Square · Brussels, Belgium

Grand-Place

Rebuilt in five years after a French bombardment flattened it in 1695, which is why a medieval square is uniformly late baroque.

Grand-Place is in Brussels, and this is Brussels — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 590 km across and 210 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. The full map →

Give it 1 hour · Open year-round · 50.847°N, 4.352°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

Everything is within ninety minutes by train and the network is dense and cheap. All of Belgium →

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Brussels · Brussels & Wallonia · Belgium

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The record

What this atlas holds about Grand-Place, and nothing it does not.

Kind: Square
Give it: 1 hour
Season: Open year-round
Where: 50.847°N, 4.352°E
In: Brussels