Brussels - Ixelles (Elsene)

The Musée communal des Beaux-Art (Gemeendemuseum voor Schone Kunsten) in the Rue Jean van Volsem off the east side of the Chaussée possesses an excellent collection of Belgian and French paintings and of Belgian Impressionist paintings in particular.

The Bois de la Cambre in the very south of Ixelles is one of the favorite recreation areas close to Greater Brussels. The 24 ha/59 acre park has a lake, restaurants and broad expanses of grass for games or merely for resting. The wide and splendid Avenue Louise (Louizalaan) links the park directly with the city center.

Charles de Coster lies buried in the cemetery on Ixelles' boundary with Etterbeek. A figure of Till Eulenspiegel decorates his grave.

Located at the east edge of the Bois de la Cambre are administrative buildings and lecture halls belonging to the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Free University of Brussels), the larger and more modern part of which occupies a site a little further east still, in Etterbeek.