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Tours for groups
How to organise a tour in Brussels for your group
Tours can be organised on request any day of the week.
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38 years of independent comment on the city –
30 years of guided tours
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2008 Season
City tours timetable
2008 program is available on line.
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Practical information
Prices, booking procedure , guides, etc.
Information for participants
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 While attending the first UN environmental conference in Stockholm in 1972, the former President of ARAU, René Schoonbrodt, was impressed by the guided tours of areas due for redevelopment given by local residents, which included their own opinions on the implications for themselves and their neighbours. Back in Brussels, he developed a range of “militant” tours from 1977 onwards, under the umbrella heading of “Brussels as seen by its residents”, that were widely emulated.
Article Two of the Francophone Community Education Minister’s decree on Continuing Education of 1976, revised in 2003, states that continuing education should aim to “make people aware, via a critical approach, of the issues facing Society”. These tours fit both into this category, and also into that of front-line cultural tourism.
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ARAU is not a run-of-the-mill tourist organisation.
Since 1969, this non-profit local residents’ group has been outspoken in its calls for high-quality design in the reconstruction and development of Brussels and for local residents’ views to be taken into account when redeveloping neighbourhoods. The vigilant concern and goodwill of its members led to the development of its unique range of guided tours, originally intended for local residents.
Regularly updated to take account of recent developments, the tours encourage us to re-evaluate urban life in Brussels by understanding the city’s development (past-present-future) and by living and acting as responsible citizens.
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