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The cave is overgrown with ivy and surrounded by dense greenery, creating a mysterious and idyllic atmosphere. You can also take shelter here if you're caught in a sudden rain shower.

Centennial Lourdes grotto in Wuustwezel to be demolished for new steel artwork: "But the symbolism of the place will be preserved" In Gooreind near Wuustwezel, the municipality has started the demolition of the Lourdes grotto. The grotto is already 100 years old and its stability is at risk due to concrete rot. The municipality therefore decided to demolish the grotto and replace it with a new artwork: "It will be really beautiful", says alderman Katrin Kempenaers (CD&V).

The outdoor pulpit with concrete canopy, which is overgrown with a canopy of ivy, is beautifully enthroned along the right side of the grotto. According to an old postcard, a large cross with a figure of Christ originally hung here. After the last major restoration, a Lorraine cross in neo-Gothic style was hung, but it has since been stolen. A tree trunk railing takes the preacher to the elevated spot. The concrete canopy that serves as a sounding board is apparently supported by concrete mast wood that is beautifully grained with high relief grooves. Here and there the bark has been removed. The space between two trunks seems to have been covered with clay. By far one of the most beautiful of its kind in Flanders!

The Ruien are the shadow of a rich past above ground. Ruien, vliets and vests have criss-crossed Antwerp since the Middle Ages. Source: ruien.be Source: Wikipedia.org The Antwerp canals form a system of 8 kilometers of underground city canals in the city of Antwerp. The city of Antwerp was originally built on low hills, between which water flowed. This water was used for the defense of the city, for trade, for the discharge of waste and as an open sewer. At the end of the Middle Ages, Antwerp was a real 'water city', with besides the canals also the vests, the vliets, a wood lake (the Meir) and of course the Scheldt. To have drinkable fresh water - after all, the canals were too polluted - the Herentalse Vaart was dug at the end of the 15th century, which branched off from Wommelgem to the Schijn and via the current Stadspark to the Wapper at the Rubenshuis or via the Houwer to the Brouwershuis on the Brouwersvliet. Source and more info: Wikipedia

currently under repair due to storm damage 13022024 completely restored to all its glory.

This cave of Our Lady of Lourdes was founded in 1952 by Gaston van den Berghe de Gilman, the last descendant of the de Gilman de Zevenbergen family that has inhabited the castle since 1766.

Located next to the court of Zevenbergen, at the end of the Kasteeldreef in Ranst.