Tintin / Hergé : your trail
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On your way

1 Hotel Palace
In The 7 Crystal Balls, the taxi that takes Marc Charlet (one of the explorers of the Sanders-Hardmuth expedition) to Tintin passes in front of the Palace hotel. The façade can be seen on page 20, box b2.

2 Belgian Centre for Comic Strip Art:
An essential place to stop on the trail,
with the bust of Tintin at the foot of the
staircase that leads to the exhibition rooms and the brand new area dedicated to Hergé and his work.

3 La Monnaie:
The 7 Crystal Balls features the interior decor of the Music Hall Palace (page 16,b1) and an allusion to the opera house in the recital of Bianca Castafiore. Close by: place des Martyrs, comic strip animation every Saturday in summer. ‘Objectif Bulles’ (destination speech balloons) and the fine Brüsel bookshop-gallery (allusion to François Schuiten), boulevard Anspach.

4 Galeries Saint-Hubert
In the Galerie du Roi, there’s the Théâtre Royal des Galeries. It is in this theatre that, in 1941, the premier of Tintin in the Indies or the Mystery of the Blue Diamond (a play that revived the characters created by Hergé, in a brand new story) were performed. And it is in front of this same theatre that the famous cartoonist made the acquaintance of another great gentleman of comic strip: Edgar-P. Jacobs, the father of Blake and Mortimer.
5 Boutique Tintin:
Such a trail is obviously inconceivable
without dropping in at the famous Tintin
shop, particularly since, just a few yards
farther along, you come to Brussels’
Grand-Place…

6 Tintin fresco:
Taken from a simple block from "The Calculus Affair", the new Tintin fresco lights up the street that’s home to the famous Manneken-Pis.

7 La Fleur en papier doré:
A Dadaist café, whose regulars included René Magritte, E.L.T. Mesens, Hugo Claus, Jean Dubuffet, Pierre Alechinsky and… Hergé.

8 ‘Quick and Flupke’ fresco
The gags of these two little rascals, much more than in Tintin, reveal clear traces of Hergé’s youth in Brussels.

9 Flea Market:
All the atmosphere and setting of this picturesque market features on the first few pages of the album ‘The Secret of the Unicorn’.

10 Royal Palace:
The model that served as the representation of the palace of King Muskar XII, King of Syldavia.

 Hergé -Moulinsart 2007