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In a lovely little wooded dell on the other side of avenue Louise from the Meunier Museum - and readily approached via rue de l'Aurore - lies the Abbaye de la Cambre (Mon-Fri 9am-noon & 3-6pm; free; tram #93, #94). Of medieval foundation, the abbey was suppressed by the French Revolutionary army and its attractive eighteenth-century brick buildings, which surround a pretty little courtyard, are now used by several government departments. On the courtyard is the main entrance to the lovely little abbey church , whose nave, with its barrel vaulting, is an exercise in simplicity. The church is an amalgamation of styles incorporating both Gothic and Classical features and it holds one marvellous painting, Albert Bouts' The Mocking of Christ , an early sixteenth-century work showing a mournful, blood-spattered Jesus. Behind the abbey's buildings are walled and terraced gardens, an oasis of peace away from the hubbub of avenue Louise. Beyond the abbey, at the end of avenue Louise, the Bois de la Cambre is unpleasantly crisscrossed by the main commuter access roads in its upper reaches, but a good deal more agreeable around the lake that lies further to the south. It's Brussels' most popular park, bustling with joggers, dog-walkers, families and lovers at weekends, and is the northerly finger of the large Foret de Soignes , whose once mighty forests bear a clutch of dual carriageways, and, more promisingly, scores of quiet footpaths.
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