Koningin Astridpark
Landscaped garden on a former monastery site, centred on a pond and a cast-iron eighteen-fifties bandstand.
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This guide to Koningin Astridpark in Bruges starts with an arithmetic problem: the city paid fifty thousand francs in 1850 for three walled hectares of a former Recollect monastery garden, yet barely half that land is park today. You'll hear how the council carved the site into thirds for a new parish church, an expanded prison and the public garden the growing city had been asking for, and how the Leuven landscape architect Egidius Rosseels laid out its winding paths and central pond from 1851. Look for the octagonal kiosk beside the pond, and note the join between its stone base and everything above it.
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