Citadelpark
Hilltop park on a former Dutch citadel, home to art museums, a bandstand and a World Fair hall.
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This guide to Citadelpark in Ghent follows Leonidas Kestekides, a Greek sweet-maker born in Cappadocia who had sold wine in Italy and made confectionery in New York and Paris, as he arrives at the great International Exposition of nineteen thirteen. It looks at the temporary city of pavilions that filled these slopes after the old Dutch citadel was cleared away. Best heard on the hill facing the Floralies hall, built for that same fair.
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