The European commission & neighborhood

Last stop at the European Commission building, the one that is most frequently shown on the news and on TV.

A short distance away, also in the European Quarter, there is the triumphal arch of the Parc du Cinquantenaire.
The arch was built in 1905 and most of the buildings arranged in a horseshoe were built by Leopold II to celebrate colonial Belgium on the occasion of the 1880 Expo.Read more