Brussels: area by area: The Lower Town – Place de Brouckère

This famous place constituted, until the accesses of 1970, a splendid architectural harmony. Unfortunately, this harmony was damaged by the skyscrapers of concrete and glass which overhang the place with the two corners of the Anspach boulevard. The place was created twenty years after the new central boulevards, after the demolition of the church of Augustins which occupied about half of the current place.