Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Etterbeek, Belgium

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Number of sights 26 sights
Distance 11.6 km
Ascend 233 m
Descend 293 m

Experience Etterbeek 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 Etterbeek

Sight 1: Maison Cauchie - Cauchiehuis

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The Cauchie House is a historic town house in Brussels, Belgium. It was designed by the architect, painter, and designer Paul Cauchie, and built in 1905, in Art Nouveau style. Its façade is remarkable for its allegorical sgraffito decoration.

Wikipedia: Cauchie House (EN), Website

277 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 2: Autoworld Museum

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Autoworld is a museum of vintage cars located in the South Hall of the Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark in Brussels, Belgium. The museum displays a large and varied collection of over 250 European and American automobiles from the late 19th century to the 1990s and is notable for its collections of early and Belgian-produced vehicles, including Minervas and several limousines belonging to the Belgian royal family. It can be accessed from the metro stations Schuman and Merode on lines 1 and 5.

Wikipedia: Autoworld (museum) (EN), Website

204 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Archs of the Cinquantenaire

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The Cinquantenaire Arcade is a memorial arcade in the centre of the Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark in Brussels, Belgium. The centrepiece is a monumental triple arch known as the Cinquantenaire Arch. It is topped by a bronze quadriga sculptural group with a female charioteer, representing the Province of Brabant personified raising the national flag.

Wikipedia: Cinquantenaire Arcade (EN), Heritage Website

381 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 4: Art & History Museum

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The Art & History Museum is a public museum of antiquities and ethnographic and decorative arts located at the Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark in Brussels, Belgium. The museum is one of the constituent parts of the Royal Museums of Art and History (RMAH) and is one of the largest art museums in Europe. It was formerly called the Cinquantenaire Museum until 2018. It is served by the metro stations Schuman and Merode on lines 1 and 5.

Wikipedia: Art & History Museum (EN), Website

940 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 5: Parc Félix Hap - Félix Haptuin

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The Jean-Félix Hap garden is a park dedicated to rest and walking with an ecological and educational area located in the municipality of Etterbeek (Brussels).

Wikipedia: Jardin Jean-Félix Hap (FR)

448 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 6: Église Saint-Jean Chrysostome - Heilige Johannes Chrysostomoskerk

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The Church of St. John Chrysostom or Church of St. John Chrysostom is a church building of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in the Belgian municipality of Etterbeek in the Brussels-Capital Region. The church is located at 41 rue de la Morgenland in the west of the municipality of Etterbeek.

Wikipedia: Sint-Jan Chrysostomoskerk (NL)

654 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 7: Parc Léopold - Leopoldpark

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Leopold Park is a public park of 6.43 ha located within the Leopold Quarter of Brussels, Belgium. It is adjacent to the Paul-Henri Spaak building, the seat of the European Parliament. It is served by the metro stations Maalbeek/Maelbeek and Schuman on lines 1 and 5 of the Brussels Metro.

Wikipedia: Leopold Park (EN)

289 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Musée Wiertz Museum

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The Wiertz Museum is a museum dedicated to the oeuvre of a single artist; the painter, sculptor and writer Antoine Wiertz (1806-1865). The Wiertz Museum, located in Rue Vautier in the Brussels municipality of Ixelles, was built as a studio and residence at the expense of the state for the painter Antoine Wiertz, who would leave behind seven monumental paintings in return. Shortly after the artist's death, the studio became a museum. Henri or Hendrik Conscience lived in the house from 1868, until his death in 1883.

Wikipedia: Wiertzmuseum (NL), Website

182 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Museum for Natural Sciences of Belgium

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The Museum of Natural Sciences of Belgium is a Brussels museum dedicated to natural history. It is a part of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences.

Wikipedia: Museum of Natural Sciences (EN), Website

556 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 10: Le Rideau de Bruxelles

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Le Rideau de Bruxelles is a theatre company founded in 1943 by Claude Étienne at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. It is now located in the municipality of Ixelles.

Wikipedia: Rideau de Bruxelles (FR), Website

516 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 11: Église Saint-Boniface - Sint-Bonifaaskerk

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The Church of St. Boniface is a Roman Catholic church located at 21a-23 rue de la paix, in Ixelles, a municipality in the city of Brussels, Belgium.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Boniface d'Ixelles (FR)

430 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 12: Théâtre Mercelis - Mercelistheater

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The small Mercelis theater is a theater located in Ixelles. It welcomes artists and audiences halfway between avenue Louise and Place Fernand Cocq, at numbers 13 and 15 on rue Mercelis.

Wikipedia: Théâtre Mercelis (FR)

626 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 13: Musée d'Ixelles - Museum van Elsene

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The Municipal Museum of Fine Arts in Ixelles presents a vast panorama of Belgian art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its collections bring together paintings, sculptures, drawings representing the different artistic currents of this period: realism, impressionism, luminism, neo-impressionism and symbolism for the nineteenth century and, closer to us, fauvism, expressionism, cubism, surrealism, constructed and lyrical abstraction as well as the main current trends. A sample of Flemish teachers and a few representatives of foreign schools complete this collection. A collection of posters as well, including the most exhaustive set of Toulouse-Lautrec posters in the world.

