2GO4 Quality Hostel
Our hostel is open for the budget traveler; friends, families and individuals. Unusual and strikingly different by way of its pleasant design, it has friendly atmosphere and relaxing ambience. The only hostel in the very heart of downtown Brussels. All major points of interest are just a stone throw away ...
Centre
Vincent Van Gogh Youth Hostel
Facilities: no curfew, breakfast included, laundry and kitchen; Groovy bar with more than 20 different Belgian beers, friendly multilingual staff, free locker-room, centrally located, guided tours
Brussels, Brugge, Antwerp, daily cleaning ...
Jacques Brel Youth Hostel
If you're looking to stay in Brussels in a friendly, international atmosphere, the Jacques Brel Youth Hostel is perfect for you. Located in the very heart of the city, it is ideal for all the sights. The Jacques Brel Youth Hostel organises special theme visits around Brussels, concerts, activities run by different associations and much more ...
Generation Europe Youth Hostel
The hostel has 40 rooms with 2-8 beds, and facilities including TV, video, board games, table tennis room, cafeteria, BBQ and laundry. Guided tours can also be arranged. The Generation Europe Youth Hostel is located near a park and 15 minutes walking from the sights of Brussels city centre ...
Sleep Well Hostel
In the Capital of Europe, Sleep Well is nearly more central than the Manneken Pis himself. A stone’s throw from the Grand Place, 15 minutes from the European Institutions, the hostel is located in a brand new and welcoming building. Beds in dorms
communal showers or private rooms ...
Brussels is the capital of Belgium, of the French Community of Belgium, of the Flemish Community, and is the headquarters of the European Union's institutions. Brussels is the capital city, in the centre of Belgium, and also the largest municipality of the Brussels-Capital Region. This municipality inside Brussels is correctly named The City of Brussels (French: Bruxelles-Ville or Ville de Bruxelles, Dutch: Stad Brussel), which is one of 19 municipalities that make up the Brussels-Capital Region with a total population of 1,018,804 inhabitants. The municipality has a population of about 140,000. The Metropolitan area has about 2,090,000 inhabitants.
Brussels is also the political seat of NATO, the Western European Union (WEU) and EUROCONTROL, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation,
The Brussels-Capital Region is one of the three federated regions of Belgium, alongside Wallonia and the Flemish Region. Geographically and linguistically, it is a (bilingual) enclave in the (unilingual) Flemish Region. Regions are one component of Belgium's complex institutions, the three communities being the other component: the Brussels inhabitants must deal with either the French (speaking) community or the Flemish Community for matters such as culture and education.
Two of the main institutions of the European Union - the European Commission and the Council of the European Union - have their headquarters in Brussels: the Commission in the Berlaymont building, and the Council in the Justus Lipsius building facing it. The third institution, the European Parliament, also has a parliamentary chamber in Brussels in which its committees meet and some of its plenary sessions are held (the other plenary sessions are held in Strasbourg, and its administrative headquarters are in Luxembourg). The "language border" divides Belgium into a northern, Dutch-speaking region, and a southern, French-speaking region. Although the real language border and the official one are largely identical, there are bilingual pockets on both sides with, in certain cases, no specific linguistic rights for the population speaking the other language. The Brussels-Capital Region is officially bilingual, while the majority of its residents speak French (see the linguistic history of Brussels in this article: linguistic situation section).
