Tongeren, commonly perceived as the oldest town in Belgium, was founded by the Romans some 2000 years ago. Today, Tongeren is a developing multi-cultural and mixed-class area. Inhabited by strikingly...
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It’s not hyperbole to say that Tongeren is home to many of the Europe’s best vintage. The city’s weekly antique market is the largest in Belgium and can justly lay...
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“Activ Fitness” has now been a historical landmark in the community of Tongeren for three and a half decades. The gym is one of the few remaining local businesses still...
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As a boy, when being in church, John Dierickx tried to capture the moments of ecstatic rapture he experienced in surrendering himself to the overwhelming magic of light and shadow brought...
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The major task of the festival, according to the organizers, is to build bridges between the EU and Russia at the time when the Russian-European relations are going through hardships....
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When Glen Loncin’s great-grandfather Norbert Loncin, a furniture maker (a promising craft at the time), started producing and selling his furniture in early 1920s, he probably didn’t think that his...
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In the evening after sunset, when the freezing violet dark blanketed the rainy streets of Hasselt, sprays of fading guitar chords and flakes of three-part harmonies were melting the hearts...
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When Bert Vangertruijden was growing up in the small village of Martenslinde (Bilzen, Belgium), an area of beautiful country houses and fruit valleys, he was often carried away by the...
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Jolien’s dream of opening her own beauty salon came about in 2013 when she was studying in Genk to become a beauty specialist. But at that point, that’s all it...
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It takes time to determine the most inspiring locally-owned cafes in the region where you live, mostly because it requires visiting every place not only once, trying out its menu...
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