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Brussels gets a grip on downtown tackiness


Brussels' exquisitely preserved Grand-Place itself is a world heritage site that dazzles visitors year-round, but in the maze of narrow streets around it, the beauty of a Magritte sky framing centuries-old Flemish gables surrenders quickly to an ugliness stemming from years of planning neglect.In 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels penned their Communist Manifesto — "a specter is haunting Europe, the specter of communism" — in a cabaret overlooking Brussels' spectacular Grand-Place.





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