Tuesday, I took a stroll through the Parc du Cinquantenaire, a beautiful park located just a couple blocks from my place. This park used to be a military performance/parading spot, and after that was moved to Etterbeek (somewhere else around Brussels), this became the grounds to commemorate 50 years of Belgium's independance. Let's see...they gained independance in 1831, and so the 50 year anniversary must have been 1881. Anyway, they went ahead and got a fancy architect to build those fancy arches and now the structure houses a war museum and an art museum.