The Parc de Bruxelles features a strict geometric layout of gravel paths and tall, carefully pruned trees arranged in a pattern resembling a Masonic compass. Beneath this symmetry lies the site of the former Warande, a private hunting ground for the Dukes of Brabant. When the park opened to the public in seventeen eighty-two, a local man named Jan de Lichte allegedly found a way to continue running a gambling den within the thicket, ignoring the new rules of the Austrian governors.
Parc de Bruxelles
park garden
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