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Viva Brussels
La Fonderie
La Fonderie
Ket-Toeren
Ket offers pleasant walks through Brussels, adapted to your wishes. Groups, families and companies have a range of choice of theme tours. Every guided tour can be combined with a visit to an authentic café, and/or buying Belgian chocolates ('pralines'), and/or having snacks. For Primary schools we offer special topic-tours, adapted to the pupils' age.
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Ket-Toeren
stadtfuehrung.be
stadtfuehrung.be specializes in guided tours in German in Brussels and Belgium: classics on foot or by bus, architecture, neighbourhoods, museum visits or unknown places.
Languages: German, English, French, Dutch, Italian
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stadtfuehrung.be
Laeken Découverte asbl
The “Laeken Découverte” association offers guided tours for groups upon request, focusing on the Royal Greenhouses and the cemetery of Laeken, two musts for any tourist interested in the city’s royal heritage.
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Laeken Découverte asbl
Arkadia
Since 1983, Arkadia has been exploring the richness of Belgium's and Brussels' heritage and developing numerous cultural projects especially in Brussels, between architecture, urbanism, culture, plastic arts and ideology from the Middle Ages to the present day. Seeing and understanding the city and its architectural development, approaching artistic creation and giving it meaning, these are the activities that the ASBL wants to share with the public. Specialists in architectural heritage and contemporary art, they show the city through guided tours and lectures in several languages.
Arkadia
CAP-ERIA
Founded in April 2013, Cap-Eria offers high-class cultural events for individuals and designs "tailor-made" recreative events for groups, associations, organizations and companies. These events are built from ‘thematic modules’ such as Architecture, Art Nouveau, Artisans, Artists, Contemporary Art, Comics, Culture, Green Spaces, History, Off the beaten tracks, Heritage. Guided tours are available in English, French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, …
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CAP-ERIA
Isa dans la ville
Visit Brussels with its surprising history, its treasures and its architecture, through a 2 hours pedestrian walk.
Born in Brussels, Isabelle is passionate about history and wants to share her enthousiasm with visitors from every country, around several themes: back to the Middle Ages, Brussels and the baroque period, the golden Industrial Revolution, the birth of a kingdom, the Art Nouveau in Brussels,...or any specific request.
Languages: French or English.
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Isa dans la ville
AlterBrussels
AlterBrussels is a not-for-profit association that unites lovers of Brussels and develops numerous projects aimed at promoting and spreading awareness of immaterial, intangible, touristic and cultural heritage, but above all the diversity of the people and inhabitants of Brussels, as intangible human heritage. Our innovative and original project provides an alternative form of tourism both for the inhabitants of Brussels and for tourists. We organize meet-ups and themed visits with a view to promoting the wealth of the city to visitors, and increasing the goodwill of co-inhabitants of Brussels towards one another. We also organize cooperative projects to promote the countries of origin of the city’s co-inhabitants as well as international relations. Lastly, we organize workshops and training sessions for a wide range of audiences.
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AlterBrussels
Stapstad
Stapstad is an organisation who offers a visit for children en youth in Brussels. We discover the center of the city telling the history by statues and monuments.
We visit quarters such as Matongé and Marollen... We look for the river that crossed the city and we look for the tradional dishes. At least we talk about the diversity of Molenbeek.
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Stapstad
Brussels Chatterguides
In the company of a chatty guide, discover the many facets of Brussels since 1983: from the Grand Place to the Art Nouveau districts, from chocolate to Belgian beers, from Bruegel to comics, taste all the flavours of Belgianness. Original, exciting and friendly guided tours and events are offered by this non-profit organisation. For example, rallies, sound walks, online conferences... For groups and companies, tailor-made tours are available.
Brussels Chatterguides
Culturama
Culturama is one of Brussels’ most experienced tourist organisations as it has been organising various types of guided visits since its foundation in 1991. Culturama, as you can derive from its name, offers you an interesting way to get acquainted with both cultural aspects and urbanistic development of the city centre, some typical quarters and sometimes even wider surroundings (by coach) of the capital of Belgium and of the European Union.
