Designed in a Flemish neo-renaissance style, the flower garden of square du Petit Sablon is an architectural gem right opposite the Church of Our Lady of the Sablon. In Flemish neo-renaissance style, the flower garden of square du Petit Sablon is an architectural gem right opposite the Church of Our Lady of the Sablon. In this open-air museum, the various Brussels guilds of the day are personified by 48 statues and ten others represent the great humanists of the 16th century: Mercator, Ortélius... The flora reveals yet more symbolism: nine clumps of carved boxwood representing the nine Belgian provinces of the era and a crown for the kingdom as a whole.At the bottom of the garden stands a fountain-statue in honour of the Counts of Egmont and Hornes, resistance fighters who were beheaded in the 16th century during the tyrannical Spanish regime. Last but not least, two flights of stairs lead you to Rue aux Laines and on to Egmont Park.