The Royal Quarter[1] (French: Quartier Royal [kaʁtje ʁwajal] or Quartier de la Cour [kaʁtje də la kuʁ]; Dutch: Koninklijke Wijk [ˈkoːnɪŋkləkə ˈʋɛik] or Koningswijk [ˈkoːnɪŋsˌʋɛik]) is a quarter in the historic upper town of Brussels, Belgium.

[4] The Royal Quarter's creation began in 1774 with the construction of the Place Royale/Konigsplein at the instigation of Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Governor-General of the Austrian Netherlands.

[5] The authors of the project were the French architects Jean-Benoît-Vincent Barré and Gilles-Barnabé Guimard.

The streets surrounding the park were built in accordance with the strict rules of neoclassical architecture.

It was there that, for the first time in the city's history, such urban planning elements and principles as straight "perspective" streets, standard façades, and pavements were widely used.