Press invitation: Launch of Heritage Days - Journées du Patrimoine 2024

Ans Persoons, Brussels Secretary of State for Urban Planning and Heritage, and Bety Waknine, Managing Director of urban.Brussels, are pleased to invite you to the press visit on Wednesday September 4th at 12:00 to unveil the programme for the 36^th Heritage Days / Journées du Patrimoine, which will take place during the weekend of 14 & 15 September.

Dedicated to ‘New Heritage’, these days are an invitation to take a look at the nearby past, which is still very present in our daily lives, and at the city that has been built and transformed from the 1970s to the beginning of the 21st century. Half a century of upheaval caused by successive crises, the effects of which we are still feeling, but also half a century of resilience in the city and a specific materiality that we have inherited today.

During the press visit the programme for the Heritage Days will be revealed through a visit of two buildings in the European District from this period, Arlon 53 and Brusssimo. Two iconic pieces of architecture still too little known for its unique heritage. The platform L’architecture qui dégenre (a platform for gender neutral architecture) will also be presenting the rich programme for the Matrimony Days taking place from 27 to 29 September.

As a reminder, Heritage Days is an initiative that enables many Brussels residents and Europeans to discover the Belgian capital's exceptional heritage from a special angle and gain access to places that are not usually easily accessible. This event is organised every year by the Brussels-Capital Region, as part of the European Heritage Days, an initiative of the Council of Europe and the European Union.

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