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In 2002, local authorities limited street prostitution to an area of the lower town known as the Triangle, consisting of the Rue Desandrouin, Rue du Moulin and Rue de la Fenderie. Subsequent regeneration of the lower town and construction of a shopping centre saw prostitution banned in the Triangle and moved to an area beyond the ring road.
The Solbosch campus of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), a French-speaking university, with about 20,000 students, is also situated on the Avenue Franklin Roosevelt. No. 52: Blomme House (1928), a modernist house designed by Adrien Blomme [ fr ] for his personal use (offices and apartments), whose entrance is flanked by two bas-reliefs ...
The Berlaymont building (European Commission), Rue de la Loi / Wetstraat 200. The street starts as a continuation of the Rue des Colonies / Koloniënstraat at the crossroads with the Rue Royale/Koningsstraat. Immediately to the south is Parc/Park metro station and Brussels Park. To the north is the Belgian Parliament building, the Palace of the ...
The Robert Schuman Roundabout is in the centre of Brussels' European Quarter.The major buildings next to it are the Berlaymont building (headquarters of the European Commission), the Justus Lipsius building (used to hold low-level meetings of the Council of the European Union and provide office space to the Council's Secretariat) and numerous other EU offices.
The Place du Luxembourg / Luxemburgplein, c. 1910. The Place du Luxembourg / Luxemburgplein was a central feature of the Leopold Quarter, a neighbourhood developed in the first few decades after the Belgian Revolution, and the most prestigious residential area in the capital for the bulk of the 19th century.
Bruxelles, ville d'Art et d'Histoire (in French). Vol. 20. Brussels: Centre d'information, de Documentation et d'Etude du Patrimoine. Gérard, Hervé (2023). Bruxelles et ses places (in French). Brussels: 180° éditions. ISBN 978-2-940721-32-0. Le Patrimoine monumental de la Belgique: Bruxelles (PDF) (in French). Vol. 1A: Pentagone A-D. Liège ...
The Sablon (French, pronounced ⓘ) or Zavel (Dutch, pronounced ⓘ) is a neighbourhood and hill in the historic upper town of Brussels, Belgium.At its heart are twin squares: the larger Grand Sablon or Grote Zavel ("Large Sablon") square in the north-west and the smaller Petit Sablon or Kleine Zavel ("Small Sablon") square and garden in the south-east, divided by the Church of Our Lady of ...
The building has 3 wings and 15 floors. It is located at 170, rue de la Loi/Wetstraat, in the City of Brussels, one of the 19 municipalities forming the Brussels-Capital Region. The postal code for the municipality is 1000, but the postal code for the European Commission is 1049.