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4 Comments CherryPie on Apr 3rd 2016
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Wolvenpoort
The two half-relief figures of wolves above the gateway are the only remainders of this edifice. The right-hand wall runs steeply up toward the Naamestraat to a ruin that is accesible via an outside staircase. The gateway appears to be an archway, but it was probably a wall tower in which a passageway to the [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Sep 14th 2015
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Michael the Archangel
3 Comments CherryPie on Sep 12th 2015
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The Cathedral of Saints Michael and Gudule – Interior
Owing to the ransackings by Protestant iconoclasts in 1579 and thefts by French Revolutionists in 1793, the interior of the cathedral is far less rich than it was in medieval times. It nonetheless contains some fine stained glass, such as the Last Judgement Window, dating from 1528, on the west front of the cathedral, facing [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Sep 11th 2015
Although it is the national church of Belgium. Cathedrale Sts-Michel-et-Gudule was granted cathedral status only in 1962. It was built with a sandy limestone brought from the local quarries and is one of the finest surviving examples of Brabant Gothic Gothic architecture
There has been a church on the site of the cathedral since at least [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Sep 10th 2015
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Leuven 2015
Self Portrait in a Train Window
4 Comments CherryPie on Sep 8th 2015
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Parc de Bruxelles
Palace of the Nation houses the parliament today. This forms an harmonious part of the perspective of Parc de Bruxelles. A symbolic site of the Belgian revolution of 1830, it was occupied by the people of Brussels during the attack against the Dutch.*
*From Brussels Guide – Collection ‘Beautiful Belgium’
2 Comments CherryPie on Sep 7th 2015
