By Air

Airports nearest to Anderlecht are sorted by the distance to the airport from the city centre.

Bruxelle Grimbergen Airport (distanced approximately 13 km)
Bruxelles National Airport (distanced approximately 15 km)
Melsbroek Airport (distanced approximately 15 km)
Brussels (Mil) Airport (distanced approximately 16 km)
Overberg Airport (distanced approximately 32 km)

By Train

The railway station Brussels-South, one of the largest in Belgium, is located on the territory of neighboring commune of Saint-Gilles, but near Anderlecht Cureghem.Previously there was the stop Kuregem on the Western railway ring of Brussels.The former major freight station Small Island was finished.In GEN plan a stop "Anderlecht" provided on express railroad 50A, Brussels - Ostend.

By Road

The municipality is largely between the Brussels Inner Ring and Outer Ring, along which the town is accessible via exits 13 to 17.Some highways radiating from Brussels center and the Small ring.In the north, east-west direction Ninoofsesteenweg (N8), in the eastern north-south direction the Mons road (N6).

Church of St. Peter and Guidon, Brussels Museum of Gueuze, House of Erasmus, Anderlecht slaughterhouse

Church of St. Peter and Guidon

located in Anderlecht (Brussels), is a church in Gothic style of Brabant built in the fourteenth century.A canonical chapter was established near the church of St. Peter, while town's main church of Anderlecht and founded in 1046 by Reinelde of Aa, belonging to an influential family of the Duchy of Brabant.The first church was kind of novel, as evidenced by the crypt (eleventh century) still remaining in the choir of St. Peter and Guidon.In this crypt is a very old tombstone (eleventh century), but without any inscription with the only drawing a few leaves trimmed branch.

Brussels Museum of Gueuze

The Brussels Museum of Gueuze is a museum dedicated to the Gueuze, who was born in 1978, in the Cantillon Brewery, a family business founded in 1900 in the municipality of Anderlecht ( Brussels ).In 1978, the Brussels Museum of Gueuze is created in order to share and back up a fermentation method unique.Beer, tools, machinery, copper vats, barrels (some more than a century old) and manufacturing process are vintage and are a precious heritage.The museum offers guided tours, brewing sessions in public twice a year and a tasting.The brewmaster, Jean-Pierre Van Roy, teacher training and passionate about his subject is inexhaustible.Recognized internationally, the museum has a star in the Michelin guide and receives about 30,000 visitors a year.

House of Erasmus

House of Erasmus, located near the college of Saints Peter and Guidon in Anderlecht (Brussels) and dating from the fifteenth century, is an old house of a canon attached to the college.She is now a small museum Erasmian, in memory of the great Erasmus, "the prince of humanists", who stayed here in 1521.Home, gothic late or early Renaissance, was built in the late fifteenth century by Pierre Wichmans, canon and schoolmaster of the collegiate church of Saints Peter and Guidon since 1507.Man of culture, the canon Wichmans it receives willingly scholars and intellectuals.Among them Erasmus of Rotterdam with which a friendship is established.The canonical house was restored in 1930 and turned into a museum Erasmian.This is probably the only museum dedicated to the memory of this great humanist of the Renaissance who sought to create a European culture around the Latin language.A library available to researchers includes some 1,200 books and manuscripts speaking of Erasmus.

Anderlecht slaughterhouse

The Abattoirs Anderlecht or Cureghem in Brussels still active, are an outstanding example of industrial architecture of the nineteenth century.In 1887, it was decided to replace the slaughterhouses municipal, that pose serious problems of transporting livestock and sanitation (installation and outdated waste disposal in the Senne at the expense of other activities that draw water), by a new facility.The location is located in Cureghem where there remain significant wetlands which have the advantage of being bordered by the Brussels-Charleroi Canal and can be connected to the railway.The abattoir employs 1500 people (figure 2006 ).In addition to its operations, the covered market hall serves food and flea market.The Cureghem Cellars, renovated in 1992, hosting various events (trade fairs, exhibitions, seminars).

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