What's exactly the St Verheagen?
Theodore Verheagen was the founder of the university of Brussels in 1834 (20th November); so, each year, on the 20th November, students celebrate him with an huge parade in Brussels center.
Most student unions rent trucks for the occasion, which are decorated in accordance with the year's theme. Each truck has a large number of casks of beer inside (Kriek, Jupiler, other..) and some students serve beer to the others during all the day, with an all-you-can-drink payment scheme around 10 euros.
There is also musician in the street, a lot of animation, and of course a lot of drunk people.
The students first meet at the Sablon at the begin of the afternoon and after several hours, the trucks start to move towards the Brussel Stock exchange. The parade is finished around 8pm. So the trucks go back to the University where the painting board are burnt.
The St V is the occasion to see a lot of old friends, to drink a lot of beer and to spend a really nice afternoon.
See more information on the really well-done Wikipédia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_V
Find some picture of this Belgian event below (click on the image to get a neat result):
My sister, her boyfriend and Guillaume
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