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The Place Royale was built on the former site of the Place des Bailles / Baliënplein, the main market square adjacent to the former Castle and then Palace of Coudenberg, [3] [5] which was the residence (and seat of power) of the counts, dukes, archdukes, kings, emperors or governors who, from the 12th century to the 18th century, exerted their sovereignty over the Duchy of Brabant and later ...
Bruxelles, Place Royale, [Brussels, Belgium] Description Print shows the Place Royale (Royal Square) with a statue of Godfrey de Bouillon and the Church of St. Jacques-sur-Coudenberg.
The Royal Palace in Brussels, Peter Brueghel the Younger and Sebastian Vrancx, c. 1627. The Palace of Coudenberg (French: Palais du Coudenberg; Dutch: Koudenbergpaleis) was a royal residence situated on the Coudenberg or Koudenberg (listen ⓘ; Dutch for "Cold Hill"), a small hill in what is today the Royal Quarter of Brussels, Belgium.
It is limited to the south by the Place Royale/Koningsplein in the city centre and to the north by the Place de la Reine / Koninginplein in Schaerbeek. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Several places of interest lie along the Rue Royale, for instance the BELvue Museum , Brussels Park , the Congress Column , the Hotel Astoria , the Botanical Garden of Brussels ...
Originally designed for Brussels Park, then for the Place Royale/Koningsplein, it had been ordered to the sculptor Louis Jehotte, also author of a statue of Charlemagne in Liège . Nowadays, the statue is relegated to the side of the square, above the technical block of the Museum of Modern Art. [3]
Manneken Pis, original bronze statue by Jérôme Duquesnoy (I), 1619. The one at the junction of the Rue de l'Étuve / Stoofstraat and the Rue du Chêne / Eikstraat is a replica from 1965. Sculpture in Brussels has been created since the Middle Ages to the present day. [ 1 ]
The Royal Palace of Brussels (French: Palais royal de Bruxelles [palɛ ʁwajal də bʁysɛl]; Dutch: Koninklijk Paleis van Brussel [ˈkoːnɪŋklək paːˈlɛis fɑm ˈbrʏsəl]; [a] German: Königlicher Palast von Brüssel [ˈkøːnɪklɪçɐ paˈlast fɔn ˈbʁʏsl̩]) is the official palace of the King and Queen of the Belgians in the centre of the nation's capital, Brussels.
The Place Royale/Koningsplein and its surrounding buildings bear witness to Belgium's independence. It was there that the enthronement ceremony of Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, King of the Belgians, took place on 21 July 1831, fifty years after its construction. The building then became a hotel for travellers for over a century, before being ...