View allAll Photos Tagged Note4
Detail of the stuff under the tub. The plumbers need to access the sanitary T and the ideal bend; lucky us, it was under the tub. We're now in "worst case scenario" as far as how long it will take.
Belgium.
Heysel Plateau and the royal parks
www.environment.brussels/fiche/heysel-plateau-and-royal-p...
Sobieski Park and the Colonial Gardens
The land for Sobieski Park was originally purchased by King Léopold II in 1903 to further increase the size of the royal estate. The king, who wanted a fruit garden, arranged for the park to be planted with numerous different varieties of fruit tree. At one time, the garden contained 50 different types of pear trees and 60 types of apple trees! Greenhouses were used for vines as well as orange, peach and apricot trees. In 1975, the Royal Trust handed over the park to turn it into a public garden. The former orchard and hay meadow occupy the central part of the garden, contrasting with the trellised orchard, situated higher up, and path bordered by sculpted hornbeam hedgerows. The site is planted with Chinese willow, Turkish hazel, ash fen woods and plane trees, with the weeping willows surrounding the pond reflected in its surface.
Close by, a wooded area, also purchased by King Léopold II in 1905, and which would later become the Colonial Garden, covers an area of 3 hectares. The monarch wanted to use the space to construct greenhouses for the collections of tropical plants brought back from the Congo by botanist Émile Laurent. With no heating available during the war, most of the plants died, and those that did survive had to wait until 1951 to be transferred to the Botanical Garden of Meise. However, a number of horse chestnut, balsam poplar, copper beech, black locust and elderberry trees still stand today. In the early 1960s, the greenhouses were demolished and the park was definitively transformed into a public space. One can’t miss the handsome, Norman-style half-timbered villa designed by architect Haneau. (Listed 11/06/1998)
visit.brussels/en/sites/heritage/place/Sobieski-Park-and-...
Brussels.
Sobieski park
Created at the beginning of the last century, this is above all a park for walking and recreation; it is also a part of the Brussels “green network” that, in this capacity, plays an ecological role in the Brussels landscape. SobieskiPark was not originally a public park. It was part of the royal gardens of Leopold II and produced fruit for the court.
A wooded bed runs along the two streets that border the garden. A 3000-square-metre body of water, now colonised by numerous palmipeds, has been excavated in the lower portion.
In the centre of the garden, some tall stock fruit trees have been planted in a large mowed meadow. This leads to the upper portion, where espaliered fruit trees and a very beautiful bed of rhododendrons grow.
A colony of Egyptian geese lives around the pond, and a fox has chosen to live on the site. Four plant specimens are on the Brussels list of remarkable trees. Others are worth a detour, such as a magnificent catalpa and an impressive weeping willow.
The meadow is only mowed once or twice a year, and thus has become a natural space that contrasts with the rest of the park, maintained by the gardeners of Brussels Environment.
Info da:
it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_Reale_di_Torino
Il Palazzo Reale di Torino è la prima e più importante tra le residenze sabaude in Piemonte, teatro della politica del regno sabaudo per almeno tre secoli.
È collocato nel cuore della città, nella Piazzetta Reale adiacente alla centralissima Piazza Castello, da cui si dipartono le principali arterie del centro storico: via Po, via Roma, via Garibaldi e via Pietro Micca.
Rappresenta il cuore della corte sabauda, simbolo del potere della dinastia e, congiuntamente alle altre dimore reali della cintura torinese, come la reggia di Venaria Reale, la Palazzina di caccia di Stupinigi o il castello del Valentino, è parte integrante dei beni dichiarati dall'Unesco quali Patrimonio dell'Umanità.
Nel 2013 il circuito museale di palazzo Reale, Galleria Sabauda, Armeria Reale e Museo di antichità è stato il ventiseiesimo sito statale italiano più visitato, con 229.534 visitatori e un introito lordo totale di 1.006.536,20 Euro
Brussels, Anderlecht.
Vijverpark
Walking from Vijverpark to Pedepark.
These parks are part of the "Groene wandeling" (dutch or "Promenade verte" (french) meaning green hike.
Brussels has quite a lot of green open spaces, ponds and forests.
The map (Araschnia levana) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is common throughout the lowlands of central and eastern Europe, and is expanding its range in western Europe. A. levana was found in northern Scandinavia on May 30, 1973, in south-eastern Finland, in Lauritsala, by a young lepidopterist, Mr Jouko E. Hokka. The specimen was the first known A. levana in northern Europe, excluding Denmark.