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Coudenberg-Former Palace of Brussels
Address:
Place des Palais 7
1000 Brussels
Phone: +32 (0)70 22 04 92
Fax: +32 (0)2 502 46 23
E-mail: info@coudenberg.com
Website: http://www.coudenberg.com
Open: From Tuesday to Friday, from 10am to 5pm. Saturday and Sunday, from 10am to 6pm).
Closed: January 1 and December 25
Price: between 3 € and 5 € (+BELvue from 5 € till 8 €). Free for -18 year-olds.
Visits: http://www.coudenberg.com/en/prepare-your-visit/guided-visits
Services: letting of the site, partially accessible to disabled persons
Facilities: restaurant (Green Attitude) - cafeteria - giftshop
Accessibility: Train : Bruxelles Central station - Metro : Parc / Trône / Porte de Namur / Gare Centrale - Tram 92 94 - Bus 27 38 71 95
Collection: Once a seat of power for more than six centuries, now an important archaeological site.
Description: An underground tour discovering the remains of the Palace of Charles V.
From the middle ages, a castle overlooked Brussels from Coudenberg hill. From the 12th century, the successive monarchs and their representatives transformed a small fortified castle into a sumptuous residential palace, one of the most beautiful palaces of Europe and one of Charles V's main residences.
This prestigious building is severely damaged by fire in 1731. Some forty years later, the ruins of the palace are pulled down and the ground flattened out for the construction of the new royal district. The remains of this palace make up the Coudenberg archaeological site. During your visit, you will discover the Rue Isabelle and the old structures of the main buildings of the former palace of Brussels, which are now the foundations for today's royal district and the Hoogstraeten House where the most interesting discoveries made during the various archaeological excavations conducted on the Coudenberg are displayed.
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