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The busy streets between the Grand-Place and the Gare du Nord are not especially enticing, though rue des Bouchers does heave with restaurants and rue Neuve possesses many of the city's biggest shops and stores. The prime architectural sight hereabouts is the place des Martyrs , a handsome square built by the Austrian Habsburgs in their pomp, whilst the most interesting attraction is the Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinee - the Belgian Comic Strip Centre. Belgian artists and writers produce the best comics in the world - or so they would argue - and the centre samples their work, beginning with the most famous comic strip character of the lot, Tintin, who first appeared as long ago as 1929.
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