{"id":12488,"date":"2025-12-21T19:22:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T19:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/?p=12488"},"modified":"2026-10-04T13:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T13:26:13","slug":"cathedrale-saint-michel-et-sainte-gudule-bruxelles-belgique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/belgium\/brussels\/cathedral-of-st-michael-and-st-gudula-brussels-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"Cath\u00e9drale Saint-Michel-et-Sainte-Gudule, Bruxelles, Belgique"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula is the main Catholic church of Brussels, dedicated to the city\u2019s patron saints, the archangel Michael and Saint Gudula. It stands on the Treurenberg hill between the Upper and Lower Town, and its two 64-metre towers are among the landmarks of the city skyline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The present Gothic church was begun in 1226 on the site of an 11th-century Romanesque church and completed in 1519. The west front with its twin towers, attributed to Jan van Ruysbroeck, court architect of Philip the Good, was built in about 1470\u20131485. The church became a cathedral only in 1962, when it was made co-cathedral of the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c0 l'int\u00e9rieur, la nef est bord\u00e9e des statues des douze ap\u00f4tres, et la chaire baroque en ch\u00eane d'Hendrik Frans Verbruggen (1699) repr\u00e9sente Adam et \u00c8ve chass\u00e9s du paradis. Parmi les vitraux du XVIe si\u00e8cle figure celui dessin\u00e9 par Bernard van Orley en 1537, qui montre l'empereur Charles Quint et Isabelle de Portugal, et l'orgue Grenzing de 2000 compte quelque 4 300 tuyaux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cathedral hosts the great ceremonies of the Belgian state, such as the 1999 wedding of Prince Philippe and Mathilde, now King and Queen. Entry is free: it is open Monday to Friday 8:00\u201318:00, Saturday 8:00\u201317:00 and Sunday 13:00\u201318:00, but not during services. The treasury (\u20ac3), the Romanesque remains (\u20ac2) and, by appointment, the 11th-century crypt (\u20ac4) cost extra, and the towers can be climbed on booked tours from March to October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La cath\u00e9drale gothique de Bruxelles, b\u00e2tie de 1226 \u00e0 1519, avec deux tours de 64 m\u00e8tres, des vitraux Renaissance et une chaire baroque ; entr\u00e9e gratuite.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1063,977,1062,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brussels","category-architecture","category-belgium","category-churches"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16851,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12488\/revisions\/16851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}