Famous for its riotous "Lumeçon" festival, Mons is much more than dragon-slaying and clanging battle armor. As a 2015 European Capital of Culture, the Belgian city is about to turn on its bountiful ...

"Verlaine, Cell 252 - Poetic Turbulences" (October 17, 2015 till January 24, 2016) explores the star-crossed romance between two of France's greatest poets: Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine. In a ...

Meet Mons, Belgium – a city of less than 100,000 people, about an hour’s train ride south of Brussels in the French-speaking part of Belgium known as Wallonia. Perhaps not well known as a travel ...

In the winter of 1879, Vincent van Gogh, aged 25 and filled with evangelical zeal, took up a missionary post in a coal- mining village on the outskirts of Mons in Belgium. His initial stay was short ...

Mons, a city in Belgium that's been designated the "European Capital of Culture" for 2015, saw its year in the spotlight get off to a rocky start after one of its marquee commissions collapsed. “With ...

‘Make love not war,’ reads the sign outside Mons’ smart new Cultural Centre, a shiny slab of glass and steel amid the mottled brick buildings of the Old Town. This slogan could double as a motto for ...

Mons’ year of celebrations to mark its status as joint Capital of Culture (with Pilsen in the Czech Republic) involves 300 events, ranging from a major Van Gogh exhibition to a maze of 8,000 ...