Short visits – ARAU

Short visits

ARAU now offers a new programme of short guided tours to make the most of long summer evenings in Brussels. Our guides have prepared ten new guided tours of areas off the beaten track in French and in English. These concentrated guided tours offer opportunities to discover less-well-known places and unusual themes: to be enjoyed without restraint the whole summer long!

All our guided tours

Fake Brussels: City Centre

All is not what it seems in Brussels historic heart. It might look old but sometimes it is not.
Building a Capital

After the Belgian Revolution of 1830 Brussels became the capital of a new state.
A street in Brussels

Discover the architectural styles of Brussels in one street: Art Nouveau, Neo-Classical, Beaux-Arts, Neo-Gothic… Learn about the fabric of the city and what makes a typical house in Brussels.
“Cubism street” in Koekelberg

This guided tour is an opportunity to explore some of the remains of the district’s industrial past.
Beyond the Petit Sablon

Lots of history on a pocket-handkerchief-sized area.
An artists’ village in Ixelles

This guided walking tour explores Rue Vautier and Rue Wiertz which are lined with unusual and picturesque heritage buildings
Exploring Ixelles’ most beautiful apartment buildings

ARAU invites you to discover Ixelles’ most beautiful apartment buildings!
Around Rue Marconi in Forest

This guided tour will explore some remarkable heritage social housing, plus a school and some private homes in Forest.
Crossing the valley: a short history of the bridges on Avenue de la Couronne

Explore behind the scenes in the “high” and “low” parts of Ixelles that were constructed against the odds.
Porte de Louvain: hidden treasure

Around Porte de Louvain, today known as Place Madou, can be seen some remains of a long-lost Saint-Josse.
The district around the veterinary college in Anderlecht

This guided tour explores a district with a rich industrial past which has preserved some extraordinary heritage buildings.
La Cambre Abbey

A short overview of this site that is exceptional in every way.
Secrets of Square Ambiorix

What have the Roman general Julius Caesar, the biologist Louis Pasteur, the Palais des Beaux-Arts and the Belgian Workers’ Party have in common?
Avenue Louis Bertrand: from St Servais’ church to Brusilia

Avenue Louis Bertrand is today a listed historical site, and it has always been considered one of the most beautiful avenues in Brussels.
Square Frère-Orban

Located where political and financial power meet, Square Frère-Orban is an excellent illustration of the development of new suburbs outside the city walls of Brussels in the nineteenth century.
Square Armand Steurs: Art Deco masterpiece

Square Armand Steurs is home to a beautiful array of monuments, sculptures and fountains that make references, among others, to the former mayor of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode after which it is named, and to his role in the supply of drinking water to Brussels.