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Greenhouses to visit in Belgium

The Verrière atlas lists 12 greenhouses in Belgium, built between 1770 and 2026.

Belgium lines up a masterpiece, a survivor and a newcomer: the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken, a forerunner of Art Nouveau; the winter garden of Antwerp Zoo; and Edenya at Pairi Daiza, one of Europe's largest tropical greenhouses, opened in 2026.

12Greenhouses
1770Oldest — Huis Beaucarne Grape Glasshouse (Druivenserre)
2026Newest — Edenya (Pairi Daiza)
11Cities
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All 12 greenhouses, oldest to newest

1770–1775

Huis Beaucarne Grape Glasshouse (Druivenserre)

🇧🇪 Ename (Oudenaarde), East Flanders
Frankenthal vines from the 18th century climb three storeys under glass in a grape house decorated like a Turkish tent.
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Orangery and glasshouses of the Kruidtuin (Botanic Garden), Leuven, Leuven, Flemish Brabant
1821–1823

Orangery and glasshouses of the Kruidtuin (Botanic Garden), Leuven

🇧🇪 Leuven, Flemish Brabant
A classicist orangery flanked by glasshouses, built in 1821–1823 by the Prince of Orange's court architect and protected since 1976.
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Greenhouses of the Liège Botanical Garden, Liège, Wallonia
1841–1883

Greenhouses of the Liège Botanical Garden

🇧🇪 Liège, Wallonia
Victorian-style glasshouses whose two 17-metre rotundas were destroyed by a flying bomb on 24 December 1944.
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Balat Greenhouse (Balatkas or Kroonserre) of Meise Botanic Garden, Meise, Flemish Brabant
1854

Balat Greenhouse (Balatkas or Kroonserre) of Meise Botanic Garden

🇧🇪 Meise, Flemish Brabant
Designed in 1854 by Alphonse Balat for giant water lilies, this octagonal glasshouse was moved twice before reaching Meise.
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Royal Greenhouses of Laeken, Brussels
1874–1905

Royal Greenhouses of Laeken

🇧🇪 Brussels
Open to the public for only a few weeks each year, in spring.
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Wintertuin (Winter Garden), Antwerp Zoo
1897

Wintertuin (Winter Garden)

🇧🇪 Antwerp Zoo
The winter garden of one of the world's oldest zoos, where tropical butterflies sometimes flutter beneath a 19th-century glass roof.
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Historic vegetable greenhouses of the 't Grom museum (Midzeelhoeve), Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Antwerp Province
1946 · 1981

Historic vegetable greenhouses of the 't Grom museum (Midzeelhoeve)

🇧🇪 Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Antwerp Province
A Mechelen greenhouse of 1946, a post-war nursery greenhouse and a Venlo-type house, rebuilt in a vegetable museum and protected as a monument.
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Plantenpaleis (Plant Palace) of Meise Botanic Garden, Meise, Flemish Brabant
1947–1958

Plantenpaleis (Plant Palace) of Meise Botanic Garden

🇧🇪 Meise, Flemish Brabant
A complex of thirteen large glasshouses, inaugurated in 1958, whose twenty-year renovation ended in spring 2023.
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Glasshouses of the Ghent University Botanical Garden (Plantentuin UGent), Ghent, East Flanders
1970–1972

Glasshouses of the Ghent University Botanical Garden (Plantentuin UGent)

🇧🇪 Ghent, East Flanders
Four public glasshouses of the 1970s replaced those built by Louis Cloquet when the garden moved here in 1903.
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Observatoire du Monde des Plantes (University of Liège botanical garden greenhouses, Sart-Tilman), Sart-Tilman, Liège, Wallonia
1992–1996

Observatoire du Monde des Plantes (University of Liège botanical garden greenhouses, Sart-Tilman)

🇧🇪 Sart-Tilman, Liège, Wallonia
Four thematic greenhouses of about 2,300 m² bring together nearly 3,000 species from three major biomes on the Sart-Tilman university campus.
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2000

The Oasis (L'Oasis), Pairi Daiza's large greenhouse

🇧🇪 Brugelette (Cambron-Casteau), Hainaut
A giant 7,000 m² greenhouse whose roof opens in fine weather, where visitors eat lunch among the birds.
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Edenya (Pairi Daiza), Pairi Daiza, Brugelette (Hainaut)
2026

Edenya (Pairi Daiza)

🇧🇪 Pairi Daiza, Brugelette (Hainaut)
Certified by Guinness World Records in 2026 as the world's largest tropical greenhouse: 40,447 m² under glass.
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Architecture in Belgium

Charlier Museum (Van Cutsem house), Brussels (Saint-Josse-ten-Noode)
1890–1893

Charlier Museum (Van Cutsem house)

🇧🇪 Brussels (Saint-Josse-ten-Noode)
Two glazed galleries under glass roofs, added by Horta to a neoclassical town house to display a collection.
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Pavilion of Human Passions, Brussels (Cinquantenaire Park)
1890–1897

Pavilion of Human Passions

🇧🇪 Brussels (Cinquantenaire Park)
Victor Horta's first public commission: a small classical-inspired temple with a glazed roof above the marble relief it houses.
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Autrique House, Brussels (Schaerbeek)
1893

Autrique House

🇧🇪 Brussels (Schaerbeek)
Victor Horta's first Art Nouveau town house, built in 1893, now a house museum staged by François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters.
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Hôtel Tassel, Brussels (Rue Paul-Émile Janson)
1893–1894

