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 Hasselt (Limburg) is an important commercial centre in Belgium
and it is a paradise for shoppers. The shopping streets are
pretty and dotted with colorful terraces and stylish shopping
arcades. Hasselt is known around the world for its extensive and
exclusive fashions, the Fashion Museum and the special Fashion
Circuit.
Hasselt is the gin City ‘par excellence’. The Borrelmanneke and
the National Jenever Museum have become the symbols of Belgium’s
gin capital.
 The history of the county of Loon is brought to life in the
Municipal Stellingwerff-Waerdenhof Museum, the Herkenrode abbey
and refuge. Art can be found all over Hasselt: in the cathedral
and the Virga Jesse Basilica, in the museums, the Beguinage and
the numerous art galleries, in the parks and the streets and on
the ‘Groene Boulevard’
 Hasselt is also the city with the biggest Japanese Garden in all
Europe; it is the city of the Grenslandhallen, Kinepolis,
Pukkelpop, the Genever Festival, delicious Hasselt Speculoos and
the - free – city buses.
Hasselt was founded in the 7th century on the Helbeek, a
tributary of the Demer. The name Hasselt came from ‘Hasaluth’,
which means hazel wood. In 1839 Hasselt became the capital of
the Belgian province of Limburg.
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