Summer

To occupy your children during the summer holidays, you are spoilt for choice: the Sonian Forest is just a stone's throw away, and ideal for long quiet walks or to build the largest hut in the world! And there's always something to do in the numerous parks of the capital: Lire dans les Parcs, the numerous playgrounds... Brussels is the greenest capital in Europe and has certainly earned its title!

You can also swoop down to Forest Park to experience the capital's most sparkling festival with your children: Park Poetik, it's a whole weekend of activities, shows and music for the family, and it's not to be missed!

At the end of August, the Théâtres Nomades festival puts up its marquees in Brussels Park for the 12^th time. Puppets, street theatre, acrobats, jugglers and musicians share with you their love of performance, their appreciation of others and the art of living together. It’s a unique human experience that’s free of charge!

Also at the end of the month, the Brussels Games Festival transforms Cinquantenaire Park into a gigantic games area for all! Whether you’re an amateur, just curious or completely hooked, bring your family and (re)discover the joy of playing together. Fun is guaranteed!

On the last weekend of August, puppet festival Insifon at Meudon Park in Neder-Over-Heembeek will set the tone.

Take your Smurfs to the Brussels Comic Strip Festival or travel through Brussels to marvel at its comic strip murals. Transform them into brave knights and beautiful princesses from the Middle Ages at the Fêtes Romanes at Wolubilis.

Under no circumstances should you miss the pleasure of sitting on the lawns and straw bales of Bucolic Brussels, the big car-free day party in the heart of the capital.