All our guided tours
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Brussels 1900 - Art Nouveau
The tour helps participants to understand the place of Art Nouveau in Brussels, its origins, its technical and stylistic characteristics, and the personalities of its most wellknown architects.
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The most beautiful Neo-Classical groups of buildings of the historic centre
In the eighteenth century, the urban fabric of Brussels inherited from the Middle Ages was profoundly changed by the construction of three major Neo-Classical groups of buildings
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The avenue Franklin Roosevelt District, a veritable catalogue of Art Deco architecture
The Avenue Franklin Roosevelt, laid out on the site of the 1910 Universal Exhibition, offers a wide panorama of the architectural trends of the inter-war period, in which the Art Deco style occupies a prime position.
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Art Deco and Modernism in Uccle : The Longchamp district
This guided tour illustrates the different architectural styles of the period and the decorative delights to be found on some facades.
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Brussels : Capital of Art Nouveau
The Art Nouveau style of architecture was first seen in the district around the Avenue Louise in Brussels. From Victor Horta’s Tassel House, a veritable manifesto for the style, to the more geometric designs of Paul Hankar, this visit explores the context of the style’s creation in Brussels.
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Art Nouveau in Saint-Gilles
Some of the most significant Art Nouveau buildings in the city are located in Saint-Gilles.
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The Ixelles Ponds
The Ixelles Ponds district offers a remarkable panorama of some of the best twentieth-century buildings in Brussels, from Art Nouveau via Art Deco to Modernism.
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Art Nouveau in Schaerbeek
Victor Horta, Gustave Strauven, François Hemelsoet and Henri Jacobs were just four of the architects who reinvented family houses, apartment buildings and educational buildings in the Art Nouveau style.
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The squares district
The district became a veritable laboratory of late nineteenth-century architecture, with facades in a wide variety of styles, from unfettered Eclecticism to Art Nouveau, then at its zenith. This tour could include the visit of the Victor Horta’s van Eetvelde Mansion.
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Art Nouveau in the Marolles
Discover the most beautiful Art Nouveau buildings in the Marolles!
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Brussels 1930 - Art Deco and Modernism
The tour includes visits to at least two interiors, subject to availability, chosen from Forest Town Hall, Koekelberg Basilica Church, the RVS Insurance building (now SD Worx) and the Van Buuren museum, an Art Deco masterpiece.
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From Art Nouveau to Art Deco
This three-hour coach tour explores two of the major styles in the history of architecture in Brussels
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Art Deco and Modernism in Uccle | Part 1
On the outskirts of the city, the former village of Uccle became, in the inter-war years, a particularly desirable residential area for the inhabitants of Brussels...
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Totally Horta
This three-hour coach tour explores the remaining buildings of Victor Horta, the leading Belgian Art Nouveau architect
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Solvay Mansion
This Art Nouveau masterpiece was designed in 1895 and today is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Almost miraculously, most of its interior decoration has been preserved.
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Max Hallet Mansion
In 1902, Max Hallet, a leading Belgian politician and lawyer, commissioned Victor Horta to design a house suitable for entertaining guests on the prestigious Avenue Louise. A spectacular stairwell forms the heart of this urban palace
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The Art Nouveau facade, a total work of art
This tour will introduce you to the wide range of techniques and materials used in the Art Nouveau style, including carved stone, wrought iron, cast iron, timber, ceramics, sgraffiti and stained glass. You will also discover some lesser-known “hidden gems”.
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Turn-of-the-century Brussels: from one town hall to another
The “Turn-of-the-century Brussels” guided tours offer opportunities to explore the history of urban development and architectural design in this defining period for the Brussels region.
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Turn-of-the-century Brussels: from Ixelles to Schaerbeek
The “Turn-of-the-century Brussels” guided tours offer opportunities to explore the history of urban development and architectural design in this defining period for the Brussels region.
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Art Nouveau and Art Deco in Schaerbeek
In the early years of the twentieth century, the village of Schaerbeek was transformed by the construction of the prestigious Avenue Louis Bertrand.
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The central boulevards: a catalogue of Eclecticism
This guided walking tour explores the most beautiful, prize-winning facades along the central boulevards, where the Eclectic style occupies an important place.
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Gems of Eclectic architecture
This guided tour offers a beautiful glimpse of eclectic architecture and allows participants to see the high quality of some typical, less-well-known Brussels decorative features.
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Exploring Art Deco architecture in northern Brussels
This guided tour through the districts of Jette and Ganshoren explores the different trends within the Art Deco movement and shows every possible type of façade decoration you could imagine with interplays of colours, materials and shapes.
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Art nouveau and Art Deco in Forest
Forest Park is surrounded by a very rich diversity of heritage buildings, including a few very beautiful Art Nouveau facades that would justify a visit in themselves.