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Wikipedia: The Koninklijke Sint-Huybrechtsgalerijen or Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert is a glazed shopping arcade in Brussels that preceded other famous 19th-century shopping arcades such as the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan and The Passage in St Petersburg. Like them it has twin regular façades with distant origins in Vasari's long narrow street-like courtyard of the Uffizi, Florence, with glazed arcaded 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 gallery consists of two mayor sections, each more than 100 meters in length (respectively called Galerie du Roi / Koningsgalerij, meaning King's Gallery, and Galerie de la Reine / Koninginnegalerij, meaning Queen's Gallery), and a smaller side gallery (Galerie des Princes / Prinsengalerij, meaning Gallery of the Princes).
![[Galeries Royales St Hurbert, Brussels]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/_28Belgium_29_Galeries_Royales_St_Hurbert_2C_Brussels_s.jpg "Galeries Royales St Hurbert, Brussels")
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![[The small side Gallery of the Princes]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Galerie_des_Princes_01_s.jpg "The small side Gallery of the Princes")
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