The Université libre de Bruxelles is a French-speaking research university in Brussels, Belgium. ULB is one of the two institutions tracing their origins to the Free University of Brussels, founded in 1834 by the lawyer and liberal politician Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen.
The Free University, then housed in the Granvelle Palace, c. 1900
The university's football team that won the bronze medal at the 1900 Olympic Games
The main building on the Solbosch campus, located in the City of Brussels close to Ixelles
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Ixelles or Elsene is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located to the south-east of Brussels' city centre, it is geographically bisected by the City of Brussels. It is also bordered by the municipalities of Auderghem, Etterbeek, Forest, Uccle, Saint-Gilles and Watermael-Boitsfort.
Ixelles' Municipal Hall seen from the Place Fernand Cocq/Fernand Cocqplein
La Cambre Abbey, founded in 1201
The Namur Gate and the Chaussée d'Ixelles/Elsensesteenweg, c. 1900
View from the cour d'honneur (main courtyard) of La Cambre Abbey, located in the City of Brussels close to Ixelles