Style: | Brussels Metro |
Address: | French: Place Madou|italic=no / Dutch; Flemish: Madouplein|italic=no 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium |
Structure: | Underground |
Platform: | 2 |
Tracks: | 2 |
Opened: | (premetro) (metro) |
Owned: | STIB/MIVB |
Madou is a Brussels Metro station on the northern segment of lines 2 and 6. It is located under the Small Ring (Brussels' inner ring road) at the French: Place Madou|italic=no/Dutch; Flemish: Madouplein|italic=no, next to Madou Plaza Tower, in the municipality of the Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, north of the City of Brussels, Belgium. The station takes its name from that aboveground square, itself named after the painter and lithographer Jean-Baptiste Madou.
The station opened on 20 December 1970 as a premetro (underground tram) station on the tram line between Madou and Porte de Namur/Naamsepoort. It became a heavy metro station, serving line 2, when this line was converted on 2 October 1988. Then, following the reorganisation of the Brussels Metro on 4 April 2009, it now lies on the joint section of lines 2 and 6.[1] [2]