Flanders Gate, Former city gate site in Pentagon, Brussels, Belgium.

The Flanders Gate (Vlaamsepoort) was a gate in Brussels' second city wall, where the present-day Small Ring runs. It linked the Rue de Flandre with today's Chaussée de Gand, and now stands at the junction of Rue de Flandre and Rue Antoine Dansaert. The site was defended by the Sweerts lineage, assisted from 1422 by the Nation of Saint-Gilles.

The gate belonged to Brussels' second city wall and linked the Rue de Flandre with what is now the Chaussée de Gand. It was defended by the Sweerts lineage, joined in 1422 by the Nation of Saint-Gilles. Around 1783 the gate was demolished along with the rest of the wall, and from 1810 broad boulevards were laid out on the old rampart line.

The gate was defended by the Sweerts lineage, joined in 1422 by the Nation of Saint-Gilles. Its Dutch name, Vlaamsepoort, survives in the street name Vlaamsesteenweg, which it connected to the road now called Gentsesteenweg.

The gate stood at the junction of Rue de Flandre and Rue Antoine Dansaert, where the second wall met the moat that later fed the Charleroi-Brussels Canal. Walk the Small Ring to trace the former rampart line; the canal-side stretch shows where the defensive ditch ran.

The gate was defended by the Sweerts lineage, joined in 1422 by the Nation of Saint-Gilles. The site is now the meeting point of Rue de Flandre and Rue Antoine Dansaert, where the moat once linked to the Willebroek Canal and, from 1832, to the Charleroi-Brussels Canal.