The Ixelles Ponds and Tenbosch Park are noted parks in the middle of the municipality.
The Flagey Building, also known as the Radio House, a Streamline Moderne building on the Place Eugène Flagey, used to house the Belgian National Institute of Radio Broadcasting (INR/NIR).
The Résidence de la Cambre, the first high-rise building in Brussels, on the Boulevard Général Jacques/Generaal Jacqueslaan, is another notable Art Deco building.
Ixelles was a centre of Art Nouveau architecture in the first decades of the 20th century. Several Art Nouveau houses built by Victor Horta are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and some of them can be visited.
The three Brussels universities—the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Saint-Louis University—have campuses in Ixelles. As a result, the south-eastern part of the municipality is home to a large number of students.
Ixelles Cemetery is one of the most important cemeteries in the country as it contains the graves of a number of famous Belgian personalities. It was there, in 1891, that the French General Georges Boulanger, leader of the right-wing Boulangerists, committed suicide, on the tomb of his mistress, who had died a couple of months earlier.
Ixelles also houses several interesting churches and museums, including the Museum of Ixelles, as well as the Constantin Meunier Museum, established in the residence where the artist lived part of his life.
Events
Several fairs are organised in Ixelles, including the Spring Fair on the Place Eugène Flagey, which takes place between the fourth and sixth Sunday after Easter, as well as the Boondael Fair at the end of July.[citation needed]
Brussels Universities Cyclocross is a cyclo-cross race that is regularly held in the adjacent campuses of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), located in eastern Ixelles.[citation needed]
Demographics
Migrant communities in Ixelles with over 1,000 people as of 1 January 2020:
The current city council was elected in the October 2018 elections. The current mayor of Ixelles is Christos Doulkeridis [fr], a member of Ecolo, who is in coalition on the municipal council with PS - sp.a.
Audrey Hepburn (1929–1993), British actress, model, and humanitarian
Auguste Alfred Lucien Lameere (1864–1942), entomologist
Auguste Perret (1874–1954), architect
Boris Szulzinger (born 1945), film director and producer
Camille Lemonnier (1844–1913), writer and poet
Emile Vandervelde (1866–1938), statesman, socialist leader, Minister of Justice, and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Frank Ntilikina (born 1998), professional basketball player
Grand Jojo (1936–2021), singer-songwriter
Michel Regnier, also known as Greg (1931–1999), comic book author
Jacky Ickx (born 1945), racing driver
Jaco Van Dormael (born 1957), screenwriter and film director
Jacques Feyder (1885–1948), screenwriter and film director
Jean-François van Boxmeer (born 1961), businessman, chairman and CEO of Heineken International
Jules de Burlet (1844–1897), politician, senator, Interior Minister, Prime Minister, and Belgian ambassador to Portugal
Julio Cortázar (1914–1984), novelist
Kris Bosmans (born 1980), cyclist
Leo Joseph Suenens (1904–1996), cardinal and Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels
Marc Dutroux (born 1956), convicted child molester and serial killer
Marc Moulin (1942–2008), jazz and fusion musician, author
Michel de Ghelderode (1898–1962), avant-garde dramatist
Natacha Régnier (born 1974), actress
Paul Hymans (1865–1941), politician and first President of the League of Nations
Paul Saintenoy (1862–1952), architect, teacher, architectural historian, and writer
Pierre Kolp (born 1969), composer
Pierre Rapsat (1948–2002), singer-songwriter
Rik Coolsaet (born 1951), academic
Sophie Wilmès (born 1975), politician, Prime Minister, and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Ursula von der Leyen (born 1958), German Federal Minister for Labour and Social Affairs, German Minister of Defence, and President of the European Commission
Anna Boch (1848–1936), artist and art collector, owner of the Villa Anna
Antoine Wiertz (1806–1865), painter and sculptor
August de Boeck (1865–1937), composer, organist, and music pedagogue
Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), sculptor
Charles de Coster (1827–1879), novelist
Constantin Meunier (1831–1905), painter and sculptor
Damso (born 1992), Belgian-Congolese rapper, singer, and songwriter
Edith Cavell (1865–1915), British nurse and World War I martyr, ran a nursing school there from 1907.
Elisée Reclus (1830–1905), geographer and anarchist
Ernest Solvay (1838–1922), chemist, industrialist, and philanthropist
Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924), Italian composer; lived and died at 1, avenue de la Couronne/Kroonlaan; a tablet with an inscription is visible on the building wall.
Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (1821–1909), painter
Jean-Baptiste Moens (1833–1908), philatelist and stamp dealer