Although from a heritage point of view the splendor Grand Place will focus all your interest Brussels visit, during your trip to belgium, I will tell you that the European cathedral also has a cathedral.
And, specifically, a Gothic cathedral which will surely catch your attention when you find yourself, especially in front of its slender west façade, the main one of the historic building.
Indeed, the Cathedral of Saint Michael and Saint Gudula you will find it not far from the aforementioned Grand Place and near the Central train station.
In my last trip to Flanders and Brussels I visited it when I was returning towards the center from Museum Hill.
Dedicated to the patrons of the city, the aforementioned San Miguel y Saint Gudula, and located in the small Treurenberg hill, cathedral of Brussels It has its origins in a collegiate church founded in the 9th century, which two centuries later was replaced by a Romanesque church.
But the current building dates back to the year 1226 when it was decided to build a Gothic collegiate church in its place, although it was not completed until 300 years later, just before the beginning of the reign of Carlos V, the king who assumed the throne of Spain.
Finally, it was quite recently that the collegiate church was converted into a cathedral.
From an architectural point of view, on the outside its west façade is the most significant, with its two 65-meter-high towers, and where the lack of a large central rose window will catch your attention.
Inside you find a central nave with large arches that separate it from the side naves. Up to 16 chapels are distributed in these.
To highlight the choir and, above all, the large stained glass windows that were made in different periods, from the 16th century to the 19th century, are distributed across the different facades of the cathedral.
Photos Brussels cathedral
Here you have more photos of the Gothic cathedral of Saint Michael and Saint Gudula in Brussels.
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