The Place Anneessens (French) or Anneessensplein (Dutch) is a square in central Brussels, Belgium. It is named in honour of François Anneessens, dean of the Nation of St. Christopher, who was beheaded on the Grand-Place/Grote Markt during a period of uprisings within the Austrian Netherlands.
Haute École Francisco Ferrer and Monument to François Anneessens on the Place Anneessens/Anneessensplein
Monument to François-Anneessens (Vinçotte, 1889)
Former Municipal School no. 13, now the Haute École Francisco Ferrer
View towards the Boulevard Maurice Lemonnier/Maurice Lemonnierlaan
The City of Brussels is the largest municipality and historical centre of the Brussels-Capital Region, as well as the capital of the Flemish Region and Belgium. The City of Brussels is also the administrative centre of the European Union, as it hosts a number of principal EU institutions in its European Quarter.
Panorama of the city centre from the Mont des Arts/Kunstberg
Engraving of Brussels from c. 1610
Manneken Pis
Brussels' Town Hall