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| Location | City of Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium |
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| Coordinates | 50°50′51″N 4°21′18″E / 50.84750°N 4.35500°E |
| Address | Rue du Marché aux Herbes / Grasmarkt 90 |
| Opening date | 20 June 1847 |
| Architect | Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar |
| Public transit access | Brussels-Central |
| Website | Official website |
The Royal Saint-Hubert Galleries (French: Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert; Dutch: Koninklijke Sint-Hubertusgalerijen) is an ensemble of three glazed shopping arcades in central Brussels, Belgium. It consists of the King's Gallery (French: Galerie du Roi; Dutch: Koningsgalerij), the Queen's Gallery (French: Galerie de la Reine; Dutch: Koninginnegalerij) and the Princes' Gallery (French: Galerie des Princes; Dutch: Prinsengalerij).
The galleries were designed and built by the architect Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar between 1846 and 1847,[1][2] and precede other famous 19th-century European shopping arcades, such as the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan and the Passage in Saint Petersburg.[3] Like them, they have twin regular façades with distant origins in Vasari's long narrow street-like courtyard of the Uffizi in Florence, with glazed arched shopfronts separated by pilasters and two upper floors, all in an Italianate Cinquecento style, under an arched glass-paned roof with a delicate cast-iron framework. The complex was designated a historic monument in 1986.[4]
The galleries are located in the block between the Rue du Marché aux Herbes/Grasmarkt and the Rue de la Montagne/Bergstraat to the south and east, the Rue d'Arenberg/Arenbergstraat and the Rue de l'Ecuyer/Schildknaapsstraat to the north, and the Rue des Dominicains/Predikherenstraat and the Rue des Bouchers/Beenhouwersstraat to the west.[3] This site is served by Brussels-Central railway station.
- ^ "History of the Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert in Brussels: a marvelous story". Royal Gallery of Saint Hubert. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- ^ "Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert". visit.brussels. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- ^ a b Mardaga 1994, p. 301.
- ^ Région de Bruxelles-Capitale (2016). "Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert" (in French). Brussels. Retrieved 4 July 2022.