Two squares — one full of antique dealers and chocolate, the other a quiet garden — and both free.
What it costs
Free. The Grand Sablon is the square with the antique shops, the chocolatiers and the cafés; the Petit Sablon across the road is a small formal garden ringed by forty-eight bronze figures of the medieval guilds.
The church of Notre-Dame du Sablon between them is free to enter.
When to go
An antiques market fills the Grand Sablon on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Otherwise it is a café square, expensive and pleasant.
Getting there
Trams 92 or 93 to Petit Sablon, or walk up from the Grand-Place in about ten minutes.
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If you only have an hour
Cross the Petit Sablon garden first — it is the quiet one and nobody stops there — then the Grand Sablon for a chocolate you buy one of rather than a box of. On a weekend morning, the antiques market instead.
What people get wrong
This is where Brussels keeps its chocolate reputation — Wittamer, Pierre Marcolini, Neuhaus and others are all within a few doors. It is also where the price of chocolate in this city stops being reasonable, so buy at a supermarket if you want quantity and here if you want the shop.
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Nearby
Ticketing arrangements and opening patterns as published for 2026 and checked on 5 September 2026. These change without much warning — confirm with the site itself before you travel. More sights, and how they fit together, in Landmarks & Sights.