Shopping in the wonderful country of Belgium is a very interesting and exciting experience. The main place of concentration of department stores, shopping centers and shops of Brussels is the Rue Neuve Street. It is located in the north central part of the city. Here one can find branded stores of such famous international brands as: “Benetton”, “Zara”, «H&M” etc. Special attention deserves a large Department of the same name high-quality cosmetics, which is inexpensive, with a simple and stylish design. This shop will be especially useful if you forgot at home, for example, a comb or a toothbrush and you need to buy a cheap substitute for a week or two. If you do not want to spend a lot of time on shopping, you can quickly find everything in the shopping center City-2. The top floor of this shopping mall has a FNAC – musical, electronic and book hypermarket. There are often free concerts of touring groups. The schedule can be found at the store entrance.
In addition, Rue Neuve is known for the famous “Inno” — the oldest Belgian Department store, which presents about 600 famous brands of clothing, cosmetics and accessories from manufacturers of different price categories. In that case, if you are going to walk to the shops of Brussels in January or July, pay attention to the bright inscription “soldes” or “solden” — this means that the sale is in full swing!
Most of the stores, which are located on Rue Neuve belong to the category of middle and mass market. The main part of shops work from 9.30 to 18-19 PM. But on Friday it happens that they work up to 20 PM.