Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Anderlecht, Belgium

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Number of sights 29 sights
Distance 7 km
Ascend 156 m
Descend 137 m

Experience Anderlecht in Belgium in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Individual Sights in Anderlecht

Sight 1: Museum of the Gueuze

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Museum of the GueuzeBernt Rostad from Oslo, Norway / CC BY 2.0

The Brussels Museum of the Geuze is a museum in Anderlecht, Belgium.

Wikipedia: Brussels Museum van de Geuze (NL), Website

245 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 2: Masjid Ar-Ridha

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The Rida Mosque is a Shiite mosque in Anderlecht, located at 33 Dokter De Meersmanstraat. He is named after Imam Ali ar-Rida.

Wikipedia: Rida-moskee (NL)

853 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 3: François Anneessens - Frans Anneessens

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The monument to François Anneessens is an eclectic statue erected in memory of François Anneessens, doyen of the profession of the Four Crowned Ones executed in public on the Grand-Place in Brussels in 1719 at the time of the Austrian Netherlands.

Wikipedia: Monument à François Anneessens (FR)

355 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 4: Église Notre-Dame de Bon Secours - Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Goede Bijstandkerk

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The Church of Notre-Dame de Bon Secours, located at the corner of Rue du Marché au Charbon and Rue du Jardin des Olives, in the centre of the city of Brussels, is a religious building dating from the 17th century. It is a Catholic parish church in the district near the Brussels City Hall.

Wikipedia: Église Notre-Dame de Bon Secours de Bruxelles (FR)

127 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Madame Chapeau

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Madame Chapeau is a statue, inspired by the character Amélie Van Beneden from the 1938 play Bossemans and Coppenolle. The statue was created by the Belgian artist Tom Frantzen. The artwork is located on the corner of Rue du Midi and Rue Mussen in Brussels.

Wikipedia: Madame Chapeau (NL)

85 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Hôtel de Roest d'Alkemade

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The Hotel de Roest d'Alkemade is a monumental building on the Lievevrouwbroersstraat in Brussels. The late Baroque-style mansion dates from the period after the bombing of Brussels by Villeroy (1695) and was built around 1715. The façade is 23 meters high. The name refers to the noble family De Roest d'Alkemade. The building housed government departments, a curtain shop, an atheneum, a postcard publisher and a dance school. Since June 25, 1992, the building has been a protected monument. The Cercle des Voyageurs is located in the building.

Wikipedia: Hotel de Roest d'Alkemade (NL), Heritage Website

104 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Choco Story Brussels

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Choco-Story Brussels, formerly known as the Museum of Cocoa and Chocolate, is a privately owned museum in Brussels, Belgium, established in 1998 at the initiative of Gabrielle Draps, the wife of the famous Belgian chocolate artisan Joseph "Jo" Draps, founder of Godiva Chocolatier. The museum provides demonstrations and tastings, and visitors can book a workshop to make chocolate bars and lollipops.

Wikipedia: Choco-Story Brussels (EN), Website

75 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Manneken Pis

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Manneken Pis is a landmark 55.5 cm (21.9 in) bronze fountain sculpture in central Brussels, Belgium, depicting a puer mingens; a naked little boy urinating into the fountain's basin. Though its existence is attested as early as the mid-15th century, Manneken Pis was redesigned by the Brabantine sculptor Jérôme Duquesnoy the Elder and put in place in 1619. Its stone niche in rocaille style dates from 1770. The statue has been repeatedly stolen or damaged throughout its history. Since 1965, a replica has been displayed, with the original stored in the Brussels City Museum.

Wikipedia: Manneken Pis (EN), Url

187 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: L'Envol

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L'Envol is a bronze statue of Belgian singer Jacques Brel, sculpted by Tom Frantzen. It was inaugurated on the Place de la Vieille Halle aux Blés/Oud Korenhuisplein in Brussels, Belgium, on 11 October 2017.

Wikipedia: L'Envol (statue) (EN)

443 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 10: Garden of the Mont des Arts

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The Mont des Arts Garden is a small public park in Brussels, situated between the Royal Library of Belgium and the Square Meeting Centre, the former Palais des Congress, on the Mont des Arts. The park covers an area of 1.04 hectares. The park offers relaxation space but also has a transit function on the one hand from the upper to lower city, but also between the surrounding museums, spaces and library.

Wikipedia: Tuin van de Kunstberg (NL)

207 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: The Whirling Ear

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The Whirling Ear is a 1958 sculpture by Alexander Calder, installed in Brussels. It was made using sheet metal and paint, with motor. The sculpture was commissioned.

Wikipedia: The Whirling Ear (EN)

151 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Musical Instruments Museum

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The Museum of Musical Instruments in Brussels, the MIM, founded in 1877, is one of the most important museums of musical instruments in the world. Its collections include more than eight thousand instruments, of which more than one thousand two hundred are exhibited in the museum's rooms.

Wikipedia: Musée des instruments de musique de Bruxelles (FR), Website

458 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 13: La Madeleine

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La Madeleine

The Magdalena Hall is a concert hall in the Rue Duquesnoy in Brussels.

Wikipedia: Magdalenazaal (Brussel) (NL), Website

105 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: Chapelle de la Madeleine - Magdalenakapel

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The Chapel of the Madeleine is a small Catholic religious building in the Gothic style located in the historic center of the city of Brussels (Belgium), about two hundred meters south of the Grand-Place. Built on the foundations of an older sanctuary, the current building dates from the fifteenth century. Liturgical and pastoral services are provided by the Fraternity of the Assumption.

Wikipedia: Chapelle de la Madeleine de Bruxelles (FR)

196 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: La Moisson - De Oogst

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La Moisson - De Oogst Infirmiers De Rue / CC BY-SA 3.0

The La Moisson drinking trough is a low-flow drinking water fountain located in the pentagon of the city of Brussels, at the corner of Rue des Éperonniers and Rue du Marché aux Fromages.

