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Parc (
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) or Park ( Dutch) is a
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located beneath Brussels Park in central
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, Belgium. It has one entrance, at the intersection of the Rue Royale/Koningsstraat and the Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat, two of the main roads of the City of Brussels. The station opened on 17 December 1969, as a ''
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'' (underground tram) station on the tram line between De Brouckère and
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, and became a heavy metro station on 20 September 1976, serving former lines 1A and 1B. Following the reorganisation of the Brussels Metro on 4 April 2009, it is served by lines 1 and 5, which cross Brussels from east to west. Several places of interest other than the park itself lie near this station: the
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, the Belgian House of Parliament (Palace of the Nation), the office of the
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, the Royal Park Theatre, and the
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History

When the station was first built, there was a plan to eventually construct a connecting line along the route of the Rue Royale/Koningsstraat. To provide for this line, a much larger underground space was excavated than necessary for a simple station. The Rue Royale line was quickly cancelled, and the underground chambers intended for it now house the Brussels metro's traffic control centre. The tunnel between Parc/Park and Arts-Loi/Kunst-Wet stations was the first section of the Brussels metro system to be built using a
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. This was done as a test; most parts of the Brussels metro having been built using
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construction methods.


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Brussels metro stations located underground Railway stations opened in 1969 City of Brussels {{Brussels-metro-stub