Brussels Courthouse Interior
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Gert Lucas
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Extensive security check is applied when entering theinterior hall and corridors. Be prepared for an X-ray tunnel for your equipment and yourself.
This being said, you are allowed to bring extensive equipment and tripod without questions asked.
This being said, you are allowed to bring extensive equipment and tripod without questions asked.
About this spot
The Law Courts of Brussels is a courthouse located on Place Poelaert in Brussels, Belgium. With a built area of 26,006 m², when it was completed in 1883, it was among the largest structures in the world and is still the largest building of its kind. The Palace of Justice has been a protected monument since 2001.
The courthouse is built on a steep incline (level difference of 20 meters between the upper and lower city), so that the entrances are on different levels. Everything about this building is of enormous size and grand scale. The building has the shape of a rectangle, the diameters of which are 150 and 160 meters long respectively.[1] The total built-up area is 26,006 m². It has 8 courtyards (6000 m²), 27 large and 245 small halls or rooms. A monumental dome (24,000 tons), 104 meters high (142 meters above TAW), crowns the building.
The main entrance on Poelaertplein is entered through a monumental peristilium. At the foot of two grand staircases are larger-than-life statues of the legislator Lykourgos, the orator Demosthenes, the lawyer Cicero and the legal scholar Ulpian. They were created by Armand Cattier and Félix Bouré. The latter, specialist of colossal lions, also made the two griffins under the pediment of the central portico. On that pediment, 39 meters high, the bust of the helmeted Themis, a creation of Joseph Ducaju, is enthroned.
The courthouse is built on a steep incline (level difference of 20 meters between the upper and lower city), so that the entrances are on different levels. Everything about this building is of enormous size and grand scale. The building has the shape of a rectangle, the diameters of which are 150 and 160 meters long respectively.[1] The total built-up area is 26,006 m². It has 8 courtyards (6000 m²), 27 large and 245 small halls or rooms. A monumental dome (24,000 tons), 104 meters high (142 meters above TAW), crowns the building.
The main entrance on Poelaertplein is entered through a monumental peristilium. At the foot of two grand staircases are larger-than-life statues of the legislator Lykourgos, the orator Demosthenes, the lawyer Cicero and the legal scholar Ulpian. They were created by Armand Cattier and Félix Bouré. The latter, specialist of colossal lions, also made the two griffins under the pediment of the central portico. On that pediment, 39 meters high, the bust of the helmeted Themis, a creation of Joseph Ducaju, is enthroned.
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