7 Best Bookshops in Brussels
Brussels, the capital city of Belgium, has warm, welcoming and unique bookshops. There are large, small, generalist and even specialist bookshops to visit for your favorite titles. This is a city full of bookshops and has a real passion for literature. A number of the very popular bookshops that are among the top best in Brussels are French-language bookshops. Here’s a list of 7 best bookshops in Brussels.
Passa Porta Bookshop
Passa Porta Bookshop is one of the leading bookshops in Brussels with book lovers patronizing it from across the world. It is the best multilingual bookshop in the capital. Housed in Passa Porta (the international house of literature in Brussels) the bookstore offers, under its beautiful well of light, a quality selection of novels, poems, essays and books for children. You will also find staff members who will assist you to locate your favourite books waiting for you in the bookstore when you visit.
Replica Bookshop
Replica is noted for having the most charming selection of Dutch and English books. Located behind Tour & Taxis, this bookstore offers nice environment where you can sit back and relax, with or without a book. You can order a flat white and a fresh cookie or cinnamon roll, grab a seat and admire the book covers that line the walls. You will receive so much knowledge and experience within just a few square metres as you visit the bookshop.
Tropismes
Tropismes is located in the Royal Saint-Hubert galleries and has exceptional beauty that delights visitors. The bookshop is housed in a historical setting, with gigantic mirrors and a magnificent mezzanine. This intriguing bookshop focuses on human sciences, great classics and fine arts. It also offers a rich selection for youths and comics for youngsters. Make this bookstore your destination any time you want good books.
Le Wolf
Le Wolf is best described as the temple of children’s literature and this why parents love the bookstore. It is a bookshop entirely designed with youngsters in mind. In its original and luminous setting, children choose their future favourite stories. There also Freddy the sleeping wolf upstairs to spice up children’s time at the bookstore. Le Wolf also organises courses, workshops and storytelling readings. This is a highly recommended destination for book lovers across the world..
Galerie Bortier
Galerie Bortier is one of the best places for bookshop owners and second-hand booksellers. With its magnificent glass roof, this covered passage houses the Pierre Coumans bookshop, with its old books and works that are full of soul. A short detour to the Crypt Tonique bookshop will give any book lover an insight into the most advanced aspects of images (literary, mental or plastic). This is the ideal place to spend hours searching for that rare gem.
Bozar Bookshop by Walther König
Bozar appointed bookstore Walther Walther König as the official Bozar Bookshop of the Centre for Fine Arts. Here you will find all the Bozar exhibition catalogues, a wide selection of international books on art, architecture, photography and design, design objects and children books and toys. With branches in major cities such as Amsterdam, Berlin, Vienna, Paris and Milan, Walther König is Europe’s leading art bookstore and is one of the most respected art book publishing houses in the world. . BOZAR Bookshop fits perfectly with the Art Deco architecture that Victor Horta designed for this Palace of Fine Arts. Walther König bookshop is also located in Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Nationalgalerie in Berlin and the Stedelijke Museum in Amsterdam.
