The Rue Belliard (
French) or Belliardstraat (
Dutch
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) is a major street in
Brussels
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, Belgium, running parallel to the
Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat. Both are one-way streets; where traffic in the Rue de la Loi runs in the western direction towards
Brussels' city centre, the Rue Belliard runs in the eastern direction, away from the city centre.
The street runs from the east of the
Small Ring
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(Brussels' inner ring road) to the south-western corner of the
Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark. The street has four lanes from the Small Ring to the start of the , two lanes along
Leopold Park
Leopold Park (french: Parc Léopold, ; nl, Leopoldspark) is a public park of located within the Leopold Quarter ( European Quarter) of Brussels, Belgium. It is adjacent to the Paul-Henri Spaak building, the seat of the European Parliament. I ...
and ends on one lane up to the Cinquantenaire. The section on one lane from one park to the other is partly in the territory of the municipality of
Etterbeek
Etterbeek ( French: ; Dutch: ) is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the eastern part of the region, it is bordered by the municipalities of Auderghem, the City of Brussels, Ixelles, Schaerbeek, Wolu ...
. The rest of the street is in the territory of the
City of Brussels
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.
The Rue Belliard is named after
Augustin Daniel Belliard
Augustin Daniel Belliard, comte Belliard et de l'Empire (25 May 1769 in Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée – 28 January 1832 in Brussels) was a French general.
Biography
Revolution
Belliard became an officer between 1792 and 1793 under Dumouriez i ...
, a French general who was governor of the
department of the Dyle.
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Buildings
The first part of the Rue Belliard (from the / until the /) was opened in 1855, while the second part of the street (until the Cinquantenaire) was finished in 1869.[
* No. 7: ]European Commission
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* No. 15–17: Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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* No. 25–33:
* No. 28: European Commission
* No. 40: Odas Global Consulting Ltd.
* No. 41–43: Permanent Representation of Lithuania
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to the European Union
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* No. 58: Goethe-Institut
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* No. 60–62: Permanent Representation of German State Baden-Württemberg
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to the European Union
* No. 65: Red Cross
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European Union Office
* No. 99–101: Delors building
The Jacques Delors building, at 99–101 Rue Belliard/Belliardstraat in the European Quarter of Brussels, houses the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. It sits between the Rue Belliard and Leopold Park and ...
, home of the European Economic and Social Committee
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and Committee of the Regions
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* No. 100: European Commission
* No. 135: House of European History
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(HEH) in Leopold Park
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* No. 137: Former Solvay Library in Leopold Park
* No. 199: Greenpeace
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European Union Office
See also
* List of streets in Brussels {{Short description, none
This is a list of streets in the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium:
* Boulevard Adolphe Max
* Rue d'Aerschot
* Avenue Albert
* Chaussée d'Alsemberg
* Boulevard Anspach
* Rue Antoine Dansaert
* Boulevard Auguste Reyers ...
* Brussels and the European Union
Brussels (Belgium) is considered the ''de facto'' capital of the European Union, having a long history of hosting a number of principal EU institutions within its European Quarter. The EU has no official capital but Brussels hosts the officia ...
* History of Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
* Belgium in "the long nineteenth century"
In the history of Belgium, the period from 1789 to 1914, dubbed the " long 19th century" by the historian Eric Hobsbawm, includes the end of Austrian rule and periods of French and Dutch occupation of the region, leading to the creation of the ...
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