Sint-Anna-Pede is a village in

Itterbeek Itterbeek is a historical village in the province of Flemish Brabant, Belgium, and since 1977 a submunicipality of Dilbeek. Toponymy The village derives its name from the Indo-European words 'eud-' (water) en 'baki' (stream). One of the firs ...

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Dilbeek Dilbeek () is a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the Provinces of Belgium, province of Flemish Brabant, in the Flemish region of Belgium. The municipality comprises the villages of Dilbeek proper, Groot-Bijgaarden, Itterbeek (with Sint-A ...

. It gets its name from the Pedebeek, the stream that flows through the village.Text on the Sint-Anna Church and the village, in Dutch Sint-Anna-Pede was already mentioned in the first half of the 12th century as "Pethe"; later also as "capelle beatissima Anna in Peda" and as "apud Pede juxta nova capella", which means that there was possibly an older building at the same site.

Attractions

* St. Anna's Church : a 13th-century Roman church, restored in the 17th century in the Gothic style. It is depicted in ''

The Blind Leading the Blind ''The Blind Leading the Blind'', ''Blind'', or ''The Parable of the Blind'' () is a painting by the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, completed in 1568. Executed in Glue-size, d ...

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder ( , ; ; – 9 September 1569) was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaking, printmaker, known for his landscape art, landscape ...

. It has had protected status since 1948.Website of tourist board of Dilbeek, in Dutch * the Bruegel Museum: twelve large reproductions of landscapes by Pieter Bruegel, who came to the area looking for inspiration. * the Zeventien bruggen (''Seventeen bridges''): a concrete viaduct of 520 m long and 28 m high across the valley of the Pedebeek. Sixteen of the bridges are part of the viaduct, while the seventeenth bridge lies under one of the arches. * the Klein Sint-Anna-kasteeltje (''Small Saint-Anna Castle''): a castle where, according to legend, Charles V of Spain, Bruegel and

Louis XIV of France LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great () or the Sun King (), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the List of longest-reign ...

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, 1568 File:Le café de Pede Ste-Anne, Léon van Dievoet,19.9.1936 (269 x 173 mm).jpg, The old café at Sint-Anna-Pede, drawing by Léon van Dievoet, 1936

References

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