For further information, throw an eye on our website: www.culturamavzw.be. , sure you will feel overwhelmed by the wide range of explorations.
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Culturama
Global Enterprises
Global Enterprises Tours is a professional trade company created with the primary purpose of promoting Brussels’s legacy within the tour operator industry.
The company specialises in providing competitive and superior quality tours to independent travellers, whether private or in a custom group, through a diverse brochure of tour programs and packages, including chocolate, beer and cuisine and city discovery.
The company is also an adept of the tailor-made travel, customizable to suit the needs and preferences of the clients and therefore organizing tours as well in Bruges, Gent or Luxembourg.
Languages: English, Dutch, French.
Guided tours associations
Global Enterprises
Pro Velo
Pro Velo
Explore.Brussels
Explore.Brussels is a network of associations that organize top-quality guided tours in the Brussels-Capital Region.
Its membre associations are ARAU, Pro Velo, Brussels Chatterguides and Arkadia. La Fonderie (in 2020) & Korei (in 2021) joined the network as a partner association.
Discover UNESCO’s heritage, Art nouveau, Victoria Horta, Magritte, Hergé, Street art, Europe, beer, chocolate, or visit buildings built in Art Nouveau, Art Deco or neoclassical style that are usually closed for public visits. Tours are available for individual visitors and groups, and organized in a classical, exceptional or completely new way. Besides walking tours, visits can be organized by bike, bus or boat.
Explore.Brussels organizes the Brussels Art Nouveau & Art Deco (BANAD) Festival and Brussels Biennale – Neoclassic (BBN), Brussels Biennale of Eclectic Architecture (BBEA) as well as other projects such as the visits of Art Nouveau Mansions, the formation of tour guides, the owners club and the friends club.
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Explore.Brussels
Vizit
It’s been ten years since the Vizit-guides have been walking down the streets of Brussels. They love sharing the stories they found, the places they discovered… and this with only one goal in mind: contaminate you with the love they have for this wonderful city.
Follow them to the historical heart of the city, discover the hidden corners and find out everything about the Matongé, the Marolles or the Sablon. All these neighbourhoods lead a life of their own and have all the ingredients for an ideal Vizittrip.
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Vizit
Sterkmans Events
Sterkmans Events is a Brussels event agency with more than 20 years of experience. We offer team-building, discovery tours, special dinners & activities.
Get inspired with some of our programs:
- Shooting with the cross bow at one of the oldest Belgian corporations, officially recognised in 1213 by the Duke of Brabant and is intimately linked with the earliest history of Brussels.
- City Game: stop staring at your smartphones & focus on the strategy. Two versions: Brussels centre or the Sablon/ Marolles district.
- Gastronomic walks: the original 'walking' dinner, a culinary walk + discovering the city. Follow our guide around a circuit of landmarks such as Manneken Pis, the Grand’ Place, the Ilot Sacré and the Royal Galleries (3 walks of 30 mins).
- Guided walks & bus tours: experience our ‘SWEET’ guided walk. Discover the city and try 3 different ‘pralines’ from artisan chocolate makers. At the end of the walk: a Brussels waffle + coffee or tea, served in a 'typical' Brussels venue.
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Sterkmans Events
Eglise et tourisme Bruxelles
The association offers free guided tours, whole year round, of all the churches of Brussels, but also discovery walking tours starting in one of the Brussels churches: Sablon, Marolles, Beguinage, the Cathedral…
A visit at the front towers of the Cathedral can also be organized – only accompanied by the guides of the towers. These 69-meters-high towers are more than 500 years old and confront the visitors with striking and sometimes mysterious discoveries.
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Eglise et tourisme Bruxelles
Brussels City Tours
Brussels City Tours offers organized excursions to the most beautiful and important landmarks of Brussels and Belgium and its surroundings. Luxury coaches and professional drivers take you comfortably and safely to the destination of your choice, where professional and multilingual (English, French and Spanish) guides will accompany you on a varied and interesting journey.
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Brussels City Tours