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The Two Belgiums: Art, Gastronomy, and the Quiet Brilliance of Europe’s Most Underrated Nation

Belgium is not one country but two — perhaps three, if one counts the German-speaking eastern cantons — and this is precisely its genius. Within a territory smaller than Maryland, two cultures have produced, in productive tension, one of Europe’s richest artistic, gastronomic, and architectural heritages. The Flemish north and the Francophone south share a…
