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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 ]
Brussels-Central railway station (French: Gare de Bruxelles-Central; Dutch: Station Brussel-Centraal) [a] is a railway and metro station in central Brussels, Belgium. It is the second busiest railway station in Belgium [ 1 ] and one of three principal railway stations in Brussels, together with Brussels-South and Brussels-North .
Guide illustré de Bruxelles (in French). Vol. 1. Brussels: Touring Club Royal de Belgique. Hennaut, Eric (2000). La Grand-Place de Bruxelles. Bruxelles, ville d'Art et d'Histoire (in French). Vol. 3. Brussels: Éditions de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale. Heymans, Vincent (2011). Les maisons de la Grand-Place de Bruxelles (in French ...
The station was opened on 14 October 1937 with the extension of the line from Porte de Montreuil to Mairie de Montreuil.. In 2019, the station was used by 4,954,717 passengers, making it the 85th busiest of the Métro network out of 302 stations.
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 ...
Gaîté (French pronunciation:) is a station on Line 13 of the Paris Métro in the 14th arrondissement.. The station is named after the nearby rue de la Gaîté, which was a country road connecting Clamart with the Barrière du Montparnasse, a gate in the Wall of the Farmers-General at the intersection of the Boulevard Edgar-Quinet and the rue du Montparnasse (the location of Edgar Quinet ...