De Brouckère Square

Place De Brouckère (French)
De Brouckèreplein (Dutch)

Place de Brouckère in Brussels
Location	City of Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Coordinates	50°51′05″N 04°21′09″E / 50.85139°N 4.35250°E / 50.85139; 4.35250Coordinates: 50°51′05″N 04°21′09″E / 50.85139°N 4.35250°E / 50.85139; 4.35250

De Brouckère Square (French: Place De Brouckère, Dutch: De Brouckèreplein) is a major square located in the city centre of Brussels, Belgium. It is named in honour of Charles de Brouckère, a former mayor of Brussels and professor at the Free University of Brussels, who played a great political role during the Belgian Revolution of 1830.^[1] The square took the place of the Augustinian Church, which was demolished in 1893.^[2]

De Brouckère Square is dominated by fin de siècle buildings, but modern colossi have also risen on its southern side since the 1970s. The area around the square is characterised by the presence of theatres, a large cinema, hotels and restaurants, as well as some of the most important entertainment venues and shopping streets in the city.

Place de Brouckère, late 19th century

Places of interest

De Brouckère Square is home to the Hotel Metropole (1895), where was held the first Solvay Conference on Physics and on Chemistry, in the autumn of 1911,^[3] and the former Eldorado cinema, now called UGC De Brouckère. On the eastern side of the square are two covered shopping galleries: the Anspach Center and the Munt Center.

Accessibility

This square is located in the perspective of Boulevard Emile Jacqmain/Emile Jacqmainlaan and Boulevard Adolphe Max/Adolphe Maxlaan to the north, forming a "Y" crossroad, and Boulevard Anspach to the south.

It is served by the metro station De Brouckère on lines 1 and 5 of the Brussels metro.

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