Secret Brussels

Stunning Art Nouveau façades, a stretch of the Senne reconstituted in Saint-Géry, a farm in the city centre, a Freemasonic interpretation of Brussels Park, the amazing physiognomical fountain of Magritte, the place where the Tsar of Russia vomited in Brussels Park in 1717, the rotunda of the Panorama parking garage, a tribute to the soldier pigeon, speleology in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, a panoramic swimming pool, a scandalous pavilion in Cinquantenaire Park, a huge vegetable garden in Uccle, a 19th-century artist’s studio in Schaerbeek, a campsite in the heart of the city, a garden forgotten in the Forest...

For those who keep a keen eye, push open doors, and get off the beaten track, Brussels is full of curiosities and surprising details that will amaze inhabitants and visitors alike who think they know the city like the back of their hand.

Nathalie Capart has lived in Brussels since she was old enough to be emancipated. She has been a text worker for many years, always diversifying, finding and loosing her way around, guided above all by her curiosity and her enthusiasm, with a strong preference for the exotic trips to the street next door.

Isabelle de Pange was born in Uccle and lives in Schaerbeek. She is an art historian (at the UCL) and is an architecture enthusiast. She has worked for a long time at the Inventory of Architectural Heritage of Bruxelles-Capitale, before she became curator of the museums of Brussels City, from 2015 to 2018. She has signed a lot of publications about her town.

Jean-Jacques & Brigitte Evrard-Lauwereins have lived in Brussels for over 50 years. Lovers of art and architecture, in 2020 they started their admirable-facades.brussels website, which presents more than 300 remarkable buildings in Brussels.