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Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Mechelen 2014
The Palace of the Great Council
16 Comments CherryPie on Apr 18th 2014
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Mechelen 2014
Mechelen Town Hall
The present day Town Hall in Mechelan is situated on the Grote Markt:
It consists of two parts: the cloth hall with unfinished belfry and the Palace of the Great Council. Why wasn’t the belfry ever finished? The cloth trade went into decline in the fourteenth century and there wasn’t the money to complete the building. [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Apr 17th 2014
Filed under Art, Holidays, Mechelen 2014
Opsinjoorke
As well as the Moon Extinguishers (see previous post) the flags flying over the centre of Mechelen also show Opsinjoorke in flight:
The bronze statue in front of the Town Hall shows Opsinjoorke in full flight. The original doll was made in 1647. It is carried in ceremonial and religious processions and thrown into the air [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Apr 15th 2014
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Moon Extinguishers
The people of Mechelen are sometime nicknamed Maneblussers (Moon Extinguishers):
On the night of January 27th/28th 1687 St Rumbold’s Tower was shrouded in mist. A none too sober tippler emerged from an inn on the Grote Markt. He suddenly saw that the tower was on fire and immediately raised the alarm.
The whole city was thrown into confusion, the [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Apr 14th 2014
Filed under Art, Faith Foundations, Holidays, Mechelen 2014
Madonna and Child
10 Comments CherryPie on Apr 11th 2014
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Mechelen 2014
Mechelen
For my birthday I had been given a copy of Bradshaw’s Handbook and found the descriptions of the towns quite delightful. So with a book voucher I received for Christmas I treated myself to Bradshaw’s Continental Railway Guide.
I looked up Mechelen within it’s pages and found that in 1913 when the book was published the [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Apr 9th 2014
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Mechelen 2014
After We Have Rested a While…
… it is time to enjoy a few features of the hotel before we retire for some well earned sleep.
16 Comments CherryPie on Apr 8th 2014
