Kleine Zavelsquare

This guide to Kleine Zavelsquare in Brussels opens on the fifth of June 1568, when Count Egmont and Count Hoorn were led to a scaffold on the Grand Place, and traces how two noblemen who had served the Spanish crown for years ended up there. You'll hear about the Duke of Alba's arrival to crush unrest in the Low Countries, a dinner invitation their ally William of Orange refused to trust, and the choice Egmont and Hoorn made to stay. Look closely at the iron fence ringing the garden, where forty-eight small bronze figures represent the old city guilds.