[Editor’s Note: The following story is the 14th in the series Bits of the Benelux. This series takes a deep dive into the stories, cultures and traditions found throughout Belgium, the Netherlands and ...
The Army's Donation Program, run by U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command, approved a World War II era M4 Sherman Tank to be displayed by the Mons Memorial Museum in Belgium. The tank will ...
Tanks are seen during a parade to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Brussels in Mons, Belgium, on Sept. 1, 2019. The allied forces liberated Brussels from German occupation in 1944 during ...
As the designated 'European Capitals of Culture,' two little known cities -- Mons, Belgium and Pilsen, in the Czech Republic -- will host year-long festivals, art exhibits and concerts in a bid to ...
Mons made the most of its status as one of the Cultural Capitals of Europe this year: It opened five new museums and has started work on a Van Gogh Trail honoring the painter, who was living in the ...
The graves at a cemetery outside the Belgian town of Mons hold the remains of both the first and last British soldiers to fall in World War I. The Saint Symphorien site is less well-known than larger ...
MONS, Belgium — The car bounces along cobbled streets, past shops and cathedrals, their spires soaring toward gray skies. It’s a sleepy Saturday morning in the fourth-largest city in Wallonia, the ...