Chapelier rue Haute, at the corner of rue de épée The Miggerode store was one of the oldest stores on rue Haute. They only sold caps and hats there. The whole neighborhood bought their caps there. In this store there was a huge choice. The rays went almost to the ceiling. The boss still had a Borsalino on his head.
THE HOUSE
Golden Twenties house, sponsored by the famous hatter Louis MIGGERODE and located in the Rouppe district of Brussels, a stone's throw from the famous restaurant "Comme chez Soi" and the Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege
THE DISTRICT
THE STREET
The eastern part was formerly called Vuylstraete or 't Radeken, after an inn there at the 15th century, on the corner with the Huidevettersstraat. The western part was only built in 1873, at the location of a corridor, the so-called Longue Allée, which previously ended on the Senne.
The restaurant was founded in 1926 by Georges Cuvelier, originally a coal miner from the Belgian Borinage region. In the 1930s, it moved to its present location, an art nouveau house at Place Rouppe in Brussels, where it obtained its first Michelin star in 1953. In 2006, chef and owner Pierre Wynants announced he would step down in favour of his son-in-law Lionel Rigolet, which receive the Gault Millau's Belgian Chef of the Year 2007 award and 2 stars by the Michelin Red Guide.
The Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege is a Catholic Dutch-speaking secondary education institution located rue des Ursulines 4 in Brussels, near the Notre-Dame de la Chapelle church and the Brussels train station -Chapel. Chronologically second Jesuit college in Brussels, it was founded under the name of Collège Saint-Michel in 1835, shortly after the return of the Jesuits to a newly independent Belgium.
The restaurant was founded in 1926 by Georges Cuvelier, originally a coal miner from the Belgian Borinage region. In the 1930s, it moved to its present location, an art nouveau house at Place Rouppe in Brussels, where it obtained its first Michelin star in 1953. In 2006, chef and owner Pierre Wynants announced he would step down in favour of his son-in-law Lionel Rigolet, which receive the Gault Millau's Belgian Chef of the Year 2007 award and 2 stars by the Michelin Red Guide.
This square was inaugurated on September 26, 1841 and was created as a forecourt of the Bogaarden station, the first Brussels South station. It was named after Nicolas-Jean Rouppe (Rotterdam, April 17, 1769 - Brussels, August 3, 1838), the first mayor of Brussels after Independence. During the period that the station was located here, this square flourished and it was very busy. Almost all the businesses on the square consisted of hotels and inns, with or without rooms. After the relocation of the Bogaarden station, the square fell quietly. Today it is one large open-air car park. The nearby Rouppestraat has the same origin.
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The statue / fountain in honor of Nicolas-Jean Rouppe was inaugurated in 1848 and is a beautiful work by sculptor Charles-Auguste Fraikin and architect Joseph Poelaert who designed the entire base. The fountain has a double ornamental bowl, the top one in bronze and the bottom one in stone, in which the water flowed from one basin into the other via 12 lion heads. The white marble statue represents the City of Brussels. The crown on the head of the statue is quite special, as it represents St. Gudula's Cathedral.
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