The choir windows
Eleven soaring windows lit from inside at night.
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At night from the square when its stained glass is lit from inside — a unique sight in Brussels. By day, step in (free) for half an hour: the choir and the two baroque chapels. Visiting in early July: the Ommegang procession on the Grand-Place re-enacts its story in sixteenth-century costume.
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Notre-Dame du Sablon is Brussels' loveliest Gothic church after the cathedral, and its most elegant: built by the guild of crossbowmen in the fifteenth century in the late "Flamboyant" Gothic style, with a façade worked like lace and soaring stained-glass windows (eleven in the choir) that are lit from inside at night, turning the church into a lantern above the Sablon square. Its legend: the statue of the Virgin that a pious woman brought by boat from Antwerp in 1348 after a vision — commemorated each year by the famous "Ommegang" procession on the Grand-Place (July), one of Brussels' oldest celebrations. The interior holds two lavish baroque chapels of the Thurn und Taxis family (pioneers of the European post) in black and white marble. On the Place du Grand Sablon near the Royal Museums — free entry, and a short stop worth making on the upper-town route.
Eleven soaring windows lit from inside at night.
Black-and-white marble baroque of the postal pioneers.
The statue that came by boat in 1348 — origin of the Ommegang.
Rue de la Régence 3B, 1000 Brussels