Wikipedia: Musée communal des Beaux-Arts d'Ixelles (FR), Website

455 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 14: Théâtre Marni

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The Théâtre Marni is a Brussels theatre located in Ixelles, rue de Vergnies.

Wikipedia: Le Marni (FR), Website

1131 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 15: Hôtel Otlet - Huis Otlet

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The Hôtel Otlet is a historic town house in Brussels, Belgium. It was designed by the architect Octave van Rysselberghe for the jurist, bibliographer and entrepreneur Paul Otlet, and built between 1894 and 1898, in Art Nouveau style. This work marks the still cautious insertion of Van Rysselberghe into that style.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Otlet (EN)

329 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 16: Hôtel José Ciamberlani

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The Hotel José Ciamberlani is an Art Nouveau building built in 1900 by the architect Paul Hankar in Ixelles in the Brussels-Capital Region (Belgium).

Wikipedia: Hôtel José Ciamberlani (FR)

446 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 17: Église de la Sainte-Trinité - Heilige Drievuldigheidskerk

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The Church of the Holy Trinity is a nineteenth-century religious building located in Ixelles, in the municipality of Brussels (Belgium). Its façade is that of the old Augustinian church, demolished in 1893 to make way for the creation of the Place de Brouckère. It is a Catholic parish church.

Wikipedia: Église de la Sainte-Trinité (Bruxelles) (FR)

823 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 18: Maison Van Bellighen Tomberg - Huis Van Bellighen Tomberg

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The Van Bellinghen Tomberg House is an Art Nouveau building built in 1900 by the architect Ernest Blerot in Saint-Gilles in the Brussels-Capital Region (Belgium).

Wikipedia: Maison Van Bellinghen Tomberg (FR), Heritage Website

185 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 19: Maison Delcoigne - Huis Delcoigne

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The Maison Delcoigne is an Art Nouveau building built by the Belgian architect Georges Delcoigne in Saint-Gilles, a municipality in Brussels, Belgium.

Wikipedia: Maison Delcoigne (FR), Heritage Website

188 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 20: Maison Pelgrims - Pelgrimshuis

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The Pilgrim's House is a mansion in the Brussels municipality of Saint-Gilles and is located at 69 rue Parma, next to the Pierre Paulus Park that used to belong to the house. The first floor of the building is an exhibition space, the second floor has housed the municipality's Culture Department since 2000. The programming of the municipal cultural facilities and the number of events in the public space are recorded in the Pilgrim's House. In the course of the year and during the school holidays, courses are also organised for children, in collaboration with the Compagnie des Neufs Lunes, among others.

Wikipedia: Pelgrimshuis (NL), Heritage Website

141 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 21: Parc Pierre Paulus - Pierre Pauluspark

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The Pierre Paulus Park or Peter Paul of Parma Park is a public park in Saint-Gilles in the Brussels-Capital Region. The 1.2-hectare park is located between Rue Parma and Rue de la Monnaie and is managed by the municipality of Saint-Gilles The park is named after the Belgian expressionist painter Baron Pierre Paulus.

Wikipedia: Pierre Pauluspark (NL)

458 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 22: La porteuse d'eau - De waterdraagster

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The Water Carrier is a bronze statue by Julien Dillens erected in the centre of the Barrière de Saint-Gilles on 10 April 1900.

Wikipedia: La Porteuse d'eau (Dillens) (FR)

90 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 23: De Beck

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The De Beck building is an Art Nouveau building designed by the architect Gustave Strauven in Saint-Gilles (Brussels) in 1905.

Wikipedia: Immeuble De Beck (FR), Heritage Website

435 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 24: Église Sainte-Alène - Sint-Alenakerk

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The Saint-Alena Church is a church building in the Brussels suburb of Saint-Gilles, located at 49-51 Avenue Villa.

Wikipedia: Sint-Alenakerk (NL)

376 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 25: Parc de Forest - Park van Vorst

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Forest Park or Vorst Park is a public park located in and named after the municipality of Forest in Brussels, Belgium. It was designed by Victor Besme and occupies an area of 13 hectares.

Wikipedia: Forest Park, Brussels (EN)

1015 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 26: Wiels

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WIELS is a contemporary art centre in Forest, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium. The centre opened in 2007 in the former Blomme building, which belonged to the Wielemans-Ceuppens brewery. It has three exhibition platforms with a total exhibition space of 1,800 m2 (19,000 sq ft), an auditorium, studio workshops for artists-in-residence, and a café/foyer and bookshop in the former brewing hall.

Wikipedia: Wiels (EN), Website

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