42/50.- Brussels, the Tervueren Park

Brussels is linked to the park of Tervueren by a centenary road that bears some resemblance to the Paris Champs Elysées. The analogy is quite deliberate: King Leopold II wanted to lend Brussels some of the prestige and beauty of the French capital. The Tervueren museum, seen in this picture, was to be his equivalent of the Versailles palace. It used to contain the Colonial Museum, appropriately renamed the Museum of Central Africa after Belgium lost its colony, the Belgian Congo.

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