Flower Carpet Brussels 2018

Flower carpet 2018 16 august 2018 16 august 2018 admin be for the first time in its history the flower carpet on the brussels grand place adopts a latin american theme.

Flower carpet brussels 2018.

Video from brussels grand place. The event takes place every other august coordinating with assumption day. What better way to celebrate this than. Flower carpet 2018.

During the flower carpet dozens of carpet artists from all over the world gathered in the belgian capital for a floral unesco exhibition at brussels bourse square. The pattern of the flower carpet in 2018 is recognized as one of the most complex in the history of the belgian flower show. The 2018 theme of the flower carpet was mexico. It is home to brussels city hall which has the best view of the flower carpet.

His sketch was developed by mexican artist ana rosa aguilar aguado. Discover the flower carpet 2018 press release. The flower carpet is 70 m long by 24 m wide. In 2018 it was twenty years exactly since the grand place in brussels was recognised as a unesco world heritage site.

Opening hours and tickets more info on the opening hours and the tickets for the view. Discover the flower carpet 2016 press release. The flower carpet is a biennial event in brussels in which volunteers from around belgium convene at the grand place the historic centre of the city to weave a carpet like tapestry out of colorful begonias. Nearly a million flowers are required to create the ephemeral 1 800 square metres 19 000 square feet carpet.

A hundred volunteers assemble the carpet in less than eight hours. The first flower carpet of brussels was created in 1971 and has been a showstopper every two years on the grand place since 1986. The grand place itself is a gorgeous square built in the 1400s and has been a unesco world heritage site since 1998. Flower carpet 2016.

Every 2 years the grand place in brussels is covered with a flower carpet of begonias. The carpet of 77 m x 24 m is composed by about 120 volunteers with nearly 1 million begonias in less than 4 hours. This year the theme for the 21st edition of the flower carpet was guanajuato a state rich in culture that is located in central mexico.