It is in the heart of the Midi–Lemonnier Quarter (, ), where the / is today, that Brussels' first South Station—called Bogards' railway station for the eponymous convent whose site it was built on, and to which the / is nowadays the only reference—was located from 1839, the terminus of the South Line. The former presence of a station at this location also explains the unusual width of the current /, which goes from the square to the small ring road, cleared of its railways since the inauguration of Brussels-South Station, built outside the Pentagon in 1869. Because of this, the neighbourhood is sometimes called the Stalingrad Quarter (, ). At the same time, following the covering of the Senne, the neighbourhood saw the construction of ''Haussmann-esque'' grand central boulevards, including the /, bordered by the / and the / (location of the former ''Old Market''), as well as by the Midi Palace. Each Sunday morning, the Midi district hosts the second largest market in Europe.