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| City: | Brussels |
| Country: | Belgium  |
| Latitude: | 50° 50' 0'' N |
| Longitude: | 4° 20' 0'' E |
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Brussels, Belgium
Galeries de la Reine - Shopping and relaxing
The Koninklijke Sint-Hubertus galerijen (Dutch) or Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (French) is a glazed shopping arcade in Brussels that preceded other famous 19th-century shopping arcades such as the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan and The Passage in St Petersburg. Like them it has twin regular façades with distant origins in Vasari's long narrow street-like courtyard of the Uffizi, Florence, with glazed arcaded shopfronts separated by pilasters and two upper floors, all in an Italianate Cinquecento style, under an arched glass-paned roof with a delicate cast-iron framework. The gallery consists of two major sections, each more than 100 meters in length (respectively called Galerie du Roi / Koningsgalerij, meaning King's Gallery, and Galerie de la Reine / Koninginnegalerij, meaning Queen's Gallery), and a smaller side gallery (Galerie des Princes / Prinsengalerij, meaning Gallery of the Princes). The main sections (King and Queen's Gallery) are separated by a colonnade at the point where the Rue des Bouchers / Beenhouwersstraat crosses the gallery complex.
The Koninklijke Sint-Hubertus galerijen (Dutch) or Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (French) is a glazed shopping arcade in Brussels that preceded other famous 19th-century shopping arcades such as the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan and The Passage in St Petersburg. Like them it has twin regular façades with distant origins in Vasari's long narrow street-like courtyard of the Uffizi, Florence, with glazed arcaded shopfronts separated by pilasters and two upper floors, all in an Italianate Cinquecento style, under an arched glass-paned roof with a delicate cast-iron framework. The gallery consists of two major sections, each more than 100 meters in length (respectively called Galerie du Roi / Koningsgalerij, meaning King's Gallery, and Galerie de la Reine / Koninginnegalerij, meaning Queen's Gallery), and a smaller side gallery (Galerie des Princes / Prinsengalerij, meaning Gallery of the Princes). The main sections (King and Queen's Gallery) are separated by a colonnade at the point where the Rue des Bouchers / Beenhouwersstraat crosses the gallery complex.
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Excellent perspective in curve. Thank you for the extensive explanation
# posted by A.Miguel Oliveira on June 14th, 2008 8:28 pm
Beautiful compo, details and light contrast! (no problems here with the lense;))! Great! 5
# posted by vitor costa on June 14th, 2008 8:12 pm
very good 5
# posted by Olga Mallol Giralt on June 14th, 2008 8:00 pm
Excellent - 5
La reine doit être heureuse d'avoir des galeries aussi belles... et quelle belle photo Jackfre! 5
# posted by Els van Heel on June 13th, 2008 1:48 pm
Nice to be there with a charming ambiance !! Nice vieuw with much perspetive !! 5
I see it in large and it´s super beautiful! Love it. 5
# posted by Ana Helena on June 12th, 2008 11:21 pm
Excellent pic ! 5
I wish I could go there and do some shopping instead of being at the PC all the time :))
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# posted by trudy tuinstra on June 12th, 2008 8:08 pm
great point of view. 5
Good shot ... -5-
Great perspective. 5
excellent perspective and scene 5
# posted by Jan Hemels on June 12th, 2008 1:46 pm
Excellent picture, Good you made a close up of the coffeeshop and around the corner In the Beenhouwersstraat you can eat superb Mussels and Flemish Frites, delicious !! -5+
nice light
beautiful shot:)
excellent view ; a good place to read newspaper as the man on the right :)
very good !5
Great place to be and to to spend some money! Great interior! -5-
Wonderful place and beautiful scene. 5
# posted by paulo.trindade on June 12th, 2008 12:44 am
..congratulations...5
# posted by José A. Soares on June 12th, 2008 12:44 am
Good shot. 5
# posted by Luis Borges Alves on June 12th, 2008 12:38 am
Amazing ! Beautiful photo! 5
Excelent perspective!
how much a black coffee there? tres beau 5
# posted by Ana Afonso on June 11th, 2008 11:49 pm
Quelle bonne ambiance! 5
# posted by Karl-Ivar Ingebrigtsen on June 11th, 2008 11:37 pm
Excellent! 5
fantastic in every way! The perspectives continuing through the arch, architecture .... excellent!