The Cinquantenaire Park

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The Parc du Cinquantenaire
“The Cinquantenaire Park” or “Parc du Cinquantenaire” in French stands for "Park of the Fiftieth Anniversary")
“Het Jubelpark” in Dutch for "Jubilee Park", is a large public, urban park of 30 ha (74 acres) in the easternmost part of the European Quarter in Brussels, Belgium.

And as you can see, we come here just one day before the start of the 20 km run of Brussels, which is on May 29. It’s an annual run with about 30,000 participants.
Most buildings of the U-shaped complex which dominate the park were commissioned by the Belgian Government under the patronage of King Leopold II for the 1880 National Exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Belgian Revolution. During successive exhibitions in the same area, more structures were added. The centrepiece is the memorial arch, known as the Cinquantenaire Arch (French: Arc du Cinquantenaire, Dutch: Triomfboog van het Jubelpark), was erected in 1905, replacing a previous temporary version of the arcade by Gédéon Bordiau. The structures were built in iron, glass and stone, symbolising Belgium's economic and industrial performance. The surrounding 30 ha (74 acres) park esplanade was full of picturesque gardens, ponds and waterfalls. It housed several trade fairs, exhibitions and festivals at the beginning of the century. In 1930, the government decided to reserve the Cinquantenaire for use as a leisure park.
Today, the various buildings of the Cinquantenaire host three museums—the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and of Military History, the Art & History Museum and Autoworld, as well as the Great Mosque of Brussels. The surrounding park esplanade is used for several purposes in the summer, such as military parades and drive in movies.
The Royal Military Museum has been the sole tenant of the northern half of the complex since 1880.
The southern half is occupied by the Art & History Museum and Autoworld vintage car museum. The Temple of Human Passions by Victor Horta, a remainder from 1886, the Monument to the Belgian Pioneers in Congo from 1921, and the Great Mosque of Brussels from 1978, are located in the north-western corner of the park.
Line 1 of the Brussels Metro and the Belliard Tunnel from the Rue de la Loi / Wetstraat pass underneath the park, the latter partly in an open section in front of the arch. The nearest metro stations are Schuman to the west of the park, and Merode immediately to the east.
Originally, the area now known as the Cinquantenaire was part of the military exercise ground outside of the city centre, the so-called "Linthout" plains. For the National Exhibition of 1880, the plain was developed as an exhibition centre. The original pavilions of the 1880 exhibition, designed by the architect Gédéon Bordiau , were largely replaced with the arcade designed by Charles Girault in 1904 and the large halls on both sides. Only the glass-constructed Bordiau halls remain from the 1880 structures.
The Cinquantenaire Arcade was planned for the exhibition of 1880 and was meant to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Belgium Revolution. In 1880, only the bases of the memorial arch’s columns were completed, and during the exhibition, the rest of the arch was constructed from wooden panels.
In the following years, the completion of the monument was the topic of a continuous battle between King Leopold II and the Belgian Government, which did not want to spend the money required to complete it. The park was also the site of the Brussels International Exposition (1897) , for which the building wings were extended, although the arch was still incomplete.
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