Friday, 13. August 2004
Topic: NEWS english - on August 13, 2004 at 11:25:00 AM CEST
Flowery carpet for Brussels
How to improve a city plaza where a wispy Gothic spire towers over exquisitely preserved medieval guild houses, a market square that writer Victor Hugo, a one-time resident, called Europe's most beautiful?
Belgians try to do it with flowers. For one weekend every two years, they carpet the Grand Place with about 800,000 begonia blossoms, creating intricate designs evoking images ranging from archangels to the gardens of Versailles.
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