HEYSEL EXHIBITION PARK
The Heysel Exhibition Park is the place in the north of the centre of Brussels, Belgium, where the World's Fair of 1935 and 1958 (the Expo '58) took place.
The Atomium, built for the World's Fair of 1958, is the most impressive monument in the Heysel Park. The Centenary Palace (Dutch: Eeuwfeestpaleis, French: Palais du Centenaire) is one of the remaining buildings of the World's Fair of 1935. Currently it's still being used for trade fairs.
The Heysel Park is also the location of the Heysel Stadium, built in 1930. After the Heysel Stadium disaster it was rebuilt and renamed to King Baudouin Stadium.
Other interesting places on the Heysel are a large movie theatre (Kinepolis), a park which hosts miniature models of famous European buildings (Mini-Europe), a subtropical water park (Océade) and a planetarium.
 MINI-EUROPE BRUSSELS
Mini-Europe is a part of Heysel in Brussels, Belgium that contains replicas of famous buildings from countries in the European Union, presented at a scale of 1 to 25. The buildings on display are famed for their exquisite detail, which took over Euro 75,000 per model to reproduce.
In 1987, several art historians selected over 100 European buildings of cultural importance; it was from this list that many of the models at Mini-Europe come. On-site work to take detailed photographs of the buildings cost over Euro 200,000, and sometimes it took multiple trips to garner enough details to make and appropriate 1:25 scale model.
To build the models, 55 workshops from 9 member states collaborated to construct pre-models out of a variety of materials. These pre-models were then used to create molds, which led to the final model, cast from epoxy or polyester. Finally, the models were painted. All told, this process was extremely labor-intensive, requiring, for example, over 24,000 hours for the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.
HEYSEL STADIUM / KING BAUDOUIN STADIUM
The Heysel Stadium was a sports ground in north-west Brussels, Belgium. It was built in 1930. It hosted European Cup finals in 1958, 1966, 1974, and 1985 and Cup Winners' Cup finals in 1964, 1976, and 1980. The highest attendance at a European game was over 66,000 in 1958. Following the disaster of May 29, 1985 the ground was only used for athletics.
A decade after the disaster the ground was rebuilt and renamed at a cost of BEF 1,500 million (around $50 million in 1995). As the Koning Boudewijnstadion - Stade Roi Baudouin (English King Baudouin Stadium) it combined the football ground with a running track and facilities for field events. It was re-opened in August 1995 as the stadium for the national team and is the largest stadium in Belgium; it can seat 50,000 spectators. It hosted the opening ceremony for Euro 2000.
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