Architecture of Belgium
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Examples of Belgian architecture include the Romanesque Collégiale Saint-Gertrude de Nivelles (1046) and Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Tournai, the Gothic 15th-century Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp and Baroque Brussels Grand Place.
Mosan Renaissance style is typical of the architecture within the Prince-Bishopric of Liège.
Famous Art Nouveau architects Victor Horta and Henry van de Velde influenced early 20th-century architecture in Belgium and abroad.
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18th century
19th century
Twentieth century
Renaat Braem, Juliaan Lampens, Léon Stynen.
- Style Beaux-Arts en Belgique
- Architecture monumentale en Belgique
- Art déco en Belgique
- Modernist architecture in Belgium
See also
- Belgian brutalism
- Belgian tourism
- Belgian culture
- List of Belgian architects
- Archibelge (2015), a television documentary on ugly Belgian architecture
- Architecture of the Netherlands
- Lintbebouwing
- Ugly Belgian Houses
- "The Ugliest Country in the World" (1968), a book-length essay by Renaat Braem
- Plannen voor plaats (2018), a documentary by Nic Balthazar and Leo Van Broeck
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