Beneath Brussels flows an invisible landscape: that of the Senne, the Maelbeek and the buried rivers. These waterways structured the urban landscape before being covered over by urbanisation. Today they are invisible, but they remain present in the memory of the territory and in its topography.
This route reveals a hidden landscape in which water continues to shape the city in depth. The Senne and the Maelbeek also tell the story of urban transformations. Before being channelled, covered or diverted, these rivers drew the landscape, shaped valleys, influenced human settlement and organised everyday life in the city. Industrialisation, modernisation, sanitation and territorial redevelopment gradually covered these waterways, profoundly changing the relationship between city and nature.
This itinerary rediscovers Brussels through the memory of its water.