Early days in Brussels
Brussels is now our new home. It’s also home to just over a million other folks and the capital of two unions, one of which is barely holding together as a nation these days.
The old town is heart-shaped, girded by a ring road that roughly follows the line of the old city walls.
Architecture inside the ring broadly consists of the beautiful homes, guildhouses and markets of medieval burghers, together with much later maisons de maître.
Elsewhere Brussels is dominated by a conspicuous streak of bland neoclassicism initiated by the unpopular monarch King Leopold II.
Brussels Old Town
