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The museum is located at 27, rue Ransfort / Ransfortstraat in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, on the site of the former foundry of the Compagnie des Bronzes de Bruxelles (1854–1979), close to the Brussels–Charleroi Canal. This site is served by Comte de Flandre/Graaf van Vlaanderen metro station on line 5 of the Brussels Metro. [3]
The 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region [1] [2] are the political subdivisions of Belgium's central region. [3] The government of each municipality is responsible for the handling of local level duties, such as law enforcement and the upkeep of schools and roads within its borders. [4]
The greatest increase in the number of HLMs came in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when many planned communities, or ZUP (zones à urbaniser en priorité: "priority urbanisation zones") were constructed. They were built mostly in the suburbs of Paris. A total of 195 ZUP were created, producing over two million new, mostly HLM, residences.
The first walls of Brussels (French: première enceinte, Dutch: eerste stadsomwalling) were a series of fortifications erected around Brussels in the early 13th century. The city quickly outgrew them, and starting in 1356, a second, larger set of walls was built to better enclose and defend the city.
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.
Primevères (poetry), Jean d'Osta.; Le livre du bonheur (novel), Jean d'Osta, 1927.; Encyclopédie du Kitsch, Jean d'Osta, Pierre De Meyer Editeur, Brussels, 1972.; Jef Kazak, professeur de belles manières (disque LP 33 tours), sketches bruxellois par Jean d'Osta, Bruxelles : Daron-Bruyninckx Brussels, 1972, Decca LPD 224-X 345 & Omega International 333.114-X.
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 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 ...