This was a great stay in a luxury boutique hotel. The building design borrows from the fifteenth-century abbey that originally occupied the site. The location was perfect on a quiet street near the Grand Place, Brussels central city square. The design uses jewel-tone colors to evoke medieval stained glass, a motif repeated in the carpeting of the guest rooms. The hotel is relatively new but retains the nineteenth-century stone facade of a building which was once the home of the French neoclassical painter Jacques-Louis David. His painting features in some of the hotel advertising. Soaring ceilings echoing gothic arches divide the handsome bar, restaurant, and lobby that surround the central atrium. Th
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