Brussels is a city at the crossroads of influences and has always been multilingual.
Multicultural Brussels has always known how to draw the very best from among the many foreign influences in its midst, whether they arrived with invasions which preceded Belgian independence in 1830 or form part of the migrant flows of today. Nowadays, some 300,000 foreigners figure among the approximately million people living in the city’s 19 communes. They represent more than 169 nationalities. Fifty percent of the inhabitants of Brussels are of foreign origin. Brussels is the embodiment of a major world city built on a human scale.
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