Martyrs Square

Place des Martyrs or Martyrs square was completed in 1775 on a spot that used to be filled with green grass where drapers came to lay their fabrics to dry.

This statue is to remember and honor the death of the 455 patriots who died a Martyrs death in the 1830 uprising

The four angels that surround the statue are there to look after them in their eternal resting place

Here is the monument to Count Frédéric de Mérode

He was wounded near Bercherm in 1830 and later died of his wounds


Porte the Hal

Porte de Hal is the only surviving of the original seven gates set to protect the city of Brussels within a wall. This medieval construction was build from 1357 to 1373 and was only spared from demolition when the second town walls were dismantled because its vocation had previously been changed into a prison. It now serves as a museum that holds art collections from the Royal Museum of Arts and History.

Here at a distance

A bit closer up

Back entrance

From one side

and now the other

Here at the main entrance