The party will start on Sunday in the Marolles district with a national ball organized from 7:00 p.m. This large popular and festive ball, organized since 2003, promises to make the whole place of the ball game dance, to the sound of DJ Daddy K in particular. In the same place the next day, the national restaurant will take up residence, from 5 to 9:00 p.m., with fries or vegetable dumplings tomato sauce on the menu. Nearly 2,000 meals will be served, including 450 at a symbolic price for the most precarious. No meal can be ordered the same evening, but that the least providents are not discouraged, the surrounding bars and friederies will be well opened. Last year, five to six thousand people were present for the atmosphere, and in particular for the giant karaoke, specify the organizers.
July 21
On D -Day, at 10:00 am, the Te Deum will be celebrated in the presence of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde in the cathedral of Saints Michel and Gudule. The king’s speech will be broadcast at 1:00 p.m. before the sovereign and other members of the royal family attend the activities provided for in the palace at the end of the afternoon.
At 10:00 am also starts the party at the park, which will go far beyond the only decor of the Royal Park since entertainment is also planned Place Royale, rue de la Régence, Place du Grand Sablon and Place Poelaert.
The defense will install its village Place Royale and the police will also make Poelaert. The Sablon will welcome firefighters and civil protection for one or the other demonstration. On the other side of the Royal Park, the Federal Parliament will open its doors to the general public from 11 to 7:00 p.m. The entrance will be done by the street of the law.
Military and civil parade
It is on Place des Palais that the military and civil parade will start at 4:00 p.m.. This place will remain prohibited for traffic from Saturday morning to Tuesday around 6 p.m. in order to set up the stands and dismantle them after the event. The public who will attend this parade will have the opportunity to see several generations of defense vehicles parade. As part of the Liberation’s 80th anniversary, copies of the Second World War will be presented. Alongside these ancestors, a griffin, a 25 -ton shield fresh out of the Mol Cy factory in Staden (West Flanders), will also be of the different police units.
Due to the work at the Schuman roundabout, the parade will not take the street of the law this year, the police said in a statement. “”Military troops will be reviewed by King Boulevard du Jardin Botanique and rue Royale, where there is generally more space than around Place des Palais.“
