Horta premetro station

Horta (French pronunciation: [ɔʁta]) is a premetro (underground tram) station located under the Chaussée de Waterloo/Waterloosesteenweg in the Saint-Gilles municipality of Brussels, Belgium.

The station is named after the Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta, who designed a number of significant buildings in the area.

[2] In 2023, a block of flats with cycle parking was being built over the entrance to the east of the Chaussée de Waterloo, on a corner plot that had been empty since the tunnel was dug.

[3][4] Decorative ironwork and stained glass designed by Victor Horta for the Maison du Peuple/Volkshuis and the Hôtel Aubecq, which were demolished in the 1950s and 1960s respectively, is on display in the station.

On 22 January 2012, following the eviction of squatters from one of the techncal rooms, the station suffered a graffiti attack of such scale (paint had been splashed carelessly all the way along the walls) that it was closed for 24 hours while it was cleaned.