All our guided tours
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Les étangs d'Ixelles
Au début du XXe siècle, le Bruxellois, très attaché à la maison individuelle, va progressivement se laisser convaincre par la vie en appartement.
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Le quartier Notre-Dame-aux-Neiges
Le quartier Notre-Dame-aux-Neiges, tel que nous le connaissons aujourd’hui, est une création des années 1870.
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Le quartier Lepoutre
L’avenue Louis Lepoutre à Ixelles constitue l’épine dorsale du quartier de Berkendael.
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The Marolles
This tour shows some of the district’s hidden gems and tries to explain the issues confronting today’s residents.
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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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The Notre-Dame-aux-Neiges district
The “Our Lady of the Snows” district that we see today was created in the 1870s. Covering the strip of land between the Congress Column and the inner ring road, its high-quality public spaces and ornate facades create a unique urban environment
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The Lepoutre district
The Avenue Louis Lepoutre in Ixelles is the backbone of the Berkendael district. Its townhouses and apartment buildings, commissioned by the city’s elite in the period just before the First World War are good examples of the typical Belgian urban lifestyle in that era, inspired by Paris, among other cities
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Around Our Lady of Laeken church
Further from the church are some beautiful groups of buildings, such as the former Grenadiers’ barracks, now a European school, and the Florists’ Gardens, which are well worth a visit.
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The district around Place de l’Altitude Cent
A walking tour through a district with a rich history and many less-well-known buildings.
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The Solbosch district
A very rich perimeter developed around an exceptional landscaped avenue, where prestigious houses is various styles were built.
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Garden suburbs: Le Logis-Floréal
The twin garden suburbs of “Le Logis” and “Floréal” together contain 1,500 houses and constitute the largest group of affordable dwellings built in Belgium in the inter-war years.
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From Boulevard du Jubilé to the canal
The development of a trans-shipment goods station and new port infrastructures on the Tour and Taxis site in the early twentieth century had a huge effect on this district.
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At the heart of Anderlecht
The collegiate church of St Peter and St Guidon, together with the Erasmus house and its magnificent garden, plus the smallest béguinage in Belgium plunge us into the heart of a thousand years of history.
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The Flagey district
This guided walking tour takes you through a district of the city unlike any other.
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Around Square Riga in Schaerbeek
L’avenue Huart Hamoir à Schaerbeek est exceptionnelle autant par ses dimensions que par la qualité de son aménagement.
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In the heights of Saint-Gilles
The urban development designed at the end of the nineteenth century between Chaussée de Waterloo, Chaussée d’Alsemberg and Avenue Ducpétiaux is extraordinarily rich in terms of architecture and planning
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At the heart of Forest
The history of Forest began around St Denis’s church, but it was the establishment of an abbey here that began the development of the lower part of Forest with the growing of crops and the raising of animals on farms.
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Following the traces of the railway in the city: from Saint-Josse to Schaerbeek
ARAU offers you an opportunity to follow the traces of this railway line through several groups of remarkable heritage buildings
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Behind the walls: the prison
ARAU invites you on a journey through the history of the construction of these cellular prisons (of which some parts will soon become listed buildings) that accompanied the development of districts with particularly rich architecture and urban perspectives.