Carpet Of Flowers Brussels 2018

The carpet of 77 m x 24 m is composed by about 120 volunteers with.

Carpet of flowers brussels 2018.

In brussels belgium opened the famous flower show flower carpet. From 13 to 16 august 2020 at the grand place in brussels. Unfortunately the 2020 brussels flower carpet was cancelled due to covid 19. The event takes place every other august coordinating with assumption day.

In 2018 it was twenty years exactly since the grand place in brussels was recognised as a unesco world heritage site. The carpet of 77 m x 24 m is composed by about 120 volunteers with nearly 1 million begonias in less than 4 hours. Every 2 years the grand place in brussels is covered with a flower carpet of begonia and this year are form 16 19 august. During the flower carpet dozens of carpet artists from all over the world gathered in the belgian capital for a floral unesco exhibition at brussels bourse square.

The flowering star of the brussels flower carpet is the begonia and. 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. The floral splendour in front of the town hall on the grand place the central square of brussels is 47 years old this year.

The grand place square 1000 brussels belgium the brussels flower carpet is a special event that takes place once every two years in brussels where the grand place square is transformed into a mass of colour. What better way to celebrate this than. Every 2 years the grand place in brussels is covered with a flower carpet of begonias. A hundred volunteers assemble the carpet in less than eight 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 flower carpet is 70 m long by 24 m wide. More precisely it shows one flower begonia. The 2018 theme of the flower carpet was mexico.

News for those who love begonias. Opening hours and tickets more info on the opening hours and the tickets for the view. 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 grand place itself is a gorgeous square built in the 1400s and has been a unesco world heritage site since 1998.

Awaiting dates 2021 2022 where. Belgian flower growers bested the summer s blistering heat to lay out 500 000 blossoms on the central square of brussels on august 16 in this year s edition. 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. It is home to brussels city hall which has the best view of the flower carpet.