Brussels City Parade 2012 Live Stream, Bruxelles Parade and Music Festival

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 2011. 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.

Local Weather:

Plan your trip Local Radar Detailed Forecast