9 Sights in Ixelles - Elsene, Belgium (with Map and Images)

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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Ixelles - Elsene, Belgium! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Ixelles - Elsene. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.

Sightseeing Tours in Ixelles - Elsene

1. Hôtel Tassel

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The Hôtel Tassel is a historic town house in Brussels, Belgium. It was designed by Victor Horta for the scientist and professor Emile Tassel, and built between 1892 and 1893, in Art Nouveau style. It is considered one of the first buildings in that style because of its highly innovative plan and its ground-breaking use of materials and decoration. It is located at 6, rue Paul-Emile Janson/Paul-Emile Jansonstraat, a few steps from the Avenue Louise/Louizalaan.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Tassel (EN), Heritage Website

2. Horta Museum

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Horta Museum Paul Louis / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Horta Museum is a museum in Brussels, Belgium, dedicated to the life and work of the architect Victor Horta and his time. The museum is housed in Horta's former town house and workshop, built between 1898 and 1901, in Art Nouveau style. It is located at 23–25, rue Américaine/Amerikaansestraat in the municipality of Saint-Gilles.

Wikipedia: Horta Museum (EN), Website

3. Hôtel Solvay

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Hôtel Solvay François BERNARDIN / CC BY 3.0

The Hôtel Solvay is a large historic town house in Brussels, Belgium. It was designed by Victor Horta for Armand Solvay, the son of the chemist and industrialist Ernest Solvay, and built between 1895 and 1900, in Art Nouveau style. It is located at 224, avenue Louise/Louizalaan, not far from the Hôtel Max Hallet, another remarkable Art Nouveau building by Horta.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Solvay (EN), Website, Heritage Website

4. Hôtel Hannon

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The Hôtel Hannon is a historic town house in Brussels, Belgium. Constructed between 1903 and 1904, in Art Nouveau style, for the industrialist Édouard Hannon, it is the only house in that style designed by the architect Jules Brunfaut.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Hannon (EN), Heritage Website

5. Parc Pierre Paulus - Pierre Pauluspark

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The Pierre Paulus Park or Pieter Paulus van Parma park is a public park in Saint-Gilles in the Brussels-Capital Region. The 1.2-hectare park is located between Rue Parma and Rue de la Monnaie and is managed by the municipality of Saint-Gilles The park is named after the Belgian expressionist painter Baron Pierre Paulus.

Wikipedia: Pierre Pauluspark (NL)

6. Parc Régional Abbé Froidure - Gewestelijk Park Abt Froidure

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Parc Régional Abbé Froidure - Gewestelijk Park Abt Froidure

The Abbot Froidure Regional Park, also known as Abbot Froidure Park or Venerable Froidure Park, is a small public park garden located on the territory of Forest and Ixelles in the Brussels-Capital Region.

Wikipedia: Abt Froidurepark (NL)

7. Église Sainte-Croix - Heilig-Kruiskerk

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The Church of the Holy Cross is a Roman Catholic church located on the Place Sainte-Croix in Ixelles, Brussels. Built in the middle of the nineteenth century near the ponds and the Place Flagey, the church is in Art Deco style for the exterior and neo-Gothic style for the interior but in Art Deco style for several parts of the furniture including the confessionals and the side altars of the ambulatory.

Wikipedia: Église Sainte-Croix (Ixelles) (FR)

8. Église de la Sainte-Trinité - Heilige Drievuldigheidskerk

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The Church of the Holy Trinity is a nineteenth-century religious building located in Ixelles, in the municipality of Brussels (Belgium). Its façade is that of the old Augustinian church, demolished in 1893 to make way for the creation of the Place de Brouckère. It is a Catholic parish church.

Wikipedia: Église de la Sainte-Trinité (Bruxelles) (FR)

9. Musée d'Ixelles - Museum van Elsene

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The Municipal Museum of Fine Arts in Ixelles presents a vast panorama of Belgian art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its collections bring together paintings, sculptures, drawings representing the different artistic currents of this period: realism, impressionism, luminism, neo-impressionism and symbolism for the nineteenth century and, closer to us, fauvism, expressionism, cubism, surrealism, constructed and lyrical abstraction as well as the main current trends. A sample of Flemish teachers and a few representatives of foreign schools complete this collection. A collection of posters as well, including the most exhaustive set of Toulouse-Lautrec posters in the world.

Wikipedia: Musée communal des Beaux-Arts d'Ixelles (FR), Website

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