The Mercator Museum is a museum in the East Flemish town of Sint-Niklaas . The full history of cartography is disclosed in the museum . The central figure is the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator , an instrument maker and engraver who was considered the Ptolemy of his time during his lifetime . One learns everything about the orientation techniques, up to and including the modern methods applied by the National Geographic Institute . Part of the museum is devoted to original 16th-century globes and atlases , from […]
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The Babbelfietser (your guide and driver) will take you for a tour. Every reservation of one Babbelbike is valid for 2 adults or 3 children up to 12 years old. prices Trip of 30 minutes: 30 euros / bike.Trip of 60 minutes: 50 euros / bike The Babbelfiets rides on fixed days and times Every […]
The Nature domain Kiewit is in the hamlet Kiewit of the Belgian city of Hasselt . In the center of the domain of approximately 100 hectares are a mansion from 1857 and a farm with a core from the 17th century, which became the property of the Vroonen family in 1869. Construction of an English garden , a pond and lanes followed. On April 2, 1942, a Dutch-speaking home for children […]
Plopsa Indoor Hasselt is het allereerste deels overdekte themapark van België in Hasselt, gelegen naast de Ethias Arena en Grenslandhallen. Het park behoort tot de Plopsa-groep, de themaparkdivisie van Studio 100. Attracties en horeca Het park heeft 24 attracties verdeeld over het binnen- en buitengebied, 6 horecagelegenheden en een souvenirwinkel. Indoor Attracties K3 Disco Het Theater De Botsauto’s De K3 Zweefmolen Carrousel De Woeste […]
The National Jenever Museum Schiedam has been located since 1996 in a former malt wine distillery and distillery De Locomotief at the Lange Haven 74-76 in the South Holland city of Schiedam , the city that became known as the jenever capital of the world. The museum shows a special collection that tells about the history and background of gin and genever distilling in the Netherlands. Think of advertisements, packaging […]
The museum is housed in two connected patrician houses on the corner of Maastrichterstraat and Guido Gezellestraat. The Waerdenhof was built in 1680 and Stellingwerff (see Guillaume Stellingwerff ), built in 1857. The city and its inhabitants are highlighted in the museum from a historical, political, folklore and cultural-historical perspective. The museum includes objects from the abbey Herkenrode exhibits, such […]
The Bokrijk Provincial Domain (Dutch: Provinciaal Domein Bokrijk) is a park and museum complex near Genk, Province of Limburg in Belgium. It is known for its open-air museum which displays a large collection of historical buildings from across Flanders which presents the history of rural life in the region. The domain is 5.5 square kilometres (2.1 sq mi) in area and also hosts an important botanical garden (arboretum), […]
The Japanse Tuin is a 2.5-hectare extension of the Kapermolenpark and was laid out in the early-1990s by the landscape architect Inoue Takuyuki. You can see the bubbling creek, zigzagging bridge (Yatsuhashi), waterfall, stone lantern (Yukumi-Doro), the garden by being reflected in the pond, the Ceremonial House. Tea ceremonies are often given at the garden’s […]
Herkenrode Abbey (Limburgish: Abdij van Herkenrode) was monastery of Cistercian nuns located in Kuringen, part of the municipality of Hasselt, which lies in the province of Limburg, Belgium. Since 1972 some of the surviving buildings have served as the home of a community of the Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre, who have since built a new retreat center and church on the site. In 1974 the buildings and the […]
The Koning Albertpark, also known as Zuidpark, is a city park in the Belgian city of Ghent. The park is located in the southeast of the city center, between Woodrow Wilson Square. It is a neo-baroque park, where the other parks in the city are mostly laid out in English landscape style. The King Albert Park was originally called […]
The Sint-Antoniuskerk is a church in the Belgian city of Kortrijk . She is located in the Veemarktbuurt and is dedicated to Anthony of Padua . The church is a protected monument . The interior of the church is painted in neo-Gothic style, with decorative motifs applied with stencils. This work was performed by Willem Deumens from Venlo in the years 1894 – 1895 . Adoration of the Lamb above the main altar. This scene, like the other scenes on […]
The Church of Our Lady in a former Collegiate church in Kortrijk. The church was built in 1199 established by Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders. The church is situated in the historic city centre of Kortrijk. The church is currently still used as a parish church, most of the interior dates from the late Baroque period. The mean organ is sculpted in […]
