The () or (
Dutch), meaning "New Street", is a
pedestrian street in central
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. It runs between the
Place de la Monnaie/Muntplein to the south and the
Place Charles Rogier/Karel Rogierplein to the north.
The Rue Neuve and its close surroundings are the second most popular shopping area in Belgium by number of shoppers, after
Meir in
Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504, . It is served by the
metro
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Geography
* Metro (city), a city in Indonesia
* A metropolitan area, the populated region including and surrounding an urban center
Public transport
* Rapid transit, a passenger railway in an urba ...
and ''
premetro'' (underground tram) stations
De Brouckère (on lines
1,
3,
4 and
5) and
Rogier
Rogier may refer to:
Given name
Rogier is a Dutch masculine given name equivalent to Roger. People with this name include:
* Rogier van Aerde, pseudonym of Adolf Josef Hubert Frans van Rijen (1917–2007), Dutch writer and journalist
*Rogier Bli ...
(on lines
2, 3, 4 and
6).
History
The street used to be called the /, after the Church of Our Lady of Finistere, which is now in the middle of the retail district. It has been a centre of commercial activity since at least the end of the 19th century, and was known as a centre of luxury shopping in the early 20th century. The street was pedestrianised in 1975.
Nowadays, the Rue Neuve has the second highest rents of any street in Belgium, at €1,600/square metre/year (the
Meir shopping street in Antwerp ranks first, with €1,700/square metre/year). However, it has been criticised by some for being too "boring" architecturally, uniformly "mass market", lacking in independent retailers, without variety of uses, and with very few residents.
[ The ]City of Brussels
The City of Brussels (french: Ville de Bruxelles or alternatively ''Bruxelles-Ville'' ; nl, Stad Brussel or ''Brussel-Stad'') is the largest municipality and historical City centre, centre of the Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, as well a ...
has plans to bring more residents to the street and to make it more "attractive".
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 ...
* 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 ...
References
Notes
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City of Brussels
19th century in Brussels
Shopping districts and streets in Belgium
Pedestrian malls in Belgium
Car-free zones in Europe