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Event Information:
The
Brussels City Parade is a large
gathering of electronic music held
annually in a city of Belgium by the
end of June first, then then early
September. In a few years, the City
Parade has become the biggest event
in Belgium, involving between
150,000 and 300,000 people each
year. The City Parade is a festival
of electronic dance music which will
be held in Brussels on 27 August
. The 11th edition of the
festival will take place in the
North quarter, with a parade of
trucks and several concerts.
There
is and Opening party from noon till
4 pm, followed by the main Parade, 4
pm till 6:30 pm, including a parade
of trucks with music on a trail
between the North Station and Tour &
Taxis. The Closing Festival
then takes place from 5 pm till 2
am. The Closing party at Tour &
Taxis has 4 stages (house,
electro/new disco, techno/tech
house/minimal and hard styles).
Brussels has grown from a
10th-century fortress town founded
by a descendant of Charlemagne into
a metropolis of more than one
million inhabitants. The
metropolitan area has a population
of over 1.8 million, making it the
largest in Belgium.
Since
the end of the Second World War,
Brussels has been a main center for
international politics. Hosting
principal EU institutions as well as
the headquarters of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO),
the city has become the polyglot
home of numerous international
organisations, politicians,
diplomats and civil servants.
Although historically
Dutch-speaking, Brussels became
increasingly French-speaking over
the 19th and 20th centuries. Today a
majority of inhabitants are native
French-speakers, and both languages
have official status. Linguistic
tensions remain, and the language
laws of the municipalities
surrounding Brussels are an issue of
considerable controversy in Belgium.
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