The history, art, architecture, cuisine, religiosity, governance, intellectual pursuits, and commerce of Belgium will be explored with photographs of the four main cities of that country: Bruges, Brussels, Ghent, and Antwerp. Those photographs will draw on the museums, churches, train stations, canals, restaurants, opera houses, buildings, city plans, public events, and geography of the region to convey a sense of its culture(s) and civic organization.