page_title: Place Royale, Brussels
section_title: Layout
hierarchical_section_title: Place Royale, Brussels / Layout
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Belgique - Bruxelles - Plan de la place Royale
context_page_description: The Place Royale or Koningsplein is a historic neoclassical square in the Royal Quarter of Brussels, Belgium. Built between 1775 and 1782 as part of an urban project including Brussels' Park, it is rectangular and symmetrical in shape and is flanked by some of the main museums in the city.
  Rue de Namur/Naamsestraat enters the square from the south, Rue de la Régence/Regentschapstraat from the southwest, and Rue Montagne de la Cour/Hofbergstraat and the Mont des Arts/Kunstberg from the northwest. It is served by Brussels Central Station, as well as by the metro stations Parc/Park and Trône/Troon.
context_section_description: The principal building on the Place Royale is the Church of St. James on Coudenberg, consecrated in 1787, and designed by Barré and Guimard. Adjacent to the Church at number 7 is situated the Constitutional Court of Belgium in the Hôtel de Coudenberg.
  On the western side of the square is the main building of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, next to the Magritte Museum while on the south-eastern side is the BELvue Museum.
  At the centre of the square is an equestrian statue of Godfrey of Bouillon, the leader of the first crusade in 1096. It was sculpted by Eugène Simonis in 1848 to replace the statue of Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine that had been melted down for the metal during the French Revolution.
caption: Plan of the Place Royale
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