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On the Road and In Your Backyard

by Alain Chamot (1971-2020)|  October 26, 20185:00 am| 6 Comments

This post is in: On The Road, Open Threads, Readership Capture

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On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.

From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.

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Good Morning All,

On The Road and In Your Backyard is a weekday feature spotlighting reader submissions. From the exotic to the familiar, please share your part of the world, whether you’re traveling or just in your locality. Share some photos and a narrative, let us see through your pictures and words. We’re so lucky each and every day to see and appreciate the world around us!

Submissions from commenters are welcome at tools.balloon-juice.com

Sorry I missed Africa this week, it’s been an overwhelming week and I rushed the posts. I’ve got some awesome posts overdue for folks, so I’ll make good on those this coming week. Have a great weekend, everybody!

Today, pictures from valued commenter otmar.

This is the second batch of pictures from my early October trip to Brussels.

Last week’s installment focused on the main square, the Grote Markt, this week I’ll show you some of the other snapshots I took.

From Wikipedia

A chapel dedicated to St. Michael was probably built on the Treurenberg hill as early as the 9th century. In the 11th century it was replaced by a Romanesque church. In 1047, Lambert II, Count of Leuven founded a chapter in this church and organized the transportation of the relics of the martyr St. Gudula, housed before then in Saint Gaugericus Church on Saint-Géry Island. The patron saints of the church, St. Michael and St. Gudula, are also the patron saints of the city of Brussels.

In the thirteenth century, Henry I, Duke of Brabant ordered two round towers to be added to the church. Henry II, Duke of Brabant instructed the building of a Gothic collegiate church in 1226. The choir was constructed between 1226 and 1276. It took about 300 years to complete the entire church. It was completed just before the reign of the emperor Charles V commenced in 1519.

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The bust in the square is King Baudouin (1930 – 1993).

This is the old building of the Brussels stock exchange. From its website:

“Built in 1873, on the former site of the convent des Recollets, it was designed by the architect Léon Suys. Rodin collaborated on the exterior decoration of the building as an employee of Carrier-Belleuse. While the former became a famous sculptor, the latter is a name familiar only to specialists now. Of neoclassical inspiration, its simplicity is broken by very ornate decorations that have been described by some people as baroque excesses. ”

It is no longer used for its original purpose.

The Bourse is housing a multimedia exhibit celebrating and animating the works of van Gogh.

Inside the main hall, projectors light up all walls and display all the famous paintings. The added twist is that they animated parts of the painting: the drawn sea shifts in waves, the ship actually moves across the canvas and all this breathes some live into the pictures.

See Youtube for an impression on how this looks like.

We talked a lot about this famous statue, so here he is dressed up in the regalia of his very own order of the friends of Manneken Pis.

I walked past the Opera House.

In my back is “De Brouckere”, a large administrative building with a shopping mall and two crossing subways underneath.

 

Thank you so much otmar, do send us more when you can.

 

Travel safely everybody, and do share some stories in the comments, even if you’re joining the conversation late. Many folks confide that they go back and read old threads, one reason these are available on the Quick Links menu.

 

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  1. 1.

    JPL

    October 26, 2018 at 5:16 am

    Thanks Otmar.

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    otmar

    October 26, 2018 at 8:24 am

    I’m on the road (actually: rail) again, a 4 day trip with the family to Salzburg and Munich.

    The weather forecast is rather wet, this sound like more museums than ordinary sight-seeing. We’ll see if I can snap some pictures worth sharing here.

  3. 3.

    JPL

    October 26, 2018 at 8:57 am

    @otmar: Wahoo More pictures please.

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    arrieve

    October 26, 2018 at 9:33 am

    I love Brussels. I had never been there until late last year, but I passed through twice on my way to/from Rwanda and I loved it. Also went to Ghent, which was unbelievably beautiful. The Van Gogh exhibit looks very cool.

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    J R in WV

    October 26, 2018 at 9:56 am

    Wonderful pictures, again, Otmar. Thanks so much.

    We saw an exhibit of da Vinci material in Florence, it was in an abandoned church turned into a museum, with projectors all around in what had been the sanctuary, with animations using da Vinci’s designs and art. It was very interesting, but hard to photograph.

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    Mary Ellen Sandahl

    October 26, 2018 at 8:00 pm

    Thanks, Otmar – you’re a good photographer.
    And what Van Gogh would think of that exhibit, it’s hard to know!
    The cathedral photo is lovely – and the portrait of King Baudouin in front instantly reminded me of the great recording of the MIssa Luba sung by the Congolese youth choir, Les Troubadours du Roi Baudouin, released back in the late 1950s

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