Wikipedia: Abreuvoir La Moisson (FR)

140 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 16: Everard 't Serclaes

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The Monument to Everard t'Serclaes is a brass bas-relief by Julien Dillens from 1902. There is in Brussels, in the gallery passing under the Maison de l'Étoile, at the corner of the rue Charles Buls and the Grand-Place, a suitable location, since it was in this house that t' Serclaes died of his wounds in 1388. The monument evokes the liberation of the city by Everard t'Serclaes. The work has been listed since 2002. This statue is very famous in Brussels

Wikipedia: Monument à Éverard t'Serclaes (FR)

72 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 17: Brussels Town Hall

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The Town Hall of the City of Brussels is a landmark building and the seat of the City of Brussels municipality of Brussels, Belgium. It is located on the south side of the famous Grand-Place/Grote Markt, opposite the neo-Gothic King's House or Bread House building, housing the Brussels City Museum.

Wikipedia: Brussels Town Hall (EN)

182 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 18: Les Aveugles - De Blinden

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The Blind Watering Trough is a drinking water fountain located in Rue au Beurre, in Brussels, Belgium, in front of the Church of St. Nicholas.

Wikipedia: Abreuvoir des Aveugles (FR)

37 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 19: La Laitière - Het Melkboerinnetje

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The Milkman's Wife is a statue in the Rue du Butter in the Belgian city of Brussels. It is located in front of the St. Nicholas Church not far from the Grote Markt. The statue was made by the sculptor Marc de Vos. The statue is based on a ghostly legend that took place in the 1670s.

Wikipedia: Het Melkboerinnetje (NL)

33 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 20: Église Saint-Nicolas - Sint-Niklaaskerk

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The Church of St. Nicholas in Brussels, built around 1125, is one of the first four churches in the city of Brussels in Belgium and the best preserved in its successive developments. Being next to the Palais de la Bourse, it is commonly known as Saint-Nicolas de la Bourse.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Nicolas (Bruxelles) (FR)

110 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 21: L'Agneau Blanc - Het Wit Lammeke

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The Maison de l'Agneau Blanc or simply l'Agneau Blanc is a Baroque house, built in 1696, located at 42, rue du Marché aux Herbes/Grasmarkt in Brussels, Belgium, parallel to the Grand-Place/Grote Markt. It has been a protected heritage site since 2011.

Wikipedia: Maison de l'Agneau Blanc (EN)

107 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 22: Royal Theater Toone

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Royal Theater TooneDennis Jarvis from Halifax, Canada / CC BY-SA 2.0

The Royal Theatre Toone, often simply referred to as Toone, is a folkloric theatre of marionettes in central Brussels, Belgium, active since 1830, and the only traditional Brussels puppet theatre still in operation.

Wikipedia: Royal Theatre Toone (EN), Website

130 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 23: Jeanneke Pis

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Jeanneke Pis is a modern fountain sculpture in central Brussels, Belgium. It was commissioned by Denis-Adrien Debouvrie in 1985 and erected in 1987 as a counterpoint to the city's famous Manneken Pis. The 50-centimetre (20 in) bronze statue depicts a naked little girl with short pigtails, squatting and urinating on a blue-grey limestone base.

Wikipedia: Jeanneke Pis (EN), Website

231 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 24: Théâtre Royal des Galeries

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The Théâtre royal des Galeries is a theatre in central Brussels, Belgium, subsidised by the French Community of Belgium. It opened in 1847 and has continuously hosted theatrical activities ever since. It is located in the Royal Saint-Hubert Galleries and can be accessed from Brussels-Central railway station.

Wikipedia: Théâtre Royal des Galeries (EN), Website

256 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 25: Museum of the National Bank of Belgium

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Museum of the National Bank of Belgium

The Museum of the National Bank of Belgium is a museum in central Brussels, Belgium, belonging to the National Bank of Belgium (NBB). Opened in 1982, it is one of the oldest central bank museums in Europe.

Wikipedia: Museum of the National Bank of Belgium (EN), Website

401 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 26: Saint Michael and Gudula Cathedral

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The Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula, usually shortened to the Cathedral of St. Gudula or St. Gudula by locals, is a medieval Roman Catholic cathedral in central Brussels, Belgium. It is dedicated to Saint Michael and Saint Gudula, the patron saints of the City of Brussels, and is considered to be one of the finest examples of Brabantine Gothic architecture.

Wikipedia: Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula (EN)

846 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 27: La Brabançonne

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La Brabançonne L’auteur n’a pas pu être identifié automatiquement. Il est supposé qu'il s'agit de : Ben2~commonswiki (étant donné la revendication de droit d’auteur). / CC BY-SA 3.0

The statue of the Brabant woman is a statue located on the Place Surlet de Chokier in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, and which was erected to the glory of the national anthem of Belgium in 1930, exactly one century after the Belgian Revolution.

Wikipedia: Statue de la Brabançonne (FR)

322 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 28: Chapelle Sainte-Julienne - Sint-Julianakapel

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The Chapel of Sainte-Julienne is a former chapel of Catholic worship located at rue de la Charité no. 39-41 in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode (Brussels).

Wikipedia: Chapelle Sainte-Julienne (FR), Website, Heritage Website

518 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 29: Église Saint-Josse - Sint-Joostkerk

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The church of Saint-Josse in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode (Brussels) is a neo-baroque style church built from 1867 by the architect Jules-Jacques Van Ysendyck who took over the work begun in 1864 by Jean-Frédéric Van der Rit.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Josse (Saint-Josse-ten-Noode) (FR)

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