Brussels-city

Communal territory

The town of Brussels is made up of:

historical center of the city, more or less delimited by the site of the old walls of the second enclosure, today consisted the boulevards of the small belt. The geometrical form of this part of the commune also makes it indicate under the name of Pentagone or of Cœur of Brussels ;
territories annexed or amalgamated during second half of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century:

in the south, in 1860, 123 hectares of the Forêt of Look after are annexed to make of it the Bois of Cambers, arranged in park “with English”, intended to become the walk of the aristocracy of the city. At the same time is created, to reach it, broad and prestigious avenue, the Avenue Louise, which today cut in two parts the commune of Ixelles;
in the east, in 1880, a parade ground of the army and the grounds around, located on the commune of Etterbeek, are attached to Brussels-city to create there the Parc of the Fiftieth anniversary, at the time of the commemoration of the jubilee of independence. One installs there museums and places of trade events. The districts located between the park and the downtown area, also annexed at that time, accommodate today the buildings of the European Union;
in north, in 1921, the old communes of Laeken, Neder-Over-Heembeek and Haren are amalgamated at Brussels-city.

The Pentagon

the District of the Center

It is in the middle of the district of the island Saint-Gery, formed by the Senne and on which would have been built a first keep towards 979, which one locates the origin of the city. Today, the district around the Markets Saint-Gery, old market hall, is one of the connected districts of the capital. The district of the center preserves some vestiges of the First enclosure of Brussels of the 13th century, which included the first wearing of Seine, the collegial Romance one, replaced later on by the Cathédrale Saint-Michel-and-Gudule, and the ducal castle of Coudenberg (royal District). In the center of this triangle are the Grand-Place of Brussels, the district of the Îlot crowned (which draw its name from its resistance to the projects of demolition), itself crossed by the royal Galeries Saint-Hubert, and the district of the Stock Exchange, built with the site of an old convent whose vestiges were put at the day.

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