Ixelles ponds

Belgium / Brussel / Brussels /
 park, green area
The Ixelles Ponds (in French: Étangs d'Ixelles, in Dutch: Vijvers van Elsene) are two freshwater ponds in the Brussels municipality of Ixelles. The ponds we see today are those spared by a 19th-century campaign of drying the wetlands of the Maalbeek valley between the Abbey of La Cambre and Flagey Square.

The two long and narrow ponds, whose total lengths are approximately 700 metres (2,200 feet), and widths are approximately 50 metres (170 feet), are aligned on a roughly North-South axis and are separated by a narrow strip of land. With the surrounding park, the Ixelles Ponds are the tip of a long strip of almost uninterrupted greenery reaching all the way from the Sonian Forest deep into the urban tissue of Brussels.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixelles_Ponds
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Coordinates:   50°49'26"N   4°22'22"E

Comments

  • Not a must indeed but so charming under sunset. There s also the "abbaye de la cambre" at the end of the lakes when you come from the center. Very nice.
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