Place du Luxembourg

Geschiedenis

The Place du Luxembourg or Luxemburgplein is a square in the European Quarter of Brussels . It is better known by local European bureaucrats and journalists by one of its nicknames, "Place Lux" or "Plux".DesignThe square consists largely of restaurants and bars which dominate the wide pavements, with some banks and other retail services, serving the employees and members of the neighbouring European Parliament as well as the other European Institutions and associated organisations which are mostly located close by.In the centre of the square is a statue of John Cockerill, a prominent British-Belgian 19th century industrialist, which is a copy of the statue outside Seraing town hall in Liège. The figure of Cockerill is leaning against an anvil and surrounded by an industrial figures from period: a glassmaker, a mechanic, a puddler and a miner. Cockerill's motto, Work and Intelligence, are engraved upon the statue.