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Once every two years, the Grand Place, a central market in Brussles, Belgium becomes one of the largest flower gardens in the world. This year people could admire a beautiful flower carpet between the 14th and 17th of August, for those of you that missed it, there’s always two years from now.
The flower carpet of Grand Place has a different model every time and it’s made out of roughly 700,000 begonias. This is definitely one of the must see- attractions of Brussels.
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12 comments
August 22, 2008
this is fucking cool
August 31, 2008
Netherlands is the homeland of flowers. I don’t know why they decided to build this carpet with begonias instead of tulips
September 2, 2008
@humoric
Was that supposed to be funny? Really? Brussels in the Netherlands?
That was a joke wasn’t it? C’mon, it was. Wasn’t it? Please? Say it was…
September 2, 2008
They probably didn’t use tulips because this is Belgium, not the Netherlands. It wouldn’t make sense to deliberately change their design to incorporate the national flower of a /neighbouring/ country.
September 2, 2008
The Netherlands can be the homeland of flowers. But Brussels is still the capital of Belgium….
September 2, 2008
probably because it’s belgium and not the netherlands…
September 3, 2008
Humoric, a. This is Belgium and not the Netherlands, and b. it is August therefore no tulips.
September 3, 2008
Freaking Chill…
September 3, 2008
NOT!!!!!!1 >:)
September 8, 2008
Yup, went there, quite amazing in real-life. Don’t stay there though, go to Gent and Brugge if you get a chance.
October 1, 2008
Aaahh the good old motherland. beer, waffles, Chocolate, and “french” fries
October 1, 2008
besides, tulips don’t bloom in August… and the blooms are not exactly carpet width…