Brussels. The Grand Place

The Grand Place is the heart of the city, which has been beating since the Middle Ages and could not have been stopped either by world wars or by shocks inside the country. The magnificent architecture of the square in modern Brussels is the main attraction of the Belgian capital.

The main buildings around the square are the Brussels Town Hall and the Bread House or the King’s House. Each of them has its own history, and a detailed tour of them takes more than one hour. As for the Market Square itself, it originated on a dried swamp in the 12th century.

We can see the facades of the Town Hall on the left part of the screen. It took almost a century to build, from 1402 to 1480. Every tourist takes a photo against the backdrop of the huge 91-meter tower of the town hall, which was erected in the middle of the fifteenth century. Opposite the town hall, we can see the Bread House, used in the Middle Ages for its intended purpose, namely for storing bread. It is now the City Museum.

Just a couple of minutes walk from the square is the oldest resident of Brussels, the famous Manneken Pis. It’s interesting that the first fountain with the boy appeared in the fourteenth century, but the boy who survives to this day dates back to 1619.