European art beyond museum walls  Rick Steves  9:30 AM EDT,
September 30, 2013   Europeans love to dress up the settings of
everyday life, from their piazzas to their back lanes -- and
they've been doing it for centuries. Climbing the Acropolis,
communing with the druids at Stonehenge, strolling the Croatian
shore in the shadow of Emperor Diocletian's palace in Split,
tracing the intricate carvings on Trajan's Column in Rome -- the
remnants of Europe's distant past are everywhere you look.  But
it's not just that these historical remnants still exist that
matters. What makes Europe so engaging is the way its citizens
actively interact with their age-old surroundings. Take
Brussels' Grand Place, perhaps the grandest square in Europe.
Sitting at the heart of the city, it's ringed by splendid
medieval guild halls. Any time of day, there's something going
on: concerts, flower markets, sound-and-light shows, and endless
people-watching. Every other year, florists turn the square into
a 19,000-square-foot tapestry