Watermael-Boitsfort (Watermaal-Bosvoorde)

Watermael-Boitsfort is a residential suburb of the city of Brussels in Belgium which is one of the 19 municipalities which form the Brussels-Capital Region.The municipality has a total area of 13 square kilometres of which 58 percent is covered by the Sonian Forest.

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Watermael-Boitsfort (Watermaal-Bosvoorde)

Watermael-Boitsfort is a residential suburb of the city of Brussels in Belgium which is one of the 19 municipalities which form the Brussels-Capital Region.The municipality has a total area of 13 square kilometres of which 58 percent is covered by the Sonian Forest.

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Sonian Forest

Explore the Sonian Forest - is a 4,421-hectare (10,920-acre) forest that lies at the south-eastern edge of Brussels, Belgium. The forest lies in the Flemish municipalities of Sint-Genesius-Rode, Hoeilaart, Overijse, and Tervuren, in the Brussels-Capital Region municipalities of Uccle, Watermael-Boitsfort, Auderghem, and Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, and in the Walloon towns of La Hulpe and Waterloo. Thus, it stretches out over the three Belgian Regions. A museum has been set up in the building of the old farm of the Groenendaal priory. The Bosmuseum Jan van Ruusbroec or Musée de la Forêt ('Forest Museum') presents displays about the flora, fauna, history of the forest, and forest management

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