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A national palace of the French Republic, blurred on Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Bing Maps. 48°51′42″N 2°18′00″E / 48.86164166666667°N 2.300086111111111°E / 48.86164166666667; 2.300086111111111
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After years of fruitless negotiations, the City of Brussels finally annexed the narrow band of land needed for the avenue, in addition to the Bois de la Cambre itself, in April 1864. [11] [12] [9] That decision accounts for the unusual shape of today's City of Brussels and for the separation of Ixelles into two separate areas.
Brussels is located between the largest urban centres. Brussels is located in one of the most urbanised regions of Europe, between Paris, London, the Rhine-Ruhr (Germany), and the Randstad (Netherlands). The Brussels-Capital Region has a population of around 1.2 million and has witnessed, in recent years, a remarkable increase in its population.
The area comprising the Place Eugène Flagey was covered by the Ixelles Ponds until 1860 when one of the original ponds was drained as part of a new urban design. The square was originally known as the Place Sainte-Croix / Heilig-Kruisplein ("Holy Cross' Square") after the Hospice de la Sainte-Croix, a hospice located at the bottom of the current Rue de Vergnies / De Vergniesstraat. [3]
The Rue Belliard or Belliardstraat is a major street in the European Quarter of Brussels, Belgium, running parallel to the Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat.Both are one-way streets; where traffic in the Rue de la Loi runs in the western direction towards Brussels' city centre, the Rue Belliard runs in the eastern direction, away from the city centre.
The Robert Schuman Roundabout is in the centre of Brussels' European Quarter.The major buildings next to it are the Berlaymont building (headquarters of the European Commission), the Justus Lipsius building (used to hold low-level meetings of the Council of the European Union and provide office space to the Council's Secretariat) and numerous other EU offices.