3D print the Cinquantenaire Arch
A free, printable model of the Cinquantenaire Arch, a triple arch with a statue group on top and curved colonnades, and the park and buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Cinquantenaire Arch
The Cinquantenaire Arch is the centerpiece of the Cinquantenaire Arcade, a memorial arcade in the middle of the Parc du Cinquantenaire, also called Jubelpark, in Brussels, Belgium. The arch has three bays of equal size and measures 30 meters (98 ft) wide and 45 meters (148 ft) high. A bronze quadriga crowns it, with a female charioteer who represents the Province of Brabant raising the national flag. Thomas Vinçotte made the group, titled Brabant Raising the National Flag, and Jules Lagae made the horses.
King Leopold II was the patron of the project that the Belgian government commissioned for the 1880 National Exhibition, with the arcade as part of it, to commemorate 50 years since the Belgian Revolution. In 1880 the column bases were all that was finished, and wooden panels formed the rest of the arch during the exhibition. The architect Gédéon Bordiau conceived the original single arch. After his death in 1904, Leopold II chose the French architect Charles Girault, who revised the design into a triple arch while keeping Bordiau's idea of the quadriga.
Work on the new arch's foundation took place on January 4, 1905, and the basic construction was finished in May of that year with private funding. Leopold II inaugurated the arcade on September 27, 1905, ready for Belgian independence's 75th anniversary. Protected status followed on June 29, 1984. Leading artists of the day were entrusted with its decoration and sculptures.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 13 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 16 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 21 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Quadriga on top
- The statue group on top of the arch has small horses and a charioteer. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; a larger print or Full detail keeps more of the figures.
- Long curved colonnades
- Two curved arcades sweep out from the arch, with rows of slim columns. A larger print size and 0.12–0.16 mm layers keep the columns distinct.
- One piece with the ground
- The Cinquantenaire Arch is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Cinquantenaire Arch takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Cinquantenaire Arch is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Cinquantenaire Arch STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Cinquantenaire Arch grows with the print: about 13 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
