Royal Saint-Hubert Galleries

Royal Saint-Hubert Galleries

Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (French) Koninklijke Sint-Hubertusgalerijen (Dutch)
Location	City of Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Coordinates	50°50′51″N 4°21′18″E / 50.84750°N 4.35500°E / 50.84750; 4.35500
Address	Rue du Marché aux Herbes / Grasmarkt 90
Opening date	20 June 1847
Architect	Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar
Public transit access	Brussels-Central
Website	Official website

The Royal Saint-Hubert Galleries (French: Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert; Dutch: Koninklijke Sint-Hubertusgalerijen) is an ensemble of three glazed shopping arcades in central Brussels, Belgium. It consists of the King's Gallery (French: Galerie du Roi; Dutch: Koningsgalerij), the Queen's Gallery (French: Galerie de la Reine; Dutch: Koninginnegalerij) and the Princes' Gallery (French: Galerie des Princes; Dutch: Prinsengalerij).

The galleries were designed and built by the architect Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar between 1846 and 1847,^[1][2] and precede other famous 19th-century European shopping arcades, such as the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan and the Passage in Saint Petersburg.^[3] Like them, they have twin regular facades with distant origins in Vasari's long narrow street-like courtyard of the Uffizi in Florence, with glazed arched shopfronts separated by pilasters and two upper floors, all in an Italianate Cinquecento style, under an arched glass-paned roof with a delicate cast-iron framework. The complex was designated a historic monument in 1986.^[4]

The galleries are located in the block between the Rue du Marché aux Herbes/Grasmarkt and the Rue de la Montagne/Bergstraat to the south and east, the Rue d'Arenberg/Arenbergstraat and the Rue de l'Ecuyer/Schildknaapsstraat to the north, and the Rue des Dominicains/Predikherenstraat and the Rue des Bouchers/Beenhouwersstraat to the west.^[3] This site is served by Brussels-Central railway station.