Designed by engineer Andre Waterkeyn and architects André and Jean Polak, the Atomium is a huge model of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times. The purpose of the Atomium was to show that ...
Mini-Europe sits at the foot of the Atomium, in the commune of Laeken. You can access it via metro line 6, bus 83 or tram 7 to Heysel, a five-minute walk away. It's also possible to buy discounted ...
The most popular destination in this area is the Atomium, a landmark building modeled after an iron molecule, whose permanent exhibition retraces the history of the 1958 Brussels World's Fair ...