The Liedtspark in Oudenaarde, East Flanders, not only has a whole series of follies in store, but on the edge of the park, you will also find a transformer house that has been given the contours of a medieval castle tower.
Things-to-do in East Flanders, nearby Ghent.
The Liedtspark in Oudenaarde, East Flanders, not only has a whole series of follies in store, but on the edge of the park, you will also find a transformer house that has been given the contours of a medieval castle tower.
Two hundred years ago, in 1823, the Ghent city architect Louis Roelandt started establishing the first gas factory on the Waalse Krook, specifically on the site where the Ghent city library now stands.
Almost thirty years after the construction of this useless bridge, the planned regional road underneath has still not been constructed. Instead of cars rushing by, nature is given free rein for now.
In the East Flemish village of Basel, there is a two-hundred-year-old suspension bridge that engineer Jean-Baptiste Vifquain designed on behalf of Philippe Vilain XIIII, a Dutch King William I chamberlain.
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