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About 2,000 [1] The Procession of the Golden Tree ( Dutch : Praalstoet van de Gouden Boom ) or Pageant of the Golden Tree (Dutch: Gouden Boomstoet ) is a historical pageant held in Bruges , Belgium , every five years to commemorate the celebrations held there in July 1468 for the wedding of Charles the Bold and Margaret of York .
Frommer's Belgium, Holland & Luxembourg. Frommer's Complete. Vol. 634 (11, illustrated ed.). Frommer's. p. 478. ISBN 978-0-470-38227-1. Attribution. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: United Services Magazine. December 1835.
Frommer's (/ ˈ f r oʊ m ər z /) is a travel guide book series created by Arthur Frommer in 1957. Frommer's has since expanded to include more than 350 guidebooks in 14 series, as well as other media including an eponymous radio show and a website.
Many aspects of folklore are manifested in public processions and parades in Belgian cities; traditions which are kept alive for the amusement of locals and tourists alike. The term folklore (which is rendered identically in both French and Dutch ) is used in Belgium in a much wider sense than in English, chiefly to denote all cultural events ...
1. Brussels: Éditions de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale. Hannequart, Jean-Pierre; Schamp, Eric; Pulings, Marie-Claude (1996). Découvrir Bruxelles par ses Espaces Verts (in French). Brussels: Institut bruxellois pour la Gestion de l'Environnement, Commission communautaire française. McDonald, George (2011). Frommer's Belgium, Holland and ...
'Festival of the Cats') is a parade in Ypres, Belgium, devoted to the cat. It has been running regularly since 1955 and is usually held triennially on the second Sunday of May. [ 3 ] The parade commemorates an Ypres tradition from the Middle Ages in which cats were allegedly thrown from the belfry tower of the Cloth Hall to the town square below.
Monument to the 674 civilian casualties of Dinant's "Teutonic fury" on August 23, 1914, including 116 shot on this site.. From August 5 to 26, 1914, the Imperial German Army put more than 5,000 civilians under fire in a hundred Walloon villages and destroyed more than 15,000 houses, including 600 in Visé and 1,100 in Dinant, which represents 70% of the destruction carried out in France and ...
Map: The forts of Namur on uMap. The fortified position of Namur (French: position fortifiée de Namur [PFN]) was established by Belgium after the First World War to fortify the traditional invasion corridor between Germany and France through Belgium.