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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 ...
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.
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]
The Gravensteen (Dutch; lit. ' the Counts' rock ') is a medieval castle in the city of Ghent, East Flanders in Belgium.The current castle dates from 1180 and was the residence of the Counts of Flanders until 1353.
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 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.
Sint-Amandsberg (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌsɪnt ɑˈmɑntsbɛr(ə)x]; French: Mont-Saint-Amand) is a sub-municipality of the city of Ghent located in the province of East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium.
Gent-Sint-Pieters railway station with the glass canopy. The origins of the railway station is a small station on the Ghent–Ostend line in 1881. At that time, the main railway station of Ghent was the South railway station, built in 1837. At the occasion of the 1913 International Exposition in Ghent, a new Sint-Pieters railway station was built.