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Grand-Place

main square in Brussels, Belgium
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Summary

Grand-Place is a grand place[1]. Grand-Place draws 4,236 Wikipedia views per month (grand place category, ranking #1 of 5).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Brussels[3]
  • Country: Belgium[4]
  • Architectural style: baroque architecture[5], Gothic architecture[6], Gothic Revival[7], Flamboyant[8]
  • Location: Pentagon[9]
  • Commons category: Grand-Place/Grote Markt[10]
  • Significant event: Flower Carpet of Brussels[11], Ommegang of Brussels[12], Meyboom[13]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Grand Place (Brussels)[14]
  • Time of earliest written record: 1174[15]
  • Heritage designation: World Heritage Site[16], protected monument[17]
  • Native label: Grand-Place[18], Grote Markt[19]
  • Length: 110 m[20]
  • Elevation above sea level: 30 m[21]
  • Area: 1.48 ha[22], 20.93 ha[23]
  • Width: 68 m[24]
  • World Heritage criteria: (ii)[25], (iv)[26]
  • Connects with: Rue au Beurre - Boterstraat[27], Rue Chair et Pain - Vlees-en-Broodstraat[28], Rue des Harengs - Haringstraat[29], Rue de la Colline - Heuvelstraat[30], Rue des Chapeliers - Hoedenmakersstraat[31], Rue Charles Buls - Karel Bulsstraat[32], Rue de la Tête d'Or - Guldenhoofdstraat[33]
  • Webcam page URL: http://www.bruxelles.be/webcam-grand-place[34], http://www.brussel.be/webcam-grote-markt[35], https://www.brussels.be/webcam-grand-place[36]
  • Street address: Grand-Place, Bruxelles[37], Grote Markt, Brussel[38]
  • Category for the view from the item: Category:Views from balcony of Swan House (Brussels)[39]

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Cultural Significance

Things named for Grand-Place include Bourse-Grand-Place - Beurs-Grote Markt premetro station[40], a tram stop[41], in Belgium[42].

Why It Matters

Grand-Place has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[43] Grand-Place is known by 57 alternative names across languages and contexts.[44]

Entities named for Grand-Place include Bourse-Grand-Place - Beurs-Grote Markt premetro station[40], a tram stop[41], in Belgium[42].

Related Entities

Belgium

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . Wiki Loves Monuments monuments database. Retrieved . tools.wmflabs.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Wiki Loves Monuments monuments database. Retrieved . tools.wmflabs.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Wiki Loves Monuments monuments database. tools.wmflabs.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . whc.unesco.org. whc.unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Wiki Loves Monuments monuments database. tools.wmflabs.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . GeoNames. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . whc.unesco.org. whc.unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . whc.unesco.org. whc.unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [41] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [42] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [43] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [44] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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