Parc (
French
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) or Park (
Dutch) is a
Brussels Metro station
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located beneath
Brussels Park in central
Brussels, 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
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.
The station opened on 17 December 1969, as a ''
premetro'' (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
Royal Palace
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* Guenete Leul Palace
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, the
Belgian House of Parliament (Palace of the Nation), the office of the
Prime Minister of Belgium
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, the
Royal Park Theatre, and the
United States'
embassy.
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
tunnelling shield. This was done as a test; most parts of the Brussels metro having been built using
open construction methods.
References
External links
Brussels metro stations located underground
Railway stations opened in 1969
City of Brussels
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