Brussels Stock Exchange

Set up with Brussels on the Boulevard Anspach between 1868 and 1873 according to the plans of the architect Leon-Pierre Suys, the Stock Exchange (in Dutch: of Beurs ) falls under the stabilization program and of embellishment of the city, Voûtement of the Seine and creation of the boulevards of the center. This imposing building at the time meets the essential need create a center where to then treat the commercial businesses in full expansion. This monument which combines size and imagination occupies the site of the old market to the butter, itself established on the remainders of old the convent of Récollets. The eclectic building interferes the loans with the style Néorenaissance and Second empire in an expansion with ornaments and sculpture due to famous artists of which Auguste Rodin.

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