Nearby sights include the Collegial Church of Saint Peter and Saint Guy (Sint-Pieter En Guidokerk), for which the station was named; the Erasmus House Museum; the Old Beguinage (now community museum); and the Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, where R.S.C. Anderlecht football club play their home games.
One particular group led by General Joseph O. Shelby of Missouri, followed its cavalry flag, or guidon, south with the goal of planting an imperial colony in Mexico.
The station opened on 6 October 1982 as part of the Beekkant - Saint Guidon extension of line 1B.
Guidon holds a degree in Natural History from the University of São Paulo and a doctorate in Archaeology from the Sorbonne in Paris, France.
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Niède Guidon is the head archaeologist at the Serra da Capivara National Park in Piauí, Brazil where she and her colleagues have discovered over 800 pre-historic sites concerned with the occupation of America by human beings.