My Photo Treks

  Belgium is a federal constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system. It is divided into three highly autonomous regions, Flanders in the north, Wallonia in the south, and the Brussels-Capital Region. Belgium is one of the six founding countries of the European Union and its capital. In 1830, the Belgian Revolution led to the separation of the Southern Provinces from the Netherlands and to the establishment of a Catholic and bourgeois, officially French-speaking and neutral, independent Belgium under a provisional government and a national congress. Since the installation of Leopold I as king on 21 July 1831, now celebrated as Belgium's National Day.