Stage 5

Stage 5

If you’re still feeling brave enough, go back down towards the centre and join Boulevard Adolphe Max, built between 1867 and 1871 and copied from the Haussmann model. Here again, you’ll find many eclectic and neoclassical buildings. Start at the end of the street, at number 164, with the Cécile Hôtel/Le Dôme. The building, designed by Alban Chambon in 1906, has elements in both the eclectic and Art Nouveau styles. Step into the street and admire the buildings as you pass them. Enter the Passage du Nord, an eclectic covered gallery designed by Henri Rieck and built between 1881 and 1882. 

At the end of the boulevard is Place de Brouckère, where, at number 41, you can admire the Continental Hotel (with its illuminated sign on the roof) dating from 1874 and designed by Eugène Carpentier in an eclectic style. Also on the square is the magnificent Métropole Hotel dating from 1895, designed by Antoine Trappeniers, which has sadly been closed since 2020. The building combines eclectic, neo-Renaissance and neo-rococo (neo-Louis XV) styles.