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of Brussels. TERVUEREN. 10. Route. 147
villas (some built in the style of chateaux) to the Val St. Pierre
( Woluwe Valley), where it crosses the railway to Tervueren. Farther
on it intersects the E. skirts of the Forest of Soignes (station, Quatre-
Bras, at the intersection of the road from Waterloo to Malines) and
ends, beyond the tramway-station of Tervueren-Village (see below),
on the N. side of the park of —
Tervueren, where the termini of the railway and the tramway
stand close together. To the E. are the new Congo Museum and the
terminus of the steam-tramway to Louvain (p. 243).
The old *Park oF TERVUEREN, with large ponds, decorative
sculptures, and picturesque vistas, was a favourite resort in the 17-
{8th cent. for court festivals and hunting parties. The remains of
the chateau (garden-restaurant), which occupied the site of a hunt-
ing-lodge of the Duke of Brabant and fell a prey to the flames in
1879, are to be completely removed. The N. side of the pak abuts
on the handsome *Congo Museum, built in 1904 by the French
architect Ch. Girault and opened in 1910, which contain’s collec-
tions illustrating the civilization and products of the Congo territory
(director, Baron Alph. de Haulleyille; adm. cee p. 96). To reach
the 8. part of the park, where the paths converge at a rondel con-
taining some Druidical stones, we descend along the terraces and
cross a bridge. — As we leave the park by its W. exit we pass the
chapel of St. Hubert (1617) snd then reach the main square of the
village.
The village of Tervueren, with two hotels, ihe H6t.-Restaurant
Paquot (Pl. a; Grand’ Place, 20R. from 21/,, B. 4, déj. or D. 24/ofr.,
good) and the Armes d’Angleterre, is noted for its colony of artists.
It possesses substantial cottages, and an old church, partially restor-
ed in the 17th and 48th centuries.
The Forest cf Soignes (10,280 acres), to the S E. of Brussels, beyond
the Pois de la Cambre (p. 142), from which it is separated by the Chaussée
de la Hulpe, is most conveniently reached by taking the line of the
Chemins de Fer Vicinaux, starting at the Place Rouppe (p. 132), to the
station of Vert Chasseur. Most of the carriage-roads traversing the wcod
run at right angles to each other. The Avenue de Lorraine, the continu-
ation of the road from the Bois de la Cambre, curves towards the S.E. to
the Hippodrome de Groencndcel (p. 232), the chief race-course of Brussels
(p. 95). The straight Route de Mont St. Jean leads hence to the N.E. to
(6 M.) Tervueren e above), and to the S.W. to the Chdleau of Argenteuil
(a little to the left of the road), built by J. P. Cluyrsenaar for the Count
of Meevs, and thence on to (51/2 M.) Waterloo (p. 148). — The Chaussée
de la Hulpe leads to the 8.E. to the (21/2 M.) Hippodrome de Boitsfort (rail-
way-station, see p. 232; tramway No. 16, see p. £8).
Finally a pleasant excursion may be made (Ly the Enghien line of
the Chemings de Fer Vicinaux as far as the ‘Chemin de Gaesbeek’ station,
near Lennick-St-Martin) to the Castle of Gaesbeek, an extensive medieval
building, recently restcred, with a pretty park, and now the property of
the city of Brussels.
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