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In Bruxelles the square par excellence
is “La Grand Place”, a contact
and meeting point in the centre of the
old city. This square, with no religious
building, suffered heavy devastations
by the french vanguards in 1695 but it
was quickly rebuilt respecting the ancient
architecture. Among the most suggestive
buildings that overlook the square we
remind the “Hotel De Ville”
(the Municipium) and “La Maison
Du Roi”, both Gothic style; the
second one houses the Museum of the City,
historical memory of Bruxelles. The elegant
and baroque Bramante’s dukes Palace
is sited next to other spectacular buildings
once seats of ancient local guilds. “La
Grand Place”, which is normally
suggestive, becomes absolutely extraordinary
when its surface is covered with thousand
of coloured begonias; this unusual event
happens during the feast of August, the
15th, every two years for five days.
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| Grand-Place: | |
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The main market in the
city’s heart with its most important
building as Hotel de Ville and La Maison
du Roi.
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| Place
Royale: | |
| The
royal square at the time of Luigi XVI
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| Place
des Martyrs: | |
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Eighteenth-century square, it has been
recently restored | | |
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| Place
Ste-Catherine: | |
| (Black
Tower)
A part of the ancient walls of Bruxelles
before the expansion happened around the
XII century. |  | | |
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| Place
des Palais: | |
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A square full of important monuments | | |
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| Place
Poelaert: | |
A
majestic justice palace sited in one of
the most important squares of the city. | | |
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| Place
du Congrès: | |
| (Colonne
du Congrès), Bruxelles
It has been built in 1959 for the proclamation
of the belgian constitution after the 1830
revolution. At its top there is the statue
of Leopolde II, at its feet two lions which
watch over the unknown warrior’s tomb. |  | | |
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| Place
de la Nation: | |
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(Palais de la Nation)
It is one of the power seat – the
Senate - planned by the architect Barnabé
Guimard in 1783. | | |
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