The Keizerstraat, centuries ago called "Via Caesarea" after emperor Charles V., is a prestigious street where painter Peter Paul Rubens used to visit his brother-in-law Balthasar de Grootte, mayor Nicolaas Rockox (at nr.10 and 12) and painter Frans Snyders (at nr. 8).

ACCOMMODATION: This exclusive hotel has large comfortable rooms, suites, elegant salons and a romantic patio. The hotelsuites are provided with all the necessary comfort : telephone, telefax, television, stereo, safe, mini bar . Every single of the 10 rooms, bathrooms and suites are furnished individually.

HOTEL FACILITIES & SERVICES: Breakfast is heaven in itself, served at your room with a newspaper and a smile, or sit down at the terras for your beakfast buffet. Spread out for you on your personal table on the terras, are meats and cheeses, pastries, rolls, jam and fruit. Coffee, thea, the most delicious scrambled eggs to order are brought by a charming person who magically knows your name. Mornings can be pleasant too!

Royal Museum of Fine Arts houses the largest collection of Rubens in the world (there’s also the Rubens House) and you can see his Descent from the Cross over at Our Lady’s Cathedral. For restaurants try t’Fornius and t’Hofke; the Quinten Matsijs café dates from 1565, or there’s De Foyer in the Bourlaschouwburg Theatre. For shopaholics Dries Van Noten are at Het Mode Paleis; Raf Simons and Ann Demeulemeester at Louis - for chocaholics Del Rey best for praline chocolates (although the locals will tell you, fingers a-wagging, pralines and chocolates are two different things).