Brussels Town Hall – The Atomium loop from Gare Centrale - Centraal Station
Brussels Town Hall – The Atomium loop from Gare Centrale - Centraal Station
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Brussels Town Hall – The Atomium loop from Gare Centrale - Centraal Station
03:40
34.5km
290m
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Hard run. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: August 22, 2026
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After 828 m for 76 m
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Train Station
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622 m
Brussels Town Hall
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In a fortified room on the first floor, the municipal charters were most likely kept.[1] It is unclear whether the municipal bells were also hung there. During the turbulent period around the municipal uprising of 1420-1421, the town hall was stormed several times. There was factional strife among the patricians, social unrest among the crafts, an economic crisis in the cloth industry and dynastic problems in the duchy. This is probably why the belfry function lasted a few decades at most. The charters and privileges were transferred to the treasury rooms of the St. Gudula and St. Nicholas churches.[2]
Long balconies were provided in the front facade to allow events on the Grote Markt to be followed, such as the magnificent knightly tournaments and the joyous entries.[3] The privilege room in the tower served as a ducal lodge, four of whose windows looked out onto the square. This was where the prince and the city magistrate took their mutual oath during joyous entries. It was a space full of symbolism, where the preciously illuminated manuscripts of the Brabantsche Yeesten and the rhyming chronicle of Jan van Heelu were also kept.
In 1421, the craft nations conquered a place in the city magistrate, which may have partly motivated the expansion that was started in 1444. Charles the Bold laid the first stone of the right wing, which was certainly also intended to provide support for the heightening of the tower. The latter was a matter of prestige. The right wing is smaller than the left and is the work of Willem de Voghel, who also became the architect of the Magna Aula in 1452. The tower of the town hall, 96 meters high, was crowned from 1449 by Jan van Ruisbroeck, architect of Philip the Good.
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991 m
Brussels Stock Exchange (Bourse de Bruxelles)
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8.17 km
Rue du Bois Cobblestone Path
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8.46 km
Villa gallo-romaine - Gallo-Romeinse villa
Archaeological Site
9.32 km
Open shelter
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13.7 km
The Atomium
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Doomed to disappear at the end of the exhibition, the Atomium will be saved by its popularity to become this important international symbol of the city of Brussels but also of Belgium.
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14.8 km
Dynasty Monument (Monument for the Dynasty)
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The Monument to the Dynasty is a monument in honor of King Leopold I of Belgium in the Park of Laeken in Brussels. The monument is located on Vorstenhuisplein on a hilltop 50 meters high. The monument ends the monumental axis that departs from the portal of the castle of Laeken and runs to the monument after the intersection with the Royal Parklaan via the Vorstenhuislaan.
The monument was designed by architect Louis De Curte in neo-Gothic style. It was worked on from 1878 to 1881 by order of King Leopold II. Leopold II had the monument erected in honor of the founding of the dynasty by his father, whom he had succeeded as King of the Belgians in 1865. The monument should have been completed in 1880, at the opening of the Park of Laeken on the fiftieth anniversary of the Kingdom of Belgium.
In the center of a gallery with nine bays, each symbolizing one of the former nine Belgian provinces, stands a sculpture of Leopold I. On this substructure rests an almost 50 meter high spire, crowned with a gilded crown.
Above the statues of the nine Belgian provinces, a Belgian lion always holds the coat of arms of the province in question. At the rear of the monument, on the north side, is a staircase that gives access to a circular walkway above the colonnade. This tour goes under the flying buttresses decorated with small gargoyles.
The statue of Leopold I was sculpted by Willem Geefs, who also made the statue of Leopold I on the Congress column. The statues of the provinces are each by different sculptors: Charles Brunin (Hainaut), Frans Deckers (Antwerp), Albert Desenfans (Luxembourg), Adolphe Fassin (Liège), Hendrik Pickery (West Flanders), Gérard Vander Linden (East Flanders ), Charles Van der Stappen (Brabant), Antoine van Rasbourg (Limburg) and Thomas Vinçotte (Namur).
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31.6 km
Reflecting Pool in Cinquantenaire Park
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34.0 km
Warande Park (Brussels Park)
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Those times are long gone, after many redesigns this facility (incidentally the first public park in Brussels) is now an important local recreation area in the center of Brussels. Stroll along its wide avenues and let yourself be surprised by the exciting visual axes and perspectives. Sometimes concerts are held in the music pavilion.
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34.5 km
End point
Train Station
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
16.2 km
7.13 km
3.53 km
2.44 km
2.02 km
1.97 km
1.31 km
Surfaces
16.0 km
10.7 km
3.94 km
2.73 km
841 m
382 m
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