The antiques market
Red-and-green tents of books, silver and ceramics at weekends.
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The Grand-Place is the gilded, crowded tourist icon; the Grand Sablon is the elegant square of the Bruxellois — quieter, more refined, pricier. Visit both: the Grand-Place for awe, the Sablon for coffee, chocolate and weekend antiques. Ten minutes apart on foot via Mont des Arts.
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The Grand Sablon is Brussels' most refined square: an elegant sloping piazza ringed by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century houses turned antique shops, galleries and the city's finest chocolatiers — Wittamer, Marcolini (the flagship), Neuhaus, Godiva. The whole quarter breathes taste and lavish calm, minutes from the din of the Grand-Place. At weekends the square fills with the famous antiques market (Saturday and Sunday mornings) under red-and-green tents — old books, silver, ceramics, paintings. Overlooking it is the imposing Gothic church of Notre-Dame du Sablon, and opposite lies the small Petit Sablon garden, its railing adorned with 48 bronze statues of Brussels' old guilds. Free and near the Royal Museums and the Palace of Justice — the loveliest coffee-and-chocolate break on the upper town's cultural route.
Red-and-green tents of books, silver and ceramics at weekends.
A small garden railed by 48 statues of Brussels' guilds.
The flagship luxury chocolate shops.
Place du Grand Sablon, 1000 Brussels