Restored Our-Lady of the Sablon!

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Begun in 1999, the restoration(catering) of the church of Our-Lady-of-the-Sablon, one of the most beautiful monuments of the architectural heritage and the history of the City, is also one of the last large-scale realizations of a lineage of campaigns(countrysides) of renovations of the Brussels churches.

Works of restoration(catering) which aimed at once(at the same time) the facades of the building, its stained glasses, his(her,its) fine sculptures, his(her,its) galleries and the other outside decorations. The Gothic style which characterizes the building can thus, from Thursday, March 5th, be admired in its totality by the public.

A building in the particular fate because it is one of the rare buildings of the kind(genre) to have escaped the destruction during the successive wars that crossed his(her,its) 600 years of history(story), in particular during the religious wars.

Additional information concerning the renovation of the building can be asked the Unit Heritage of the City of Brussels.