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GREATER BRUSSELS

Past the heart-shaped ring-road of Brussels north, Heysel offers attractions whose
city centre lie 19 suburbs (communes) which modernity contrasts with the historical city
form the Bruxelles-Capitale region. While centre. The 1958 Atomium, now restored,
many are residential, a handful are definitely stands next to the Bruparck theme park. To
worth the short ride to sample outlying the east, the Central Africa Museum reflects
treasures of Brussels’ fascinating history. For Belgium’s colonial past in the Congo, and
fans of early 20th-century architecture, the the tram museum takes a journey through
suburb of St-Gilles offers numerous original Brussels’ urban past. Peace and tranquillity
examples of striking Art Nouveau buildings, can be found close to the metropolis, in the
including the Horta Museum. In Koekelberg orderly landscape of Royal Laeken and
and visible from the Upper Town is the huge the lush green spaces of the Bois de la
Sacré-Coeur basilica, started in 1904. To the Cambre and the Fôret de Soignes.

Sights at a Glance
Churches and Cathedrals Parks and Gardens Key
8 Basilique Nationale du Sacré- 5 Fôret de Soignes Central Brussels
Coeur q Domaine de Laeken see pp90–91 Motorway
Historic Monuments, Buildings e Bruparck Major Road
and Districts Museums and Exhibition Areas Minor road
2 Avenue Louise 1 Horta Museum see p86 Railway
3 St-Gilles 9 Musée du Tram
4 Ixelles 0 Musée Royal de l’Afrique
6 Uccle Centrale
7 Anderlecht w The Atomium

Antwerp
Wemmel N12 Brussels
Airport
Zellik
R21
Diegen
Ghent
A201 Zaventem
A10 Evere
Ganshoren Jette
Ste-Agatha- N2 Leuven
Berchem Schaerbeek R0
Koekelberg St-Josse A2 Kraainem
R0
Molenbeek R20
Dilbeek N8 BRUSSELS Woluwe-Saint-
Lambert
Ninove Anderlecht
N6 Etterbeek Woluwe-
Saint-Pierre
St-Gilles Ixelles
N3 Tervuren
Forest Auderghem
Watermael-
N5
Uccle Boitsfort N4
A7 0 km 2
Drogenbos 0 miles 2
Ruisbroek Mons
The Atomium monument in the Heysel Park, Brussels For keys to symbols see back flap

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