Tour d' Angle, Brussels, Belgium

The Corner tower is one of the towers of the first encircling wall, which was built at the end of the 11th century or beginning of the 12th century and was known as the Corner tower because it stood at the corner of the ramparts. The wall was over 4000 metres long and had seven gates and 50 defensive towers. The Corner tower was close to a prison for criminals and political offenders, the "Steenport" gate. Albeit being known as Corner tower, it is named Anneessens tower after François Anneessens, dean of a Brussels guild, arrested here before his decapitation in Grand Place, for his resistance to innovations in the city's government, detrimental to the power of the Brussels guilds and for his supected involvement with uprisings within Austrian Netherlands.
The tower was damaged in 1957 by the railroad works but restored in 1967.

How to go: Central Station metro and train station.




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