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La Fonderie, Brussels Museum of Industry and Labour [1] (French: La Fonderie, Musée bruxellois des industries et du travail; Dutch: La Fonderie, Brussels museum voor industrie en arbeid) is a museum of industrial history in Brussels, Belgium. It collects objects, documents and oral history on the city's industrial past and visualises the ...
The Brussels Parliament building (French: Parlement de Bruxelles; Dutch: Parlement van Brussel) is a neoclassical building in Brussels, Belgium, housing the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region. [1] The building complex is located at 69, rue du Lombard / Lombardstraat, extending to the Rue du Chêne / Eikstraat. It largely dates from the ...
On 3 December 2001, the Assemblée de la Commission communautaire française or ACCF (Assembly of the French Community Commission) informally changed its name to Parlement francophone bruxellois (French-speaking Brussels Parliament). The Parliament is currently presided by Christos Doulkeridis.
To the south-east is a strip of land along the Avenue Louise/Louizalaan that, in addition to the Bois de la Cambre/Ter Kamerenbos, was annexed from Ixelles in 1864. Part of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)'s Solbosch campus is also part of the City of Brussels, partially accounting for the bulge in the south-eastern end.
The Vauxhall of Brussels (French: Vauxhall de Bruxelles; Dutch: Vauxhall van Brussel), otherwise known as the Waux-Hall, is a historic performance hall in Brussels Park in Brussels, Belgium. It is named after the pleasure gardens of Vauxhall in London , which only became known to the inhabitants of Brussels in 1761, when a ballet entitled Le ...
The government of the Brussels-Capital Region (French: Gouvernement de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale [ɡuvɛʁnəmɑ̃ də la ʁeʒjɔ̃ də bʁysɛl kapital]; Dutch: Brusselse Hoofdstedelijke Regering [ˈbrʏsəlsə ˌɦoːftˈsteːdələkə rəˈɣeːrɪŋ]) is the political administration of the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium.
The Seven Noble Houses of Brussels (also called the Seven Lineages or Seven Patrician Families of Brussels; French: Sept lignages de Bruxelles; Dutch: Zeven geslachten van Brussel; Latin: Septem nobiles familiae Bruxellarum) were the seven families or "lineages" whose descendants formed the patrician class and urban aristocracy of the city of Brussels.
The Parlement francophone bruxellois and the Council of the Flemish Community Commission together form the United Assembly of the Common Community Commission. The Community Commissions are to a certain extent responsible for Community competencies within the Brussels-Capital Region.