Giant Carpet Decorated with Flowers for the Fourth Time in Brussels’ Grand Place
The famous Grand Place Square, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Brussels, is hosting a magnificent flower carpet for the 23rd time this year. This year approximately 650 thousandprepared using dahlia flower, grass and tree bark 1680 square metersgiant carpet, street artist Oceane CornilleDesigned by.
This giant carpet attracts great attention from tourists. 70 meters longAnd 24 meters wideIt was completed by 100 volunteers in about six hours. The organizers say the carpet, designed with the central idea of a “double revolution”, aims to attract a younger and more diverse audience. This year, the use of aster flowers instead of the traditional Belgian begonia represents a radical change in the structure of the event.
The organizer of the event Koen Vondenbush, stated that this year’s carpet will be designed by a street artist and will add extraordinary color to the event. The dahlia flowers used in the production of the carpet make this iconic square in Brussels even more special.
The flower carpet displayed in the historic square in the center of Brussels, August 18thIt can be visited until . For the first time in Grand Place Square 1971The flower carpet event, which was launched in 1986It has been held every two years since 1970. Until now, begonias grown in Ghent, Belgium have generally been used.
Especially 2014The flower carpet prepared with Turkish carpet motifs in memory of the 50th anniversary of the migration of Turks to Belgium in 2017 revealed how culturally rich this event was.
