Saint Géry Bruxelles

This guide to Saint Gery Bruxelles opens with a legend of a dragon in the marshland here, driven out by a traveling bishop named Gaugericus around the year 580, and follows how his small chapel on this river island grew into the fortified site historians now call the true birthplace of Brussels. It traces the relics of Saint Gudula once kept in its Gothic church, the French Revolution that tore the building down, and the iron-and-glass market that later rose on the same footprint. Stand where the old chapel stood and listen for the market's iron beams still framing the square.