Guided tour : Art Nouveau in the streets of Saint-Gilles

The Belle Epoque is marked by industrial inventions, technical progress and innovative artistic movements. At the same time, Belgium rose to third place among European powers.Hence the birth of industrial, merchant and bourgeois fortunes who will turn to daring architects to break the codes of their residences.

Saint-Gilles was urbanized during the Belle Époque, at the very time when art nouveau flourished. Via the ornaments, the exterior decoration, the sgraffito… the facade becomes a vector of messages. Like the return to nature, regularly personified by female figures.

This and other issues will be discussed on this tour of Saint-Gilles, which still houses art nouveau buildings, whose architecture also tells the story of history.

Meeting point: hall of metro station Horta, on April 11th at 10am.

10€ per person

More info and registration: info@91parallele.be

• Deze rondleiding is ook beschikbaar in het Nederlands op 21 maart om 14uur.
• Cette visite se donne aussi en français le 26 avril à 14h.