Brussels

1

Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula

Three hundred years to finish a church. That's not construction — that's a city arguing with itself about what it owes…

2

Central Gate

1934. Shell needed a building that did several things at once — house its Belgian headquarters, rent out offices, sell goods at street level, and park cars. So they built exactly…

3

Grand-Place

1934. Shell needed a building that did several things at once—house its Belgian headquarters, rent out offices, sell goods at street level, and park cars. So they built exactly that, and in doing so, they answered the…

4

St. Gorik Hall

In 1802, the rubble was still warm — or at least, still recent. The French had spent three years stripping the Gothic church that stood here, and when they left, the city didn't mourn. It built a…

5

Church of St. Catherine

The canal was filled in, and suddenly the church had a square. That's not how most sacred buildings get their setting — it's how this one…

6

Church of St. John the Baptist at the Béguinage

Before 1247, a community of women built themselves a small city here — outside the walls, deliberately beyond the reach of the Church's formal…

7

Jeanneke Pis

A man named Denis-Adrien Debouvrie commissioned this in 1985, and the city let him put it here — tucked down an alley most tourists walk past without turning their…

8

Royal Saint-Hubert Galleries

Commerce, when it has enough ambition, stops pretending it's only commerce. That's what happened…

9

À la Mort Subite

Step inside, and the Galleries fall away. The noise, the marble, the ambition — gone. What replaces it is the low hum of a room that has been doing exactly this since…

10

Museum of the National Bank of Belgium

Think about what this city decided was worth remembering — and who got to make that…

Dit zijn de openingsregels van elke stop. Het volledige verhaal — en de audio — hoor je in de app.

Hoe lang is de wandeling door Brussels?

Ongeveer 60 minuten lopen, met 10 stops over 3.9 km. Je kunt pauzeren en later verder gaan waar je gebleven was.

Wat komt er voorbij in de audiotour van Brussels?

10 ingesproken stops, te beginnen bij Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula en eindigend bij Museum of the National Bank of Belgium. Elke stop speelt automatisch zodra je er bent.

Heb ik internet of mobiele data nodig?

Nee. Download de wandeling één keer in de PodWalk-app en het verhaal speelt volledig offline — handig tijdens het roamen in België. Gps start elke stop zodra je aankomt.

Is de audiotour van Brussels gratis?

Je eerste wandeling in PodWalk is gratis. Daarna gaan wandelingen via eenmalige passen vanaf $2,99 — geen abonnement, niets wordt automatisch verlengd.

Kan ik de tour in mijn eigen tempo lopen?

Ja. Geen gids en geen schema — begin wanneer je wilt, blijf zo lang staan als je wilt, en de volgende stop start automatisch zodra je er bent.