City Breaks by Eurostar or by air

Bruges’ Groeninge Museum plays host to a prestigious exhibition dedicated to two titans of 15th-century art, Jan van Eyck and Albrecht Dürer, exploring the influence of the Flemish Primitives in the Holy Roman Empire. For a number of generations, Flemish art influenced artistic Europe in the fields of painting, sculpture and illuminated manuscripts to a degree that rivalled the innovations of the Italian Renaissance.

This winter, the Musée Jacquemart-André brings together the Flemish Baroque and French Classical schools of 17th-century art, with masterpieces on display by Rubens and Poussin, the chief protagonists of these artistic movements. FREE nights available!

Attracting almost 1.5 million visitors and featuring some 500 brands of car from 30 countries, it is little surprise that the Paris Motor Show remains the most popular automobile show worldwide. Not just for car manufacturers and the automobile industry, the show is a veritable Mecca for all car enthusiasts.

Fresh from its successful run in Madrid, the ‘Monet and Abstraction’ exhibition moves to Paris’ Marmottan Monet Museum this summer, re-examining the role of Claude Monet and his Impressionist masterpieces in the development of Abstract Expressionism in the second half of the 20th century.

Charge your glasses and raise a toast to Belgian’s annual beer festival, a veritable treat for beer enthusiasts and culture vultures alike. Each year, over the first weekend in September, Brussels’ Grand’Place is transformed into a beer lover’s paradise with processions of historical brewery carts and wagons arriving from the Fish Market and over 400 different Belgian beers available to taste, including the well-known names such as Stella, Jupiler, Leffe and Maes alongside the lesser-known trappist, abbey and fruit beers.