Park van Tervuren
Sprawling former royal hunting grounds with French gardens, ponds and forest walking trails.
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This guide to Park van Tervuren in Brussels centers on the summer of 1897, when King Leopold II staged a colonial exhibition here, forcing roughly two hundred sixty Congolese men, women and children to live on display in fenced enclosures beside the ponds you see today. It follows what happened to seven of them when that summer turned cold and wet, and the sacred ground nearby that would not take them in. You'll also hear how the grand palace across the water grew directly out of that exhibition.
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