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In the United States, an outdoor swap meet is the equivalent of a flea market. However, an indoor swap meet is the equivalent of a bazaar, a permanent, indoor shopping center open during normal retail hours, with fixed booths or storefronts for the vendors. [10] [11] [12] Different English-speaking countries use various names for flea markets.
The station was built between 1854 and 1855 by the Grande Compagnie de Luxembourg, as part of the Brussels-Luxembourg railway line it was constructing. [1] It was to service the new Leopold Quarter, hence its original name of Leopold Quarter railway station (French: Gare du Quartier Léopold, Dutch: Station Leopoldswijk).
By the end of the 11th century, an open-air marketplace was set up on a dried-up marsh near the fort that was surrounded by sandbanks. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] A document from 1174 mentions this lower market (Latin: forum inferius ) not far from the port (Latin: portus ) on the Senne. [ 23 ]
The original railway line through the station site ran between Brussels-Luxembourg and Brussels-North and was opened on 23 October 1856, though no station was provided. In about 1865, the Grande Compagnie du Luxembourg received subsidies from the state to open stations on the line, by that point surrounded by rapid housing development, and opened a halt called Bruxelles (Rue de la Loi), on a ...
The Brussels-Capital Region is bilingual; hence, both the French and Dutch names of the station— Bruxelles-Nord and Brussel-Noord —are official. Outside Belgium, this often leads to the use of combined shorthands; for example in the Thomas Cook European Rail Timetable, Brussels-North is designated as Brussels Nord / Noord; NS (Dutch Railways) announce the station as Brussel Noord/Nord.
The museum was founded on 1 September 1801 by Napoleon [1] [2] and opened in 1803 as the Museum of Fine Arts of Brussels (French: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Dutch: Museum voor Schone Kunsten van Brussel), occupying fourteen rooms of the former Palace of Charles of Lorraine, known as the "Old Court".
KANAL - Centre Pompidou is a museum for modern and contemporary art located in Brussels, Belgium, near the Brussels–Charleroi Canal, in the former Citroën Garage buildings. [3] The opening is scheduled for 2026. [4] [5] During the renovations, the museum remains open at its temporary location K1, at 1, avenue du Port / Havenlaan. [6]
The station opened 20 January 1912 with the inauguration of the second branch of Line B of the Nord-Sud Company from La Fourche to Porte de Clichy. On 27 March 1931, line B became line 13 following the absorption of the Nord-Sud Company on 1 January 1930 by its competitor, the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (known as the CMP).