The names 'Fortstraat' and 'Vestingstraat' refer to a fort built on the orders of the Spanish general Monterey (1675). Surrounded by walls six meters thick and seven meters high, it housed a barracks, a prison, and warehouses. The military stronghold was meant to protect the strategically vulnerable southern side of Brussels from hostile attacks. It forced, among others, the troops of Louis XIV to bombard the city from the more distant and lower-lying Scheuthelling in 1695. The last remnants of the fort disappeared in 1862. Only the street names remained.
→Continue walking in Fortstraat, until in front of the building at number 35.
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