The starting point of this walk evokes the spiritual and historical heritage of abbeys and religious estates that long structured the Brussels territory. Once devoted to contemplation, agriculture and the organisation of the landscape, these places bear witness to an old relationship between humans, nature and the sacred. The route links former abbey sites to the Bois de la Cambre, revealing a transitional landscape between history and nature. The Bois de la Cambre continues this history as a designed landscape, somewhere between forest and urban park.
The walk thus reads the Brussels landscape as a continuity between memory, nature and contemporary uses. It follows the landscape as a guiding thread between monastic past and contemporary public space, revealing Brussels as a territory in constant reinvention.