Egmont Park

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• Access: Rue du Grand Cerf, Boulevard de Waterloo (n. 31), passage de Milan, Rue des Petits Carmes, Rue aux Laines (n. 33)
• Open: all year from 8 am till 9 pm
• Date of creation: 1752
• Classified site: 1992
• Map: [plan]
• Park managed by the City of Brussels

The Egmont Park is like an imaginary country or an island cut from the urban world. The park is great for musing, but also allows children to play or read. Peter Pan sits in an oak of Turner and seems to answer the Prince de Ligne near his black walnut tree. The 'Pollepel' is an authentic Gothic well, which sends us back to the Middle Ages. At that time wells were used to supply water or to fight against fires. The 'Orangerie' (now a tearoom) has an icebox at its centre which was used to preserve ice.