Ixelles

[ eek-sel ]

noun

1. a city in central Belgium, near Brussels.

Example Sentences

Flagey looks like a huge art-deco ship and looms over a square, by the side of two small lakes, in the suburb of Ixelles, a short tram ride south of the centre.

From The Guardian

After shopping and coffee, head to the Cimitière d’Ixelles to admire art nouveau tombstones at a site calling itself the Père Lachaise of Ixelles.

From The Guardian

Using the handy Brussels Art Guide I’d purchased at the Visit Brussels office, it was easy to walk between the big-name contemporary art galleries in the city’s central Ixelles and Saint-Gilles quarters, where I lingered at Xavier Hufkens, Rodolphe Janssen, La Patinoire Royale and many others, absorbing museum-quality shows in gorgeous spaces.

From Washington Post

Hepburn was born in 1929 in the Brussels area of Ixelles to a Dutch mother and British father.

From Reuters

In the early 1920s Hergé, then a 15-year-old Georges Remi, was a scout and student at Institut St Boniface, in the Ixelles area of Brussels.

From BBC