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unusual facts about Grand Place



Adèle Kindt

Her Épisode des journées de septembre 1830, portraying a scene from the Belgian Revolution of 1830, is considered her masterpiece and is on display in the Brussels city museum on the Grand Place

Altran Foundation for Innovation

These include the 150 statues of the Brussels Grand Place’s façade, the great door of Milan Cathedral, Munich Frauenkirche cathedral and the statues of Valentine of Milan and Laura de Noves in the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris...

Frans Anneessens

He was decapitated on the Grand Place in Brussels, because of his involvement with uprisings within the Austrian Netherlands.


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Godiva Chocolatier

Godiva was founded in 1926 in Brussels, Belgium, by Joseph Draps who opened his first boutique in the Grand Place in Brussels under its present name, in honour of the legend of Lady Godiva.