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History. BRUSSELS. 10. Route. 9
Palais de Justice (p. 105)
principal entrance in the P
up to 1 p.m., y W/, hr. there a
daily 9-4 (Sun. 9.30-12), tickets 25. at the
wert: parties are escorted every 1/2 hr.
er. Ascent of the dome from the Salle
des Pas-Pe steps ) at 9.30, 11, 1.30, and 3 (50 c.). — Admission to
the Salle Perdus and to the Court-rooms ¢ ng trials is free.
Palais de la Nation (p 403), in summer daily 10-4, /2 fr. (Sun. & holi-
5 c.); when the h e is in session (Novy. -May) the public galleries
alone ope n (entr. then, Rue de ene adjoining the Post Office).
Picture Gallery (old pictures ve eu cay 10 to 3, 4, or 5.
Picture Gallery (modern pi . 118), daily 10 to 3, 4, or 5.
Sculpture Gallery (p. 107), A, or 5. These three collections
close at 1 p.m. ng ee iat
Ste. Gudul {
4.3) (till 4 in winter), oe
738. 100); Attractions.
p. 99, 100); *Picture Gallerz
of art are shown from 12 to
entrance by the S. transept.
g Day: Place and Rue Royale
pictures, modern sculptures; pp. 109,
Avenue Louise and Bois de la Cambre
. 123), Mannikin Fountain (p. 131);
eset d Armures
- 131). — 3rd Day: : Picture
Gudule (p. 101); Botanic
. — 4th D Natural History
Palais du Cinquar (antiquities and industrial art
excursion to Ter (Congo Museum; p. 146). — 5th
ts to the museums, or excursion to Waterloo, see p. 148.
de Hl (p. 134);
n paintings; f
excursion {o atten
-250 ft.), the capital of Belgium, the residence of the
royal family, and the seat of government, is situated nearly in the
centre of the kingdom, on the ne, atributary of the Dyle. The city,
or municipal district proper, is restricted to the pentagonal area en-
closed by the Boulevards (comp. the Plan), consisting of the Lower
Town, intersected by several ramifications of the Senne, most of which
are now vaulted over, and the Upper Town on the ridge to the W.,
and the new quarters to the E. and §.E. (Quartier Léopold, Quartier
Nord-Est, Avenue Louise). Outside this area, which has a population
of nearly 200,000, are the nine self-governing suburbs (named from
the N. towards the E., S., and W.: Schaerbeek, St. Josse-ten-Noode,
Etterbeek, Inxelles, St. Gilles, Cureghem-Anderlecht, Molenbeeck-St-
Jean, Koekelberg, Laeken). Including these, the population of the
‘Agglomération Bruxelloise’ is about 687,000. There are nearly
2000 English residents, most of whom reside in or near the Avenue
Louise and the (Juartier Léopold, the highest and pleasantest part
of the town. Brussels is the only town in Belgium in which the two
nationalities of the kingdom come into close contact and inter-
mingle. The linguistic dividing-line lies only a short distance to the
S. Frenchis undoubtedly the more important Janguage for the larger
inter. sts and for wholesale transactions, but Flemish asserts itself in
the retail-traffic of the lower town and of most of the suburbs.
The foundation of Brussels is ascribed by tradition to St. Géry,
Bishop of Cambrai in the 6th cent. and the alleged Apostle of Bel-
gium, who is said to have established a villaze named after himself
on an island in the Senne. The chronicles of the 10th cent. men-
tion this village gee the name of ‘Brucsella’ (broek, marsh; broek-
sele, dwelling on the marsh), and a document of Otho the Great |
