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Wittamer & Co dates back to 1910, when Henri Wittamer opened his boulangerie with his wife Marie on the Place du Grand Sablon. [citation needed] The shop passed on to his son Henri II and his wife Yvonne. In the 1960s, his son, Henri III, and his sister Myriam took over the shop. Henri III had his training as maître chocolatier in Switzerland ...
The Grand-Place of Brussels is the location of the city's Town Hall, and thus its political centre. It also housed the largest marketplace in the city (hence its official names Grote Markt or Groote Markt, pronounced [ˌɣroːtə ˈmɑr(ə)kt] ⓘ; literally meaning "Big Market", in Dutch).
Choco-Story Brussels, formerly known as the Museum of Cocoa and Chocolate (French: Musée du cacao et du chocolat; Dutch: Museum van cacao en chocolade), is a privately owned museum in central Brussels, Belgium, dedicated to chocolate and cocoa products.
Vol. 1. Brussels: Touring Club Royal de Belgique. Graffart, André (1980). "Register van het schilders-, goudslagers- en glazenmakersambacht van Brussel, 1707–1794". Doorheen de Nationale Geschiedenis (in Dutch). Brussels: State Archives in Belgium. Heymans, Vincent (2011). Les maisons de la Grand-Place de Bruxelles (in French). Brussels: CFC ...
The Queen's Gallery (French: Galerie de la Reine, Dutch: Koninginnegalerij), to the south, leads to the Rue du Marché aux Herbes / Grasmarkt, near the Grand-Place/Grote Markt (Brussels' main square), [3] and on the other side of this street begins the Horta Gallery. Its best known shops are Delvaux leather goods and Neuhaus chocolatier. It ...
In 2013, the Galler chocolate factory was present in more than thirty countries and had its own network of franchised boutiques in Belgium and abroad. [3] The first boutique was opened in 1995 on the Grand-Place in Brussels and, in 2002, the company received the Innovation Award at the Franchise Fair of Brussels, [2] for the development of his "Chocolate-Tea" concept, tasting rooms of ...
The Grand-Place is the main attraction in the city centre and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1998. [213] The square is dominated by the 15th century Flamboyant Town Hall, the neo-Gothic Breadhouse and the Baroque guildhalls of the former Guilds of Brussels.
Godiva was founded in 1926 in Brussels, Belgium, by the Draps family, who opened their first shop in the Grand-Place under its present name in honour of the legend of Lady Godiva. [13] [14] The first shop outside Belgium was opened in Paris on the Rue Saint Honoré in 1958. In 1966, the company's products reached the United States, where they ...