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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 ...
Map of the European microstates Monaco. A European microstate or European ministate is a very small sovereign state in Europe.In modern usage, it typically refers to the six smallest states in Europe by area: Andorra, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco, San Marino, and Vatican City (the Holy See). [1]
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]
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.
Below is a list of European countries and dependencies by area in Europe. [1] As a continent, Europe's total geographical area is about 10 million square kilometres. [2] ...
Ten years after its founding, the stem puppet theater Het Spelleke van Folklore, the former Spelleke van de Muide, found a home in the museum and it has remained there until today. The Folklore Museum moved from Lange Steenstraat to the Children's Alijn Hospital on Kraanlei in 1962 and was renamed the Museum of Folklore.
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.