Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert
The Galeries Royales Saint- Hubert ( Dutch: Sint- Hubertusgalerij, also Koninginnegalerij or Galerie de la Reine ) is a shopping arcade in Brussels. The passage was opened in 1847 along with the passage in Saint Petersburg ( opened in 1848 ) and the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan (opened 1867) large influence on the subsequent design of shopping malls.
Description
The 213 meter long structure consists of a long corridor with two upper floors with a slightly curved glass roof in a cast iron frame. In the passage pilasters separate the windows of individual shops. The entire structure is held in a Italianate Cinquecento style. The two uniform facades vaguely reminiscent of Giorgio Vasari narrow street -like courtyard in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, showing the motto Omnibus omnia ( Everything for all ).
The idea goes back to the 1811 -born Dutch architect Jean -Pierre Cluysenaar, who had set itself the goal of the densely built and poorly lit downtown section of Brussels, between the grass market ( Marché aux Herbes ) and the Kruidtuinberg ( Montagne aux Herbes Potagères ) by a road to replace and so to entice higher walks of life in the area.
Together with the banker Jean -André Demot he founded in the summer of 1836 but the " Société des Galeries Saint- Hubert", the two required further nine years to resolve all property and housing rights in the area. Construction began on 6 May 1846 and lasted until 20 June 1847 when King Leopold I and his sons opened the passage.
The passage drew from the start of luxury shops, the Brussels gave the feel of a European city. In her well-lit interior in Brussels rainy maritime climate, it was possible to sit in sidewalk cafes. On March 1, 1896, the Lumière brothers showed their first movies here.
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Passage du Nord
A further, but smaller and later built shopping mall, is the Built in 1874 Passage du Nord ( → Lage50.8518714.354265 ). The approximately 70 m position Passage keeps architektotisch to its bigger brother, the Galeries Royales Saint- Hubert.