Accessible visits for wheelchair users

Arkadia makes an effort to provide tours which are accessible to as many people as possible. Here is a series of original tours adapted for people with reduced mobility, focusing on different themes or particular insights.

To ensure a pleasant and rewarding experience, we limit the group size to a maximum of 15 people.

These tours have been made possible in part thanks to the support of visit.brussels and Bruxelles Environnement.

 

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Art Nouveau and Art Deco in Ixelles ponds area +

Many luxury townhouses were built by the rich bourgeoisie in the Ixelles' ponds area. The neighbourhood presents a great sample of Brussels architectural variety, featuring Art nouveau and Art Déco styles in particular. Follow our guides while discovering enchanting façades, all being equally...

Art Déco 2025 PECA Architecture Art Deco Art nouveau Heritage
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Avenue Molière – alphabet book of architecture +

Avenue Molière is one of the most beautiful avenues in Brussels : a green setting where audacity and conformism, excess and sobriety mix in an astonishing and harmonious mix of styles. The visitor will stroll through time, discovering this unique fresco of embassies, private mansions, bourgeois...

Brussels and its districts Heritage
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Exploring the historical city centre +

This fascinating circular walking tour will take you from the hilltop Royal district down to the ancient streets and markets of the city centre in the valley below. On the way we will pass the remains of the city walls, in search of the soul of the mediaeval city.

PECA Architecture Histoire Heritage
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From Place Flagey to La Cambre Abbey +

The district of Ixelles' ponds, where many mansions were built for the wealthy bourgeoisie, offers a stunning panorama on Brussels' architecture and particularly Art nouveau and Art Déco architecture.

Architecture Art Deco Art nouveau Heritage
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INR : House of radio – « The Flagey Liner » +

The INR or « the sound factory » is a marvellous example of aesthetics espousing technical achievements to meet the requirements of radio work. Between Art Deco and modernism, the shape of the building reminds us of the fascination that the 1930s had for the architecture of machines and particularly...

Art Déco 2025 Art Deco Interiors Heritage
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Ixelles Cemetery +

If there is a single place in Brussels which enables you to wander and discover the greatest Belgian artists of the 19th and 20th, it is indeed the Ixelles cemetery. Here, the architects Victor Horta and Adrien Blomme rest in peace next to writers or musicians such as Charles de Coster or Eugène...

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The Gare Maritime+

This former freight station has been turned by Neutelings Riedijk Architects into a city where it never rains. The impressive Art nouveau steel structure covering the site was renovated by Jan De Moffarts and the Bureau Bouwtechniek.  

The "Gare Maritime" is an energy neutral building : renewable...

Industrial architecture Art nouveau Heritage
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Tour & Taxis and his history +

The old industrial area of Tour en Taxis, consisting of warehouses, offices and a gigantic station housed in a large hall built at the beginning of the 20th century, was disaffected in 1987 and partially restored since 2001 to accommodate businesses, restaurants and major cultural events. The site...

PECA Industrial architecture Art nouveau Heritage