Hôtel Tassel

🇧🇪 Brussels (Rue Paul-Émile Janson)
Between its two blocks, the central space is divided into two lightwells, one lighting the main staircase and the other the ground-floor winter garden.
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Hôtel Solvay, Brussels (Avenue Louise)
1894–1903

Hôtel Solvay

🇧🇪 Brussels (Avenue Louise)
Under a partly glazed roof, two light wells illuminate the staircases of this town house, where one landing is treated as a winter garden.
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Hôtel Winssinger, Brussels (Saint-Gilles)
1894–1897

Hôtel Winssinger

🇧🇪 Brussels (Saint-Gilles)
A white stone façade with bow windows and cast-iron colonnettes, and a former veranda that opened onto a greenhouse.
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Maison Frison, Brussels (Sablon)
1894

Maison Frison

🇧🇪 Brussels (Sablon)
An asymmetrical façade of white and blue stone, a stained-glass fanlight above the door and a winter garden on the ground floor.
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Hôtel van Eetvelde, Brussels (Squares district)
1895–1901

Hôtel van Eetvelde

🇧🇪 Brussels (Squares district)
An octagonal winter garden under a stained-glass dome, around which the circulation of this Art Nouveau house winds in a spiral.
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Kindergarten no. 15, Brussels (Marolles)
1895–1900

Kindergarten no. 15

🇧🇪 Brussels (Marolles)
Four classrooms set around a central covered hall under a glazed roof, behind an asymmetrical façade of white and blue stone.
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Hôtel Deprez-Van de Velde, Brussels (Squares district)
1896

Hôtel Deprez-Van de Velde

🇧🇪 Brussels (Squares district)
A corner house in white and blue stone, with an oriel carried on two brackets in plant-like curves.
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Horta House and Studio (Horta Museum), Saint-Gilles, Brussels
1898–1901

Horta House and Studio (Horta Museum)

🇧🇪 Saint-Gilles, Brussels
An architect's house organised around a staircase crowned by a skylight.
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Charles Buls Memorial, Brussels (Grand-Place)
1899

Charles Buls Memorial

🇧🇪 Brussels (Grand-Place)
A tribute from artists to Mayor Charles Buls, with a youth holding a lit lamp and an allegory of Architecture, beneath the gallery of the Maison de l'Étoile.
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Villa Carpentier (Les Platanes), Ronse
1899–1903

Villa Carpentier (Les Platanes)

🇧🇪 Ronse
A summer residence whose architecture, interior decoration and three-hectare park were all designed by Victor Horta.
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House and studio of the sculptor Fernand Dubois, Brussels (Forest)
1901–1903

House and studio of the sculptor Fernand Dubois

🇧🇪 Brussels (Forest)
An asymmetrical façade of three unequal bays, pierced by an immense window that lit the sculptor's studio.
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Hôtel Max Hallet, Brussels (Avenue Louise)
1903–1905

Hôtel Max Hallet

🇧🇪 Brussels (Avenue Louise)
Behind an elegant Euville-stone façade, a grand staircase lit by a glazed veranda with three apsidioles and by a coloured-glass lantern.
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1904–1905

Les Peupliers School Gymnasium

🇧🇪 Vilvoorde
A brick gymnasium designed by Victor Horta for the first institution in Belgium to practise Swedish gymnastics, now restored as a dance studio.
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Former Waucquez Warehouse (Belgian Comic Strip Center), Brussels (Rue des Sables)
1905–1906

Former Waucquez Warehouse (Belgian Comic Strip Center)

🇧🇪 Brussels (Rue des Sables)
Two large glazed domes cover almost the whole upper floor of this former wholesale cloth store, whose metal frame is left visible.
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Brugmann Hospital (Horta site), Brussels (Laeken)
1906–1923

Brugmann Hospital (Horta site)

🇧🇪 Brussels (Laeken)
A hospital of brick pavilions spread through an 18-hectare park, built from 1911 to 1923 to designs by Victor Horta.
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Former Wolfers Frères Store, Brussels (Rue d'Arenberg)
1909–1912

Former Wolfers Frères Store

🇧🇪 Brussels (Rue d'Arenberg)
Behind a 23 m façade of granite and white stone, its symmetry broken by a convex bow window, the building brought together a shop, goldsmith workshops and a factory.
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Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tournai, Tournai (Enclos Saint-Martin)
1913–1928

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tournai

🇧🇪 Tournai (Enclos Saint-Martin)
The only building Horta designed to be a museum: broad radiating galleries, roofed in large glass skylights, open off a central hall.
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Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (Bozar), Brussels
1923–1929

Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (Bozar)

🇧🇪 Brussels
An arts house set deep into the Coudenberg hill, where Horta swaps the curves of Art Nouveau for geometry and designs a large egg-shaped concert hall in reinforced concrete.
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Maison Guiette, Antwerp
1926–1927

Maison Guiette

🇧🇪 Antwerp
A house and studio in Antwerp, the first commission Le Corbusier received from abroad, built on a narrow plot and on the World Heritage List since 2016.
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Brussels-Central railway station, Brussels (Cantersteen)
1937–1952

Brussels-Central railway station

🇧🇪 Brussels (Cantersteen)
Victor Horta's last work: an underground station beneath a plain white-stone building with nine tall windows.
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Philips Pavilion, Expo 58, Brussels
1957–1958

Philips Pavilion, Expo 58

🇧🇪 Brussels
A tent-like pavilion with three diverging points, whose 325 loudspeakers played the "Poème électronique", a show of sound, images and light.
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