Grand Place (Brussels) Stock Photography

The central square of the Belgian capital has two names, the French-speaking population calls it the Grand Place, the Dutch part of the population calls the Grote Markt square. It includes three architectural styles at once: Gothic, Baroque and Louis XIV style. This makes the Grand Place unlike any other European square, adding color and color to it.It is surrounded by the Brussels City Hall and more than 40 other buildings built between the 14th and 17th centuries. Among them, a special place is occupied by the Bread House or the King's House, a unique building of the 13th century, which in its history was a grain warehouse, a prison, a tax office and even a residential building for a Belgian duke. Also, a flower carpet is “spread” on the Grand Place every two years. People from all over the world come to Brussels to see the carpet with a unique pattern of 1.8 thousand m², the material of which is fresh flowers.