Programme
Walk
267 The avenue of splendour
[Neighbourhoods]
In 1897, Leopold II had Avenue de Tervueren laid out to link the Cinquantenaire to the royal estate of Tervuren. This royal gesture transformed a rural municipality within a few decades into a first-rate bourgeois residential district. Along the planted avenue, townhouses by leading architects appeared, including Josef Hoffmann’s famous Stoclet Palace. Flanked by Woluwe Park and Parmentier Park, both designed in the English style by French landscape architect Élie Lainé, the avenue shows how a political and infrastructural project can create a landscape of prestige from scratch and make it endure.
In collaboration with Arkadia.
Practical information
Sunday from 11:00 to 17:00
avenue de Tervueren 333, 1150 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
End point: Stoclet Palace – Avenue de Tervueren 273, 1150 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
Advance booking required.