The Kortrijk International Rose Garden is a park in the Belgian city of Kortrijk . This city park of one hectare is located in the city district of Hoog Kortrijk in the castle park of the castle ‘t Hooghe. The park borders the President Kennedylaan and the Doorniksesteenweg, opposite the Hogeschool VIVES. The International Rose Garden was founded in 1959 in the gardens of the castle ‘t Hooghe . The rose garden […]
Buda is an ancient neighborhood in the Belgian city of Kortrijk . The district belongs to the Old Town and is located on the Buda Island. The Buda Island is physically surrounded by two arms of the River Leie and is located south of Overleie . Buda, historically on the north bank of the Leie, is part of the historic centre. For visitors this means you […]
Texture is a museum in the Belgian city of Kortrijk that tells the evolution of flax cultivation , processing and processing into linen fabric, linked to the development of the Leie Valley in and around Kortrijk. While the nobility spent fortunes on lace and damask, basic cloth for the masses was produced in vast quantities in Kortrijk. The museum is the successor of the National Flax Museum that used to be located in Hoog […]
Kortrijk 1302 is a museum in the Begijnhofpark in the Belgian city of Kortrijk . The multimedia museum is located in the Groeninge Abbey and deals with the myths surrounding the Battle of the Golden Spurs , the historical battle that was fought on the Groeningekouter in Kortrijk on 11 July 1302. The museum tells you all you need to know about the battle and its causes and consequences, and explains […]
The Begijnhof in Kortrijk was founded in 1238 by Johanna of Constantinople . The intact medieval district is a combination of a square beguinage and a street beguinage (0.7 ha). Since December 2, 1998 , the Kortrijk beguinage has been part of the cultural and natural world heritage of UNESCO as part of the group registration of Flemish beguinages. This complex for lay religious women, set between the city’s two main […]
Nemo 33 is an indoor non-chlorinated fresh water facility in Brussels, Belgium. It held the record as the deepest indoor swimming pool in the world between its opening on 1 May 2004, and the completion of Y-40 in Montegrotto Terme, Padua, Italy on 5 June 2014. The facility contains a restaurant, bookshop, swimwear store, souvenir store, and rooms for other water activities. There are numerous underwater windows that […]
The Carnival of La Louvière is called Laetare, after the Latin verb meaning “to enjoy” (the introit at mass on the fourth Sunday of Lent begins Laetare Jerusalem, Rejoice Jerusalem). It lasts three days, Sunday to Tuesday, and takes place in the middle of Lent. The Gilles are out on all three days, stomping to the rhythm of their music and distributing oranges to the […]
The Center de la Gravure is a museum dedicated to printed art, a unique collection, original exhibitions and a multifaceted educational offer. A beautiful space renovated and enlarged in 2011. For each exhibition, an active visit, a game trail, a creative workshop – your choice and à la carte! The team of the Center de la Gravure […]
Museum, space of art and creation dedicated to ceramics, Keramis is erected on the site of the former Boch earthenware factory in La Louvière. The museum has a remarkable collection of earthenware produced in the 19th and 20th centuries by the Boch manufacture. Exceptional creations, from art workshops such as Charles Catteau’s vases, stand alongside everyday […]
Haine-Saint-Pierre station was a railway station along line 112 in Haine-Saint-Pierre , part of the city of La Louvière . The qualifier of “Haine-Saint-Pierre station” was used for the first time in 1866. The station was stopped due to the creation of a new station. railway station a few hundred meters away, it is the Louvière-Sud station. The site was bought by the municipality of […]
The Strépy-Thieu boat lift (French: L’ascenseur funiculaire de Strépy-Thieu) lies on a branch of the Canal du Centre in the municipality of Le Rœulx, Hainaut, Belgium. A giant boat lift 150 meters high which alone redeems a vertical drop of 73.15 meters, a concrete colossus equipped with two independent bins of several tons which carry the boats with strength and tranquility. With the Ronquières […]
The Bois-du-Luc was a coal mine in Houdeng-Aimeries, near La Louvière, in Belgium which today is preserved as an industrial heritage site. As well as the site of the headquarters of the Société des Charbonnages de Bois-du-Luc et d’Havre, the Bois du Luc was the site of the Saint Emmanuel Pit (Fosse Saint-Emmanuel) which belonged to the company. The Fosse Saint-Emmanuel was one of the oldest mines in Belgium, […]
