Events Belgium
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1st January
New Year's Day.
February
Shrove Tuesday: carnival in Binche (Hainaut), Eupen and Malmédy (Liège).
March
Ars Musica Festival. Concerts, workshops and meetings on contemporary music.
Beginning March
Dead Rat Ball in Ostend.
March-April
Easter.
1st May
Labour Day.
May
Ascension. Procession of Saint-Sang, in Bruges.
End May
Pentecost.
Brussels Jazz Marathon. Street Festival.
May to November
Flanders Festival.
End June-beginning July
Ommegang Procession in Bruxelles. Traditional Procession.
July
Ghent Celebrations.
July-August
Blankenberge festival of sand sculptures.
From mid-July to mid-September
Zeebruges festival of sand sculptures.
Brussels summer festival, including the Queen Elizabeth race.
21 July
Bank Holiday.
August
Flower carpets on the Main Square in Brussels (every other year, the next in 2008).
15 August
Assumption. Mad celebrations in Liège.
Beginning September
Celebration of mussels at Sainte-Catherine's Square in Brussels.
3rd week-end in September
Wallonia celebrations, in Namur.
Marrow festival in Antoing.
1st November
All Saints' Day.
From end November to mid-January
Bruges festival of snow and ice sculptures.
December
Christmas markets in Brussels, Bruges, Anvers, Liège, and in the eastern cantons.
25 December
Christmas.