building Berlaymont

The Berlaymont building is an office building in , Belgium, which houses the headquarters of the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union.
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  • Type: Public building
  • Description: seat of the European Commission
  • Also known as: “BERL”, “Berlaymont”, “Berlaymont building”, “Berlaymont Building”, and “Berlaymont-Gebaeude”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Europa Building and Schuman railway station.

Public building
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The is the seat of the European Council and Council of the European Union, located on the Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat in the European Quarter of , Belgium. is situated 180 metres southwest of building Berlaymont.

Railway station
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Brussels-Schuman railway station is a railway station in the , Belgium, serving the European Quarter. The station received its name from the aboveground Robert Schuman Roundabout, itself named after Robert Schuman, one of the founding fathers of the European Union, the Council of Europe and NATO. is situated 150 metres southwest of building Berlaymont.

Museum
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The is a history museum and cultural institution in , Belgium, focusing on the recent history of Europe. It is an initiative by the European Parliament, and was proposed in 2007 by the Parliament's then-president, Hans-Gert Pöttering; it opened on 6 May 2017. is situated 490 metres southwest of building Berlaymont.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include European Quarter and Squares Quarter.

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The in , is a large office area east of the center which is mostly taken up by the European Union. The district also houses the large Parc de Cinquantenaire and a beautiful, but expensive, residential area on its northern edge.

Neighborhood
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The is a quarter of , Belgium. The district is the northern spur of the European Quarter, located between and the .

Neighborhood
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The is a quarter of , Belgium. The term is sometimes confused with the European Quarter, as the area has come to be dominated by the institutions of the European Union and related organisations, although the two terms are not in fact…

building Berlaymont

Latitude
50.84362° or 50° 50′ 37″ north
Longitude
4.38242° or 4° 22′ 57″ east
Elevation
70 metres (230 feet)
Inception
1967
Height
55 metres (180 feet)
Operator
European Commission
Open location code
9F26R9VJ+CX
Open­Street­Map ID
way 117777680
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­public
Open­Street­Map feature
office=­government
Geo­Names ID
6948606
Wiki­data ID
Q821009
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“building Berlaymont” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مبنى برلايمونت”
  • Asturian: “Edificiu Berlaymont”
  • Breton: “Savadur Berlaymont”
  • Bulgarian: “Берлаймонт (сграда)”
  • Bulgarian: “Берлемон (сграда)”
  • Bulgarian: “Берлемон”
  • Catalan: “Edifici Berlaymont”
  • Chinese: “貝爾萊蒙大廈”
  • Croatian: “Palača Berlaymont”
  • Czech: “Berlaymont”
  • Danish: “Berlaymont-bygningen”
  • Danish: “Berlaymont”
  • Danish: “Berlaymontbygningen”
  • Dutch: “Berlaymont-gebouw”
  • Dutch: “Berlaymontgebouw”
  • Esperanto: “Berlaymont-konstruaĵo”
  • Esperanto: “Berlaymont”
  • Estonian: “Berlaymont”
  • Finnish: “Berlaymont”
  • French: “Bâtiment Berlaymont”
  • French: “Berlaymont”
  • Galician: “Edificio Berlaymont”
  • German: “Berlaymont-Gebäude”
  • Greek: “Μπερλεμόν”
  • Italian: “Palazzo Berlaymont”
  • Japanese: “バーレイモントビル”
  • Japanese: “ベルレモン (建物)”
  • Japanese: “ベルレモン”
  • Japanese: “ベルレモンビル”
  • Korean: “베를레몽 빌딩”
  • Limburgan: “Berlaymontgeboew”
  • Malay: “bangunan Berlaymont”
  • Malay: “Bangunan Berlaymont”
  • Malay: “Berlaymont”
  • Maltese: “Berlaymont”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Berlaymont-bygningen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Berlaymontbygningen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Berlaymont-bygningen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Berlaymontbygningen”
  • Norwegian: “Berlaymontbygningen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Edifici Berlaymont”
  • Polish: “Berlaymont”
  • Portuguese: “Edifício Berlaymont”
  • Romanian: “Clădirea berlaymont”
  • Romanian: “Clădirea Berlaymont”
  • Russian: “Штаб-квартира Европейской комиссии”
  • Slovenian: “Berlaymont”
  • Slovenian: “palača Berlaymont”
  • Slovenian: “Palača Berlaymont”
  • Slovenian: “stavba Berlaymont”
  • Spanish: “Berlaymont”
  • Spanish: “Edificio Berlaymont”
  • Spanish: “Palacio Berlaymont”
  • Swedish: “Berlaymont-byggnaden”
  • Swedish: “Berlaymont”
  • Swedish: “Berlaymontbyggnaden”
  • Swedish: “Kommissionsbyggnaden”
  • Ukrainian: “Будівля Берлемон”

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