History of a street · 1170 Watermael-Boitsfort

Avenue Calypso

In Dutch: Calypsolaan

Avenue Calypso, in Watermael-Boitsfort, has 27 buildings on the Atlas map, for 27 addresses. It was mostly built between 1970 and 1989: 74% of its buildings appear in that period.

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When the street was built

  • before 14000
  • 1400 – 15990
  • 1600 – 16990
  • 1700 – 17990
  • 1800 – 18490
  • 1850 – 18790
  • 1880 – 19130
  • 1914 – 19440
  • 1945 – 19691
  • 1970 – 198920
  • 1990 – 20095
  • since 20101

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 6: 1964.

Today's buildings, grouped by the period when the Atlas map first shows building on their plot. Approximate reconstruction.

Where its name comes from

Kind of name
Symbolic name
Theme
Nature
Named in
1959

Calypso est une nymphe dans la mythologie grecque, fille du Dieu Atlas. (remark in French, as published)

Source: Odoniris, database of Brussels street names (EBxl), CC BY-SA 4.0.