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Performers in historic costumes take part in a procession during the annual medieval festival, the Ommegang, in Brussels' Grand Place July 5. The Ommegang pageant is a re-enactment of celebrations marking the historical entry of Charles the Fifth, his son Don Philip, infant of Spain and Duke of Brabant, and his sisters, Eleanor of Austria, Queen of France and Mary of Hungary into Brussels in 1549.

Ommegang pageant in Brussels celebrates history of Belgium

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