History of a street · 1070 Anderlecht

Avenue de Saïo

In Dutch: Saïolaan

Avenue de Saïo, in Anderlecht, has 17 buildings on the Atlas map, for 19 addresses. It was mostly built between 1945 and 1969: 65% 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 – 196911
  • 1970 – 19895
  • 1990 – 20091
  • since 20100

No building in the street is dated by the heritage inventory: the years are estimates by district.

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
Commemorative name
Theme
Foreign relations
Named in
1959

Lieu d'Abyssinie (Empire d'Ethiopie) où les troupes congolaises de l'empire colonial belge (Force Publique) l'emportèrent sur les troupes mussoliniennes en 1941. Ex. avenue de la Pede (remark in French, as published)

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