Sights
- The Collegial Church of Saint Peter and Saint Guido is still at the centre of the city. Its Romanesque crypt dates from the 10th century and is one of the oldest in Belgium. Most of the church, however, dates from 1350 and later.
- Right next to the church, the old beguinage is home to a local historical museum.
- The “House of Erasmus”, built around 1450, and its medicinal garden can be visited nearby.
- Anderlecht also offers the Cantillon Brewery - a gueuze museum housed in an actual working brewery, and a China museum, housed in a convent of the CICM Missionaries.
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