Forest Park, Brussels

Park in Forest, Belgium

50°49′21″N 4°20′13″E / 50.82250°N 4.33694°E / 50.82250; 4.33694Area13 hectares (32 acres)Created1882

Forest Park (French: Parc de Forest) or Vorst Park (Dutch: Park van Vorst) is a public park located in and named after the municipality of Forest in Brussels, Belgium. It was designed by Victor Besme and occupies an area of 13 hectares (32 acres).^[1]

Forest Park is adjacent to Duden Park to its south, which is home to the football ground of Royale Union Saint-Gilloise, the historical football club from the neighbouring municipality of Saint-Gilles, although the club is not located in the municipality, whose border with Forest is to the north of Forest Park.

The park is surrounded by a set of streets that connect the Avenue Albert/Albertlaan to the Avenue Wielemans Ceuppens/Wielemans Ceuppenslaan, making them part of the Greater Ring. Those streets are the Avenue des Villas/Villalaan to the north, the Avenue du Mont Kemmel/Kemmelberglaan to the east, the Avenue Besme/Besmelaan to the south and the Avenue Reine Marie-Henriette/Koningin Maria-Hendrikalaan to the south-west.

View of the park from its hill
Pine trees in the park, colonised by parakeets^[2]

References

^ "Parcs et Jardins de la Région Bruxelles Capitale". Archived from the original on 16 December 2004. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
^ Borowski, Zbigniew; Zub, Karol; Jacob, Jens (April 2019). "Applied research for optimized vertebrate management: 11 th European Vertebrate Pest Management Conference". Pest Management Science. 75 (4): 885–886. doi:10.1002/ps.5302. PMID 30848566.