Flower Carpet Belgium 2017

This year s flower carpet used barks and other precious materials like sand soil and other pigments to create the colorful carpet.

Flower carpet belgium 2017.

The enchanting building is transformed into an idyllic place for a stroll. A hundred volunteers assemble the carpet in less than eight hours. A flower is a thing of beauty and a joy forever to quote poet john keats. The flowertime festival is back in belgium once again.

The carpet of 77 m x 24 m is composed by about 120 volunteers with nearly 1 million begonias in less than 4 hours. The elaborate patterns and colours are planned well ahead of time and then displayed in a single tableau on the cobblestones of the town square. The first brussels flower carpet was created in 1971 and it s been a stunning showstopper ever since. Belgium is weird the 2012 theme for the brussels flower carpet was generically.

The 2018 theme of the flower carpet was mexico. Since 1986 the 19 375 square foot mosaic of 700 000 intricately arranged begonias comes to life every two years for five days during august in the grand place the central square of the european capital city. Imagine hundreds of thousands of flowers arranged in. Nearly a million flowers are required to create the ephemeral 1 800 square metres 19 000 square feet carpet.

1 680 m2 of begonias dahlias grass and bark. A carpet of 750 000 flowers blooms in belgium to celebrate the 50th anniversary of turkish workers migrating to belgium a colorful flower carpet has bloomed in brussels. The process for making a flower carpet seems to be pretty involved and involves lots of planning. Brussels flower carpet once every two years the rectangular shaped square at the grand place turns into a carpet of fresh flowers dubbed the flower carpet or flowercarpet.

Opening hours and tickets more info on the opening hours and the tickets for the view. The 2018 flower carpet in brussels belgium. 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 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.

Every 2 years the grand place in brussels is covered with a flower carpet of begonias. The event takes place every other august coordinating with assumption day. Tourists might have to wait another year to view the flower carpet but the grand place will still be filled with its fair share of bouquets this august. From 13 to 16 august 2020 at the grand place in brussels.