Type: | Public park |
Location: | Anderlecht, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium |
Coords: | 50.8331°N 4.2981°W |
Area: | 9.44ha |
Created: | 13 August 1911 |
Publictransit: | Saint-Guidon/Sint-Guido and Veeweyde/Veeweide |
Astrid Park (fr|Parc Astrid; nl|Astridpark) is an urban public park in the municipality of Anderlecht in Brussels, Belgium. The park was inaugurated on 13 August 1911 and was named the French: Parc du Meir|italic=no/Dutch; Flemish: Meirpark|italic=no ("Meir Park") until 1935, when the mayor of Anderlecht decided to change its name in memory of Queen Astrid, the first wife of King Leopold III, who died in a car crash that year.
Since 1917, football club R.S.C. Anderlecht plays its home matches in the Constant Vanden Stock Stadium (currently known as Lotto Park for sponsorship reasons[1]), located within the park. Hence, the stadium is sometimes metonymically referred to as Parc Astrid.
This park is served by the metro stations Saint-Guidon/Sint-Guido and Veeweyde/Veeweide on line 5.