Around Rue Marconi in Forest

This guided tour will explore some remarkable heritage social housing, plus a school and some private homes in Forest.

Rue Marconi and Rue Rodenbach are small former industrial enclaves in Forest, a suburb of Brussels that was built up in the early twentieth century. They contain a veritable catalogue of social and workers’ housing. Around 1900, small workers’ houses gave way to apartment buildings as part of a desire to build both aesthetically pleasing and functional housing. This guided tour will explore some remarkable heritage social housing, plus a school and some private homes in Forest.