Jardin Botanique Kruidtuin
Neoclassical former orangery and gardens turned lively cultural venue and concert hall.
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This guide to the Jardin Botanique Kruidtuin in Brussels starts with a nervous head gardener, Frans Breziers, hiding a batch of unwanted roots in a cellar beneath this spot sometime in the 1820s. It traces the garden's fashionable rise after opening in 1829 with fireworks and a three day banquet, its slow decline as the city grew up around it, and the 1930s move of its plants north to Meise that left this domed orangery empty. Listen for the echo of the old glasshouses in the room's high, curved ceiling as the music plays around you.
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