Showing posts with label flower carpet. Show all posts
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Saturday, August 21, 2010

Brussels Webcam - City Parade 2010 Live

The City Parade is a festival of electronic dance music which will be held in Brussels on 21 August 2010. The 10th edition of the festival will take place around the Atomium, with a parade of trucks and several concerts on 3 stages.

This live web cam feed is in Brussels on the day of the parade:

Brussels webcam

Stage 1 (Fuse) (in front of Brussels Expo)
Stage 2 (Versuz) (Boulevard du Centenaire, other side of the Atomium)
Stage 3 (La Rocca) (at the Avenue du Gros Tilleul)

The City Parade will close with an after party at Palace 5 of Brussels Expo, from 10 pm to 6 am. Ticket price 25 euro

Location Information:

Brussels, officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region (French: Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Dutch: Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest is the de facto capital city of the European Union (EU) and the largest urban area in Belgium. It comprises 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels proper, which is the constitutional capital of Belgium, Flanders, the Flemish Community, and the French Community of Belgium.

Brussels has grown from a 10th-century fortress town founded by a descendant of Charlemagne into a metropolis of more than one million inhabitants. The metropolitan area has a population of over 1.8 million, making it the largest in Belgium

Friday, August 13, 2010

Brussels Flower Carpet 2010 Webcam in Grand Place

Every two years in August, an enormous "flower carpet" is set up in Brussels Grand Place for a few days. A million colourful begonias are set up in patterns, and the display covers a total of 1,800 square metres. The first flower carpet was made in 1971, and due to its popularity, the tradition continued, with the flower carpet attracting a large number of tourists.

You can watch this year's flower carpet live on the Grand place webcam:

Brussels webcam

Location Information:

The Grand Place or Grote Markt is the central square of Brussels. It is surrounded by guildhalls, the city's Town Hall, and the Breadhouse (French: Maison du Roi, Dutch: Broodhuis). The square is the most important tourist destination and most memorable landmark in Brussels, along with the Atomium and Manneken Pis. It measures 68 by 110 metres (223 by 360 ft), and it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

In the 10th century, Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine constructed a fort on Saint-Géry Island, the point at which the Senne river became navigable. This was the seed of what would become Brussels. By the end of the 11th century, an open-air marketplace was set up on a dried-out marsh near the fort that was surrounded by sandbanks. The market was called the Nedermerckt, or Lower Market.