Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert
A glazed shopping arcade of 1847, among the oldest in Europe, a short walk from the apartment and dry in any weather.
The Grand-Place is the reason most people come to Brussels, and it earns it. The square was largely rebuilt after the French bombardment of 1695, which is why the guildhouses share a single, coherent late-baroque skyline rather than the patchwork you would expect from buildings raised by competing trades.
The Hôtel de Ville is the one survivor of the bombardment, and its tower is deliberately off-centre, a quirk that has attracted a great deal of invented folklore about a despairing architect. He did not jump.
Every two years in August the square is covered by a flower carpet of begonias. In December it holds the Christmas market and a sound-and-light show that is either charming or unbearable depending on the crowd.
We still detour through it on the way home. Go once at nine in the morning when the square is empty and the light is on the guildhall gables, then again at night when they are lit. They are two different places.
どのくらい離れていますか
| 起点 | 直線距離 | 徒歩 |
|---|---|---|
| Grand-Place | 0 m | 約1分 |
| 私たちのアパルトマン | 250 m | 約5分 |
| Manneken-Pis | 260 m | 約5分 |
| ブリュッセル中央駅 | 320 m | 約6分 |
| Place du Grand Sablon | 650 m | 約12分 |
