Place du Grand Sablon in Brussels is a square enclosed by the triangular facade of a former chapel converted into a Gothic church, Notre Dame du Sablon, in fact. Place du Grand Sablon is a corner with chic restaurants, antique shops and the famous pastry Wittamer. In part, has been converted into parking.

Place du Petit Sablon is also a garden enclosed by a fence, topped by bronze statues of the sixteenth century. It is a work in nineteenth-century in memory of the sixteenth century, important for the economic and cultural history of Brussels.

Around the gate are carved in stone humanists and scholars.

Behind lies the Egmont Palace, for the reception of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and for conventions and conferences.