Catatan perjalanan di Belgium - Brussels City

18th November 2008

Pagi ni kami bersarapan roti with sambal & serunding dan leftovers roasted chicken dinner last nite. Check out by 9am. Kami ronda2 keliling Brussels City dengan kereta sahaja. We then stop by at the Palace of Brussels to take some photos. Opposite the palace is the Royal Park. Some info about the palace :
The Royal Palace of Belgium is one of the most beautiful official buildings in the capital, Brussels.Standing opposite the Parliament building on the other side of the Royal Park, the Royal Palace symbolises our system of government, that is to say, a constitutional monarchy. The Palace is the place where His Majesty the King exercises his prerogatives as Head of State. It is at the Palace that the King grants audiences and deals with affairs of state. Apart from the offices of the King and the Queen, the Royal Palace houses the services of the Grand Marshal of the Court, the King's Head of Cabinet, the Head of the King's Military Household and the Intendant of the King's Civil List. The Palace also includes the State Rooms where large receptions are held, as well as the apartments provided for foreign Heads of State during official visits.On the initiative of Her Majesty the Queen and through the good offices of the government's building agency "Régie des Bâtiments - Regie der Gebouwen", three contemporary works of art were installed in the Royal Palace in October 2002.

Royal Palace of Brussels
The park

Photo taken at the opposite road of the apartment

We did not stop at the Green House. Info on the green house :

In 1873, architect Alphonse Balat designed for King Leopold II a complex of greenhouses which complement the castle of Laeken, built in the classical style. The complex has the appearance of a glass city set in an undulating landscape. The monumental pavilions, glass cupolas, wide arcades that cross the site like covered streets, are much more than an anecdote on the architectural applications of iron and glass or on little greenhouses of exotic plants. What the Royal Greenhouses express concerns architecture and, specifically, a major construction programme: the "Ideal Glass Palace".

Each year, in the spring, the Greenhouses of Laeken are opened to the public, during almost three weeks. This tradition has been carried on for a century.

We pass thru the Royal Square and few churches on our way to the Grand Place