点评:Walking back from the European Parliament along rue Montoyer, we found a park gate open on boulevard du Régent and couldn’t resist the temptation to have a quick peek. The garden surrounds the austerely symmetrical neoclassical ‘Palais des Académies’ (Academy Palace or House in English). Built in the early 19th century as a residence for the Dutch Prince William of Orange (1792-1849), the palace fell to the newly created Belgian State in 1830. Since then, it has housed barracks and a museum of modern art and is now home to five of Belgium’s seven academies. As far as we could see, a meeting was being held, but the building was not open to the public. So we took a stroll in the park. Compared to the adjoining Parc de Bruxelles, it is tiny, but it is dotted with some fine 19th-century bronze statues, some of which are disposed around a small pond. We also saw bronze busts of the chemist Jean Servais Stas (Thomas Vinçotte, 1897) and the lawyer and politician Jules Destrée (Armand Bonnetain, 1937) and a stone statue of the famous astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist Adolphe Quételet (Charles-Auguste Fraikin, 1880). The park is enclosed by attractive wrought-iron fences and an ornate stone balustrade along rue Ducale. We loved the lions sitting on top of the gate pilasters but noticed a letter was missing from the inscription (‘aedes cademiarum’). The park of the Palais des Académies is a quiet place to rest your feet on one of the benches.
翻译:从欧洲议会沿着蒙图耶尔街往回走,我们发现摄政大道上的一扇公园大门敞开着,忍不住想快速瞥一眼。花园环绕着朴素对称的新古典主义风格“学院宫”(Palais des Académies,英文为Academy Palace或House)。这座宫殿建于19世纪初,是荷兰王子奥兰治威廉(1792-1849)的住所,1830年落入新成立的比利时政府手中。此后,宫殿内设有兵营和一座现代艺术博物馆,如今是比利时七所学院中的五所的所在地。我们目之所及,当时正在举行会议,但该建筑不对外开放。于是我们便在公园里散步。与毗邻的布鲁塞尔公园相比,这座建筑规模较小,但点缀着一些精美的19世纪青铜雕像,其中一些环绕着一个小池塘。我们还看到了化学家 Jean Servais Stas(Thomas Vinçotte,1897 年)和律师兼政治家 Jules Destrée(Armand Bonnetain,1937 年)的青铜半身像,以及著名天文学家、数学家、统计学家和社会学家 Adolphe Quételet(Charles-Auguste Fraikin,1880 年)的石像。公园被漂亮的锻铁栅栏和沿着 Ducale 街的华丽石栏杆环绕。我们喜欢坐在门壁柱顶上的狮子,但注意到碑文中少了一个字母(“aedes cademiarum”)。学院宫公园是一个安静的地方,您可以在长椅上休息。