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wow, you made brussels looks really beautiful, i mean making de broukere and rogier look nice is quite an acomplishment, because they are hideous in real life haha

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Thanks. Brussels IS beautiful. At least most of the city is...

And yes, De Brouckère and Rogier Square are quite hectic with too much traffic.
There is a concrete plan for a new, bigger and even glass covered Rogier Square. Works should have started in April...
And there are vague plans for a reconstruction of the Boulevards and Square De Brouckère. It has to become a real central pedestrian square again, I think.
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Brosella Folk & jazz festival, last weekend near the Atonium:













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Great pictures, Benonie.
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Keep it up, Benonie! If I had my way, I'd instantly move to Brussels.
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I deleted some comments in this thread.
This is a photothread, comments that are just there to berate a city or to attack the one who has gone through the trouble of taking photos and posting them here are not appreciated.
And it's not like this is the first time either, you have quite the history looking back...


Consider yourself warned and consider yourself watched...:|
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Great set of photos. Brussels seems a much greater city than its population would indicate.
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The municipality of Brussels city itselfs has got only 150.000 inhabitants.
But that's only a small part of the Brussels Capital Region, which has got an own gouvernement en a population of 1.100.000.
The metropolitan area has got some 2.000.000 inhabitants.

And of course, as the seat of the Belgian and flemish gouvernement and hosting the EU and NATO, it has got ten thousands of bureaucrats coming to Brussels every day.
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That last series of pictures summed up everything I like best about Brussels, tall, thin townhouses with gorgeous decorations and an earthy, ungentrified feel to many of its neighbourhoods.
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The municipality of Brussels city itselfs has got only 150.000 inhabitants.
But that's only a small part of the Brussels Capital Region, which has got an own gouvernement en a population of 1.100.000.
The metropolitan area has got some 2.000.000 inhabitants.

And of course, as the seat of the Belgian and flemish gouvernement and hosting the EU and NATO, it has got ten thousands of bureaucrats coming to Brussels every day.
The downtown looks as though it was the centre of a metropolitan area of 4-5 million. Thanks for stats.
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They really knew how to build a place back in the day. Some of the new stuff is nice too.
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The municipality of Brussels city itselfs has got only 150.000 inhabitants.
But that's only a small part of the Brussels Capital Region, which has got an own gouvernement en a population of 1.100.000.
The metropolitan area has got some 2.000.000 inhabitants.
Yep, but keep in mind that most European cities define their metro areas along much stricter lines than the US Census does for American cities.

The official Brussels metropolitan area (region as they call it) could be compared to a US MSA, but we should note that this underestimates it relative to American cities. Brussels' true commuter belt is much bigger.





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The downtown looks as though it was the centre of a metropolitan area of 4-5 million. Thanks for stats.
Well, this is because American cities have such generous definitions for their metro areas. We should account for that when comparing. On paper cities like Amsterdam or Brussels are smaller than Boston or Philadelphia, but not in reality.

Brussels for instance is also part of the Flemish Diamond, something that could be considered a CSA if we use American terms and it indeed has 5 million inhabitants.
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Brussels for instance is also part of the Flemish Diamond, something that could be considered a CSA if we use American terms and it indeed has 5 million inhabitants.
Then you have to count almost the whole Flemish region as a part of Brussels Metropolitan Area, and that's something the Flemish people don't want to hear at all....
But of course a big part of Flanders is very urban and people from the whole country are coming to Brussels for work every day.

More Brussels, but a rather 'modern' part:

At Schaerbeek I took the bus to the city center, but jumped of at Madou-metrostation near Madou-tower.
This is situated on the eastern 'Pentagon'-ring road. It marks the border between Saint-Josse and Brussels-city.





Astro Tower and Saint-Josse town hall.




Residential tower at Saint-Josse.




Finance Tower.


The renovated Madou-Tower nowadays hosts 1.200 EU-beaurocrats.






Inner Ring Road 'Pentagon'


Madou Metro Station.
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