Robert Schuman Roundabout
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Location | City of Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium |
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Quarter | Leopold Quarter |
Coordinates | 50°50′33″N 04°23′02″E / 50.84250°N 4.38389°E |
The Robert Schuman Roundabout (
Brussels-Schuman railway station
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Location and buildings
The Robert Schuman Roundabout is in the centre of Brussels' European Quarter. The major buildings next to it are the Berlaymont building (headquarters of the European Commission), and the Justus Lipsius building (used to hold low-level meetings of the Council of the European Union and provide office space to the Council's Secretariat) and numerous other EU offices.
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The Berlaymont building, primary headquarters of the European Commission
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The Capital (Atelier d'architecture de Genval, 2001–2009)
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Building (Varlet, 1928)
Accessibility and future
The roundabout is above the eastern end of the metro segment of
Roads meeting at the roundabout
- The Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat runs west–north–west towards the centre of Brussels, one-way. It also continues east–south–east for a short distance towards the western end of the Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark. The bulk of the traffic on this main carriageway avoids the roundabout by taking the tunnel underneath, the road becoming the Avenue de Tervueren/Tervurenlaan and heading out of Brussels east/east–south–east towards Woluwe-Saint-Pierre and eventually Tervuren.
- The Avenue de Cortenbergh/Kortenberglaan leads north–east towards Schaerbeek and the Place de Jamblinne de Meux/De Jamblinne de Meuxplein. The Rue Belliard/Belliardstraat tunnel also follows this route, leading out towards Diamant premetro station and the E40.
- The Rue Archimède/Archimedestraat leads north towards the Square Ambiorix/Ambiorixsquare.
- The Avenue d'Auderghem/Oudergemselaan runs south–east through the middle of Etterbeek, towards the La Chasse junction and Auderghem.
- The Rue Froissart/Froissartstraat is one of the smaller roads leaving the roundabout, heading towards the Place Jourdan/Jourdanplein.
See also
- History of Brussels
- Belgium in the long nineteenth century
References
- ^ "Réaménagement du rond-point Schuman". Beliris (in French). Retrieved 19 November 2022.
- ^ "Le rond-point Schuman transformé en place urbaine quasi sans voiture, Etterbeek envisage un recours". RTBF (in French). Retrieved 19 November 2022.
External links
- Media related to Place Robert Schuman/Schumanplein, Brussels at Wikimedia Commons