This overview helps you pick the best municipality for your room. Every municipality has a number with four characters that refers to it. For instance the pentagon (city centre) is 1000.
When looking for a room online, the following sites may be helpful to know where exactly it is:
List of municipalities: www.brussels.irisnet.be
Situating addresses: www.mappy.be
1. Municipalities close to your school:
- CLASS Hotel Management and Tourism / Social Sciences / Communication / RITS / Industrial Sciences and Technology (Zespenningenstraat, 1000 Brussels)
- 1000 Brussels ("pentangle")
- 1070 Anderlecht and 1080 Molenbeek (near the "pentangle")
- Royal Conservatory (Regentschapsstraat, 1000 Brussels)
- 1000 Brussels
- 1060 St-Gilles
- 1050 Elsene/Ixelles (left part or near the "pentangle")
- Applied Linguistics (Trierstraat, 1040 Etterbeek)
- 1000 Brussels
- 1050 Ixelles/Elsene (right part or near the "pentangle")
- 1210 St-Josse
- Health Care & Teacher Training (1090 Jette)
- HORTECO (1800 Vilvoorde OR 1090 Jette)
- VUB free university of Brussels (1040 Etterbeek, 1050 Elsene)
2. About the municipalities:
1090 Jette
- A lot of students (medical faculty of VUB and Erasmushogeschool)
- A lot of other international students
- Close to Laarbeekbos and other woods, for those who need some quieter corners of the city
- Near the sports centre
- A lot of student parties on campus
- Student restaurants
- Medical centre
- There is no metro, you have to take one of the busses from metro station Simonis to get to the heart of the city
- You have to take a taxi to get back from the city at night, which may be expensive for you
1000 Brussels "The pentangon"
- The heart of the city, for a true Brussels experience
- The centre of Brussels night life
- Close to most schools
- You have to party until the "first bus" on (international) student parties in Jette or take a taxi, which may be expensive for you
1050 Elsene, 1040 Etterbeek
- Near the VUB, University of Brussels, and the International Students Office
