Sonian Forest
The Sonian Forest (French: Foret de Soignes, Dutch: Zonienwoud) is a large forest in the south-eastern part of Brussels, Belgium.
The forest is in the Flemish parts of Sint-Genesius-Rode, Hoeilaart, Overijse and Tervuren, Uccle , Watermael-Boitsfort, Auderghem and Woluwe-Saint-Pierre in the Brussels-Capitale Region and in the Walloon towns of La Hulpe and Waterloo. Thus it stretches out over the three Belgian Regions. It used to be connected with Bois de la Cambre and Hallerbos (Blue Forest in Belgium) but they split up in 1900.
It is maintained by Flanders (56%), the Brussels-Capitale Region (38%) and Wallonia (6%). There are some parts of the forest privately held forest and the Kapucijnenbos, the "Capuchin Wood", which belongs to the Royal Trust.
Arts
Auguste Rodin went to the forest while living in Brussels in the 1870s. He made several paintings of the forest during this time.
Sonian Forest Media
Autumn light in the Sonian Forest
Winter light in the Sonian Forest
Even, dense old-growth stand of beech trees (Fagus sylvatica) prepared to be regenerated by their saplings in the understorey, in the Brussels part of the Sonian Forest
Small chapel in the Sonian Forest near the site of the monastery of John of Ruysbroeck at Groenendaal.
Other websites
Media related to Sonian Forest at Wikimedia Commons
