The Plantin-Moretus Museum is a printing museum in Antwerp, Belgium which focuses on the work of the 16th-century printers Christophe Plantin and Jan Moretus. It is located in their former residence and printing establishment, the Plantin Press, at the Vrijdagmarkt (Friday Market) in Antwerp, and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2005.
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The Basilica of the Holy Blood is a Roman Catholic Basilica in Bruges, Belgium. The church houses a relic of the Holy Blood allegedly collected by Joseph of Arimathea and brought from the Holy Land by Thierry of Alsace, Count of Flanders. Built between 1134 and 1157 as the chapel of the Count of Flanders, it was promoted to a minor basilica in 1923.
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Knokke is a town in the municipality of Knokke-Heist, which is located in the province of West Flanders in Flanders, Belgium. The town itself has 15,708 inhabitants (2007), while the municipality of Knokke-Heist has 33,818 inhabitants (2009).
Knokke is the most north-eastern seaside resort on the Belgian coast. It lies adjacent to the Dutch border; separated from the Dutch territory by the Zwin nature reserve. Knokke came into existence as a result of the construction of dikes that were to protect the area around the 'Zwin' sea-arm.
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Nicknamed the "Queen of Beaches", Oostende is a coastal city located in the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium known for its sea-side esplanade, including the Royal Galleries of Ostend, pier, and fine-sand beaches.
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The elegantly-appointed Kursaal Pleasure Palace was one of the premiere entertainment complexes in Europe in the 1920s. The Casino Kursaal situated on the Digue, the chief promenade, was without doubt a pleasure palace without equal and was described as ‘the great, soul searching, musical stage of the world’s finest artists’. The original Kursaal was a timber framed building built in 1852 and designed by Hendrik Bevaert. The second building erected in 1865 was stone built with oriental cupolas and domes. In the third phase the old building was demolished and in 1875 the architect Alban Chambon created an Oriental fairy tale palace in a magnificent Byzantine style.
The Kursaal became the center of fashionable life in Ostende; its prestige really took off in the 1920s under the direction of Edmund Sayag who had taken responsible for revitalizing Ostende after the destruction of the First World War. He became renowned for staging spectacular summer shows during the height of the season usually from the end of May to the end of September.
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