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🇧🇪 Herwig Aertbeliën
March 29, 2026
Hiking
De Kleine Zavel is a true hidden gem in Brussels and a feast for lovers of history and architecture. This charming park, in Flemish neo-Renaissance style and located opposite the Church of Our Lady of the Sablon, feels like an open-air museum full of stories.
Stroll past the graceful statues and discover how 48 figures bring the old Brussels guilds to life. Additionally, other sculptures honour great 16th-century thinkers like Mercator and Ortelius. Even the garden itself is full of symbolism: the carefully pruned boxwoods refer to the former Belgian provinces, with the crown as a symbol of the kingdom.
Stroll past the graceful statues and discover how 48 figures bring the old Brussels guilds to life. Additionally, other sculptures honour great 16th-century thinkers like Mercator and Ortelius. Even the garden itself is full of symbolism: the carefully pruned boxwoods refer to the former Belgian provinces, with the crown as a symbol of the kingdom.
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🇧🇪 Herwig Aertbeliën
March 30, 2026
Hiking
In the front garden of the Egmont Palace, the small Zavelparkje where Counts Egmont & Horne and 60 statues have taken up position, is ideal visual material for a brief refresher of our national history. The beheading of Egmont and Horne was the starting signal for the Eighty Years' War (1568 -1648). The counts became the founders of the liberal nation-state, rebels who had defended freedom and tolerance against the fanatical Catholic Spanish King.
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Jens Dreißig
August 3, 2025
Hiking
around the edge of the park as well as around the monument in the park several beautiful sculptures
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