History of a street · 1000 Brussels

Square des Nations

In Dutch: Natiënsquare

Square des Nations, in Brussels, has 24 buildings on the Atlas map, for 24 addresses. It was mostly built between 1990 and 2009: 67% 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 – 19690
1970 – 19895
1990 – 200916
since 20103

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: Belgian state
Named in: 1935

Le square doit son nom à l'Exposition de 1910 qui s'était déroulée sur le site où se trouve le square. Cette exposition avait comme objectif d'exhiber les avancées commerciales, industrielles et coloniales de la Belgique. Dénomination 1935? (remark in French, as published)

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

Further reading: City of Brussels Archives