| European quarter | |
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| Information | |
| Country | .svg/20px-Flag_of_Belgium_(civil).svg.png){kind=small} Belgium |
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| City | Brussels |
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 50 ° 50 ′ 35 ″ N 4 ° 22 ′ 55 ″ E | |
the European quarter is a district of Brussels.
Understand
Rue de la Loi, an emblematic name, is the artery where the main European institutions are located, alongside the most important Belgian ministries, as well as the Belgian Parliament, which occupies the oldest part of the site which dates back to the 18th century. In Brussels, when we say rue de la Loi we mean the area forming a triangle between the centuries-old Brussels park, the Cinquantenaire park and the Leopold park, both from the 19th century. The European institutions of the Commission and the Council of Ministers are located in the modern part of rue de la Loi, near the underground stations of the Schuman metro station and the railway, at the Schuman roundabout. The European Parliament is located not far away, on the edge of Leopold Park, near the Bruxelles-Luxembourg train station and the Place du Luxembourg.
This area is historically residential, but it lost this function as institutions settled there. Historic and residential buildings have been replaced by modern offices, with a few exceptions. These buildings were built, at the beginning, without a large overall plan and without government control, but by speculation from the private sector investing in spaces that would never have been possible without it. What, moreover, proved useful to fill the time between the beginnings of Europe in Brussels and the official takeover by Belgium of the process of their installation. After the considerable investment of Berlaymont and its transformation, the Belgian government began to invest in the infrastructure of the district, stressing that the uncertain development of the beginnings was over. Since the end of the 20th century, architectural competitions have been organized with a view to homogenizing the rue de la Loi district and its monumental development planned according to the plan of the architect Christian de Portzamparc born from the suites of the location of the Just Lipse Council building opposite the Berlaymont, seat of the commission, as well as a master plan.
To go
By train
- 1 Brussels-Luxembourg station –
free. (FreeWifi-NmbsSncb) Line 161 station Schaerbeek To Namur. - 2 Brussels-Schuman Station – free. (FreeWifi-NmbsSncb)
Station of line 161 from Schaarbeek to Namur.
free. (FreeWifi-NmbsSncb) Line 161 station 
Station of line 161 from Schaarbeek to Namur.By public transport
All lines of the Brussels metro serve the district. The stations 3 Art-law , 4 Maelbeek and Schuman metro lines 1 and 5 as well as Art-law and 5 throne for lines 2 and 6.
Line 12Brussels City - Luxembourg ↔ Brussels Airport directly connects the district to the Brussels-National airport.
To see
European quarter
- 1 The Berlaymont (Schuman metro) – Iconic headquarters of the European Commission and neighboring buildings of the Council of European Ministers.
- 2 European Parliament (Trône metro and bus connection)
- Statue of europe ("Unity in Peace") Van Maerlant Street
- 3 Leopold Park – at the heart of the European institutions in which is located the prestigious Lycée Émile Jacqmain and the Solvay library (named after the scholar and patron), an architectural masterpiece in Art Nouveau style whose interior, restored in the original style, cannot be visited but reserved for congresses of learned societies, such as that of 1932 which saw Einstein and the main scientific physicists of the time, such as Langevin, all gathered together for the only time.
- 4 Natural history museum (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences) – considerable collections including, in particular, the prehistoric section with its dinosaur skeletons including a herd of iguanodons unique in the world by its size.
Fiftieth anniversary
- 5 Cinquantenaire Park – The park was created to celebrate the 50 years of Belgian independence in 1830. The park houses all the royal museums.
- 6 Royal Museums of Art and History
- 7 Royal Museum of the Army and Military History (train: Schuman station; metro: Mérode or Schuman; tram / bus: 22, 27, 80, 81.) – With its armor, its parts, weapons and international uniforms from all eras, its captivating reconstruction of the trenches and the war atmosphere in occupied Belgium with the evocation of the resistance in 1940-45, its collection of tanks of assault and its aviation hall presenting devices from all eras, from those of the beginnings of the aerial age to the most recent, and even a "caravel" suspended above the whole.
- 8 Automobile museum
- 9 Triumphal arch – all these museums extend in a park around a triumphal arch with three arches due to the French architect Giraud and surmounted by a remarkable quadriga by the Belgian sculptor Vinçotte commemorating the victorious Belgian revolution of 1830. This monument was found so beautiful by the Chinese that they erected an imitation of it in the suburbs of Nanchang, capital of Jiangxi province from where the "Great March" started in 1927.
Do
To buy
Eat
Have a drink / Go out
- 1 The Hairy Canary rue Archimède, 12, 1040 Brussels – typical Irish pub.
Housing
- 1 New Hotel Charlemagne 25/27 Boulevard Charlemagne 1000 Brussels,
32 2 230 21 35, fax : 32 2 230 25 10