The Museum of Ixelles (French: Musée d’Ixelles) is an art museum in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium. The museum was founded in 1892 to house a collection of works donated by painter and collector Edmond De Pratere (1826-1888) and grew rapidly with donations from generous patrons. The Belgian art patron Octave Maus (1856-1919) donated more than 200 Impressionist, Neo-impressionist and symbolist works. Today the museum presents a panorama of Belgian art of the […]
The Ixelles Ponds (French: Étangs d’Ixelles) or Elsene Ponds (Dutch: Vijvers van Elsene) are two freshwater ponds in the Brussels municipality of Ixelles. The ponds we can see today are those spared by a 19th-century campaign of drying the wetlands of the Maalbeek valley between La Cambre Abbey and Eugène Flagey Square. The two long and narrow ponds, whose total lengths are approximately 700 metres (2,300 ft), and widths are […]
Le Flagey is a cultural institution located in the former headquarters of the Belgian National Institute of Radio Broadcasting (formerly known as the Maison de la Radio) on Eugène Flagey Square, in Ixelles (Brussels). The building , designed by Joseph Diongre, was completed in 1938 in Streamline Moderne (an international style of Art Deco). It owes its name to Eugène Flagey, a Belgian lawyer and […]
The Chaussée d’Ixelles is a traffic lane located on the territory of the municipality of Ixelles , in Belgium. This is the main shopping street in Ixelles and has about everything from food stores to clothes shops, including the latest range from the widely known Zara to its cheaper versions. There is also an African shopping center with lots of […]
Tenbosch Park, Tenbosch or Tenbos (French: Parc Tenbosch, Dutch: Tenbosch Park, meaning in the bush), is a public park in the municipality of Ixelles in Brussels, Belgium. Although relatively small with an area of 2 hectares (4.9 acres), it is an exquisitely landscaped park popular among local residents. It is surrounded by a wall and offers an unexpected oasis of calm in a busy district. Because of […]
Individual visits WHEN? from 2 March to 29 March 2020: every Saturdayfrom 4 April to 8 November 2020: daily from 1.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m., with an additional round trip at 11 am from 1 May to 30 Septemberfrom November 14 to November 24 2020: every Saturday PRICE 7 EUR | Adult 5 EUR | Children (4-12 years) […]
The Royal Manufacture of Tapestries De Wit is a company, founded in 1889 in Mechelen , specialized in the restoration of tapestries. De Wit weaves, conserves, buys, sells tapestries and regularly organizes exhibitions on this theme. The Tapestries Manufacture is world famous. The restorers restore valuable tapestries by hand. Partly thanks to the up-to-date cleaning and conservation systems, De Wit receives commissions from the […]
Planckendael is a zoo, located on the grounds of Planckendael castle in the village district of Muizen, in Mechelen, Belgium. In 1956 the Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp (KMDA) bought the Planckendael estate in order to acquire a larger space for animals than what they owned: the city zoo in Antwerp. Planckendael hosts exotic animals like rhinos, bison and various antelope species. The layout […]
Museum Het Zotte Kunstkabinet in Mechelen is a museum with paintings from the 16th century . The focus is on satirically moralizing paintings with original works from the region of Hieronymus Bosch . The collection includes works by the studio Jheronimus Bosch, Jan Verbeeck , Frans Verbeeck , Pieter Brueghel the Younger , Jan Massijs , Hans Baldung , Marten van Cleve the Elder , Otto van Veen , etc. All these painters had close contacts with the rhetoricians . Explanation of all […]
The Mechelen transit camp, officially SS-Sammellager Mecheln in German, also known as the Dossin barracks, was a detention and deportation camp established in a former army barracks at Mechelen in German-occupied Belgium. It served as a point to gather Belgian Jews and Romani ahead of their deportation to concentration and extermination camps in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust. The camp was established in March 1942 and was the only transit camp in […]
Technopolis is a Flemish technology education centre located near Mechelen. Technopolis is an initiative which grew out of the Flanders Technology International (FTI) Foundation, which was an initiative of the Flemish government. Since 7 October 1999, the FTI offices are located within the premises of the Technopolis centre and the name of the organization was changed to Technopolis. The goal of the […]
Fort Breendonk is a former military installation at Breendonk, near Mechelen, in Belgium which served as a Nazi prison camp (Auffanglager) during the German occupation of Belgium during World War II. Fort Breendonk was requisitioned by the Schutzstaffel (SS) shortly after the Belgian surrender on 28 May 1940 and used as a prison camp for the detention of political prisoners, resistance members, and Jews. Although technically […]