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Northern Passage

Passage du Nord (French) Noorddoorgang (Dutch)
Location	City of Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Coordinates	50°51′07″N 4°21′15″E / 50.85194°N 4.35417°E / 50.85194; 4.35417
Architect	Henri Rieck
Public transit access	De Brouckère
Website	Official website

The Passage du Nord (French) or Noorddoorgang (Dutch), meaning "Northern Passage", is a glazed shopping arcade in central Brussels, Belgium. It was built in 1881–82 in an eclectic style by Henri Rieck, following the covering of the Senne and the creation of the Central Boulevards. It is decorated with 32 caryatids in the neoclassical style by Jean-François-Joseph Bertheux and sculptures and putti by Constant Albert Desenfants.

The gallery is located between the Rue Neuve/Nieuwstraat and the Boulevard Adolphe Max/Adolphe Maxlaan. It is served by the metro and premetro (underground tram) station De Brouckère on lines 1, 3, 4 and 5.

Gallery

• Entrance on the Boulevard Adolphe Max/Adolphe Maxlaan
• Detail of the facade
• Glazed roof

See also

• Arcade galleries in Brussels
• History of Brussels
• Belgium in "the long nineteenth century"

References

Notes

1. Michel Paquot, Le passage du Nord (in French), L'Eventail, March 2019, p. 138-141

Bibliography

• Eggericx, Laure (1997). Les Boulevards du Centre. Bruxelles, ville d'Art et d'Histoire (in French). Vol. 20. Brussels: Centre d'information, de Documentation et d'Etude du Patrimoine.
• Le Patrimoine monumental de la Belgique: Bruxelles (PDF) (in French). Vol. 1A: Pentagone A-D. Liège: Pierre Mardaga. 1989.

• Shopping malls in Brussels
• City of Brussels
• Tourist attractions in Brussels
• Arcades (architecture)