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Mini-Europe receives 350,000 visitors per year [2] and has a turnover of €4 million. [3] Mini-Europe is the brainchild of Johannes A. Lorijn, who founded similar miniature parks in Austria and Spain. [4] The park contains live action models such as trains, mills, an erupting Mount Vesuvius, and cable cars. A guide gives the details on all the ...
Frans Jozef Peter (F. Jos.) van den Branden (14 June 1837 – 22 March 1922) was a Belgian playwright, art historian, civil servant, educator and archivist. He wrote in the Dutch language. He wrote in the Dutch language.
The Sint-Pietersplein with Our Lady of St. Peter's Church and St. Peter's Abbey View of the Sint-Pieterplein from the north side. The Sint-Pietersplein (Dutch pronunciation: [sɪnt ˈpiːtərsplɛin]; "St. Peter's Square") is a city square located in the south of the historic centre of Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium.
The building previously served as a greenhouse and was renamed Sportpaleis Gent. Because of its short track and unusually steep gradient, it was nicknamed "Kuipke" (English: Little Tub) . On 12 November 1962 the building was destroyed by fire, after which a second velodrome was opened on the same location in 1965.
Pieter-Frans De Noter (23 February 1779, Walen, near Mechelen – 22 November 1842, Ghent) was a Flemish painter of landscapes and interiors. Life and works.
Ghent (Dutch: Gent ⓘ; French: Gand ⓘ; historically known as Gaunt in English) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.It is the capital and largest city of the province of East Flanders, and the third largest in the country, after Brussels and Antwerp. [2]
There are also works by or after Lucas de Heere, one of which is a View of Gent. Frans Pourbus the Elder painted 14 panels representing the History of Saint Andrew (1572) and a Triptych of Viglius Aytta (1571). Caspar de Crayer is represented by paintings of St Macarius of Gent, The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist and The Martyrdom of Saint ...
Excerpt from the manuscript Poetic Works, 1807–1815. Written by Jan Frans Willems. [2] Hekeldicht op den maire en municipaliteyt van Bouchout (1807) Hymne aan het vaderland over den veldslag van Friedland en de daeropvolgende Vrede van Tilsit (1812) De puyn-hopen rondom Antwerpen (1814, poem) Den ryken Antwerpenaer of de hebzugtige neéven (1815)