Heritage day 2

2nd and last day of the heritage day. After swimming my 1 km, direction a glass factory.

They show us how they do stain glasses.

These are some original creations

just amazing with the sun

They also have a school, so you can see many creations

From modern

to ancient

Sample of glasses

The girl showed us the full process of creation this was welding

After that that direction a printing factory

No demo there so just a quick look :-)

And finally an old Renault Factory

Today the press of Belgium is working there

this is the rest room

Just a nice building outside

And for my efforts some broa and Portuguese's cakes

Heritage day 1

This week-end is heritage days. So early this morning I went to see some of it. This year: Industrie.
First visite called: glaciere. Today an administrative building

But under it a huge storage where they used to store ice, before fridges exist

And also hang meet because of course it was cold

This room was full of ice!

Then direction a former coffee factory, now some offices and apartments. Could just see the outside...

This is a former wine factory

With some art nouveau style

This was the factory with the offices of the bosses watching the employees

Yeah free wine distribution, or not....

I love this style, a bit like Eiffel

Small break to have a salmon bagel and some limonade, outside between 2 showers :-)

Back to the wine building, still nothing to drink...

And then direction a former Waucquer textile factory

with it's art nouveau counter

and impressive lift

This is where they used to cut the textiles

and the catalog of what they offered

Today this is national archives of Brussels

Not so convenient for paper...

Beautiful stairs

 And old pair of scissors
All that I have seen was always with free tour

Statue outside
And tomorrow day 2!

European commision

 At and near the european commission

Actually there  are buildings everywhere

I especially like this one, pretty amazing

You have different styles and status everywhere

I think in this building they take care of children

This one is called caprice des dieux because of its shape

And nearby a parc to relax, well was not this week-end because it is raining like crazy....

This one is also pretty big...

With all the european flags

And of course the euro
Next step visit the parliament when there is a session :-)

park du cinquantenaire

When I saw pictures of it, I first though oh this is Berlin

But no, this is really in Brussels

Look waffles

although it looks so similar :-)

Inside there is q big museum that I have to visit, but there are so many museums here, I need more time!