FC de Kampioenen

Brussels


This bright, dynamic mural features not a football club but a parade of characters based on a TV series that ran from 1990 to 2011. The show was turned into a comic strip by Hec Leemans in 1997.

Transportation

  • metro: Ste-Catherine

Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Brussels attractions

1. Argos

0.14 MILES

A not-for-profit gallery in a former banana warehouse, founded in 1989 to promote video art that engages with politics. In addition to changing temporary…

2. Église St-Jean-Baptiste au Béguinage

0.14 MILES

This soaring 1657 Flemish baroque masterpiece was designed by Luc Fayd’Herbe, a student of Rubens. It’s often cited as Belgium’s most beautiful church and…

3. Anspach Fountain

0.21 MILES

Surmounted by a tall granite tower topped by a bronze statue of St-Micheal, the fountain commemorates a former mayor.

5. Église Notre-Dame du Finistère

0.23 MILES

To escape the lacklustre '70s architecture, meditate awhile in this 18th-century church whose baroque interior features a remarkable 1758 altarpiece, its…

6. Tour Noire

0.28 MILES

Boxed in on three sides and incongruously dwarfed by the back of a Novotel Hotel, this tower is an ivy-draped remnant of Brussels’ original city wall.

7. Cubitus

0.28 MILES

In this mural a tetchy-looking Manneken Pis gazes up at his pediment, from which he has been displaced by a grinning, peeing bear.

8. Église Ste-Catherine

0.3 MILES

Église Ste-Catherine must be one of the only religious buildings that positively encourages folks to urinate on its walls (there’s a ‘pissoir’ on its…

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