Jette is a town and municipality in the Brussels-Capital Region . The municipality has over 52,000 inhabitants.
Jette primarily has a residential function; mainly families live there. The northwestern part of the municipality (between UZ Brussel on Campus Jette of the VUB and the King Baudouin Stadium in Laeken ) is clearly less urbanized and greener than the center. Jette has several parks and three forests: the Laarbeekbos , the Poelbos and the Dieleghembos .
Sights
- Jette town hall, Jules Van Ysendyck’s masterpiece, dates from the beginning of the 20th century.
- The only extant building of the Abbey of Dieleghem has been converted into a mostly historical museum.
- Jette has kept a few of its old pubs and breweries, as well as a blacksmith’s workshop that still operated until 1960.
- The René Magritte Museum was set up in the house where the famous painter lived and worked for twenty-four years.
