IN FESTIVE FOOTSTEPS... BRUGGE
#abfav_urban_architectural
It is late afternoon this early Spring-day, this place a tangent piece of history, because my grandparents, my parents well, most of my family got married here, so I walk in their festive footsteps.
Bruges' City Hall dates from 1376, was built in 55 years, and is one of the oldest in the Netherlands, a fine example, copied by many, like Brussels, Ghent, Leuven.
From here, the city has been governed for almost 700 years.
The Bruges City Hall is one of the oldest city halls in the entire Netherlands region.
It is located in Burg Square, the area of the former fortified castle in the centre of Bruges, Belgium.
Responsibility for its construction was given to Jan Roegiers, and the project was completed, eventually, in 1421.
The City Hall is the earliest late Gothic monumental-style municipal council building in Flanders or Brabant: its flamboyant opulence testifies to the city's economic and political power.
The building's admirers highlight the effect of the "Brugian span", referring to the abundance of repeating systematically positioned niches encompassing the windows.
The statues under the stone baldachin-canopies on the building's facade have been renewed several times.
At the time of the French Revolution all the statues were destroyed. A small number of genuine pieces are now included in the collections of the city museum.
You see not only that building, on the left is the Chapel of the Holy Blood, on the right the Brugse Vrije and the entrance to the Blind Donkey-street.
I wish you a day full of beauty and thank you for your visit, Magda, (*_*)
ALL IMAGES ARE BEST seen On Black, yours too!
For more of my work: www.indigo2photography.com
Please do not use any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
IN FESTIVE FOOTSTEPS... BRUGGE
#abfav_urban_architectural
It is late afternoon this early Spring-day, this place a tangent piece of history, because my grandparents, my parents well, most of my family got married here, so I walk in their festive footsteps.
Bruges' City Hall dates from 1376, was built in 55 years, and is one of the oldest in the Netherlands, a fine example, copied by many, like Brussels, Ghent, Leuven.
From here, the city has been governed for almost 700 years.
The Bruges City Hall is one of the oldest city halls in the entire Netherlands region.
It is located in Burg Square, the area of the former fortified castle in the centre of Bruges, Belgium.
Responsibility for its construction was given to Jan Roegiers, and the project was completed, eventually, in 1421.
The City Hall is the earliest late Gothic monumental-style municipal council building in Flanders or Brabant: its flamboyant opulence testifies to the city's economic and political power.
The building's admirers highlight the effect of the "Brugian span", referring to the abundance of repeating systematically positioned niches encompassing the windows.
The statues under the stone baldachin-canopies on the building's facade have been renewed several times.
At the time of the French Revolution all the statues were destroyed. A small number of genuine pieces are now included in the collections of the city museum.
You see not only that building, on the left is the Chapel of the Holy Blood, on the right the Brugse Vrije and the entrance to the Blind Donkey-street.
I wish you a day full of beauty and thank you for your visit, Magda, (*_*)
ALL IMAGES ARE BEST seen On Black, yours too!
For more of my work: www.indigo2photography.com
Please do not use any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved