Wonders of the squares district

At the end of the 19th century, the Maelbeek valley provided a unique setting for the establishment of a new residential neighborhood. A true laboratory of fin-de-siècle architecture, this neighborhood is designed as an urban theater where water, greenery, and public art occupy a decisive place and where facades of the most diverse styles unfold, between unbridled eclecticism and Art Nouveau, then at its peak.