Grand Place Flower Carpet

The flower carpet takes place in the center of brussels at the grand place.

Grand place flower carpet.

Bringing the beauty of nature to brussels the belgian capital will be captivating everyone s attention with its spectacular flower carpet made of thousands of begonias covering the famous grand place. In 1971 the belgian landscape architect e. The event takes place every other august coordinating with assumption day. Stautemans created the first unique flower carpet in belgium.

In just one morning belgian begonia cultivators decorate 1 800 m 2 of brussels grand place with a beautiful floral carpet using over 600 000 begonias depicting a theme in 2018 the theme was be guanajuato cultural pride of mexico. Around 300 begonias per square meter are assembled flower by flower by over 100 volunteers. He paved the grand place square in brussels with thousands flowers that created a splendid carpet. Every 2 years the grand place in brussels is covered with a flower carpet of begonias.

The 2018 theme of the flower carpet was mexico. This place is very easy to access by public transportation by bike or by car. Opening hours and tickets. 600 000 flowers used to create colorful carpet stretching across 1 800 square meters by leah pellegrini on august 26 2016 for a few fleeting days earlier this august an exquisite ephemeral carpet of fresh flowers graced the cobblestone at grand place the central square in brussels belgium.

The carpet of 77 m x 24 m is composed by about 120 volunteers with nearly 1 million begonias in less than 4 hours. Since then biennially in middle august the square which is surrounded by ancient buildings is covered with a giant flowers carpet. The flower carpet is a biennial event in brussels in which volunteers from around belgium convene at the grand place the historic centre of the city to weave a carpet like tapestry out of colorful begonias. The enchanting building is transformed into an idyllic place for a stroll.

Brussels flower carpet brings mexican cultural jewel guanajuato to the centre of europe 20th anniversary of the grand place as a unesco world heritage site celebrated with an extraordinary floral exhibition at brussels bourse square for the first time in its history the flower carpet on the brussels grand place adopts a latin american theme.