Avenue Fonsny

The Avenue Fonsny (French) or Fonsnylaan (Dutch) is a major street in the Saint-Gilles municipality of Brussels, Belgium. It connects the Place de la Constitution/Grondwetplein on the south-west of the Small Ring (Brussels' inner ring road) to the municipality of Forest, where it is continued by the Avenue Van Volxem/Van Volxemlaan. It bears the name of a former mayor of Saint-Gilles, Jean-Toussaint Fonsny.^[1]

• Avenue Fonsny (French)
• Fonsnylaan (Dutch)

The Avenue Fonsny/Fonsnylaan in Saint-Gilles, next to Brussels-South railway station
Location within Brussels Show map of Brussels Avenue Fonsny (Belgium) Show map of Belgium
Location	Saint-Gilles, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Coordinates	50°50′01″N 04°20′07″E

One entry to Brussels-South railway station is on the Avenue Fonsny. The street also runs parallel to railway line 96.

See also

• Belgium portal

• List of streets in Brussels
• History of Brussels
• Belgium in the long nineteenth century

References

1. "Avenue Fonsny – Inventaire du patrimoine architectural". monument.heritage.brussels (in French). Retrieved 4 November 2023.

External links

• Media related to Avenue Fonsny/Fonsnylaan (Saint-Gilles) at Wikimedia Commons