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Breydel building

The Breydel building is an office block in the European Quarter of , Belgium, which served as a temporary headquarters for the European Commission between 1991 and 2004.
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  • Type: Commercial building
  • Description: building in Brussels, Belgium
  • Also known as: “BREY” and “Breydelgebouw”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Europa Building and building Berlaymont.

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 370 metres northwest of Breydel building.

Public building
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The Berlaymont building is an office building in , Belgium, which houses the headquarters of the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union. is situated 410 metres north of Breydel building.

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 410 metres west of Breydel building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include European Quarter and Etterbeek.

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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.

Town
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is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the eastern part of the region, it is bordered by the municipalities of , the , , , and .

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 .

Breydel building

Latitude
50.84012° or 50° 50′ 24″ north
Longitude
4.38442° or 4° 23′ 4″ east
Operator
European Commission
Open location code
9F26R9RM+2Q
Open­Street­Map ID
way 547252045
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­commercial
Wiki­data ID
Q15204688
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Breydel building” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Breydelgebouw”
  • Arabic: “مبنى بريديل”
  • Asturian: “Breydelgebouw”
  • Catalan: “Breydelgebouw”
  • Croatian: “Breydelgebouw”
  • Croatian: “Palača Breydel”
  • Danish: “Breydelgebouw”
  • Dutch: “Breydelgebouw”
  • Finnish: “Breydel”
  • Finnish: “Breydelgebouw”
  • French: “Breydelgebouw”
  • German: “Breydelgebouw”
  • Irish: “Breydelgebouw”
  • Italian: “Breydelgebouw”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Breydelgebouw”
  • Portuguese: “Breydelgebouw”
  • Romanian: “Breydelgebouw”
  • Sardinian: “Breydelgebouw”
  • Spanish: “Breydelgebouw”
  • Swedish: “Breydelgebouw”
  • Welsh: “Breydelgebouw”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Breydel building”. Photo: JLogan, CC BY-SA 3.0.