Place du Luxembourg, Brussels
The square consists largely of restaurants and bars which dominate the wide pavements, with some banks and other retail services, serving the employees and members of the neighbouring European Parliament as well as the other European Institutions and associated organisations which are mostly located close-by.
The square consists largely of restaurants and bars which dominate the wide pavements, with some banks and other retail services, serving the employees and members of the neighbouring European Parliament as well as the other European Institutions and associated organisations which are mostly located close-by. In the centre of the square is a statue of John Cockerill, a prominent British-Belgian 19th century industrialist, which is a copy of the statue outside Seraing town hall in Liège. The figure of Cockerill is leaning against an anvil and surrounded by an industrial figures from period: a glassmaker, a mechanic, a puddler and a miner. Cockerill's motto, Work and Intelligence, are engraved upon the statue.
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About Place du Luxembourg
1050 Ixelles, Belgium
Place du Luxembourg and Nearby Sights on Map
Parlamentarium
Parlamentarium is the European Parliament's Visitor Centre featuring interactive multimedia displays on the journey of European integration, the working of the European Parliament and other EU institutions, and its impact on member-nations
Statue of Europe
Also referred to as Unity in Peace, this sculpture symbolises peace through European integration, while at the same time aiming to demonstrate the motto of the European Union (EU), United in Diversity
Part of Berlin Wall
Leopold Quarter
The Leopold Quarter is home to the European Parliament in the Paul-Henri Spaak building, Luxembourg Square, the European Commission in Berlaymont building, the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, and Antoine Wiertz Museum for Fine Arts
European Parliament
Multimedia-guided tours in all official EU languages
Monument to Julien Dillens
Natural Sciences Museum of Belgium
The museum is well-known for its famous collection of iguanodons (dinosaurs discovered in a coal-mine in Belgium)
Convent Van Maerlant
Rue de la Loi
Rue de la Loi is a major thoroughfare dotted with administrative buildings such as the Belgian Federal Parliament, European Commission, and Official Residence of the Prime Minister of Belgium
Musée Camille Lemonnier
The Camille Lemonnier Museum is a recreation of Belgian-French writer Camille Lemonnier's work space in Rue du Lac, displaying his art collection