BrusselsPictures.com » Theme park http://www.brusselspictures.com Photo Blog Covering the City of Brussels, Belgium Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:23:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Mini Europe http://www.brusselspictures.com/2008/06/19/mini-europe/ http://www.brusselspictures.com/2008/06/19/mini-europe/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:35:07 +0000 admin http://www.brusselspictures.com/?p=155 The theme park of Mini-Europe is one of outstanding quality where all the countries in the European Union are represented here in 1:25 scale models of buildings of socio-cultural, historic and symbolic interest.
The 6 acre wide park includes the Acropolis of Athens, Danish houses from the days of the Vikings, Leuven town hall, the austere monastery of El Escorial commissioned by Philip II to the northwest of Madrid, houses lining Amsterdam’s canals (17C), the English city of Bath which is a masterpiece of 18C town planning, the Pompidou Center in Paris etc.

There is here definitely something for everybody’s taste: Lovers of history, enthusiasts of the European Union, people remembering their latest journey, people preparing their next tour or simply people having a nice stroll.

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Here are the photos of just about all the 1:25 scale models featured in Mini-Europe by Country and alphabetic order:

Austria

Melk Abbey

Belgium

Alden Biesen

Antwerp Town Hall

Belfrey and Halles of Bruges

Berlaymont

Celles Veves Castle

Dinant Collegiate

Gent

Grand Place City Hall (Model took 19 000 hours of work valued at 350 000 €)

Tapis de Fleurs Grand Place

Flower Carpet of La Grand Place viewed from another angle

Curtis House of Liège

Leuven Town Hall

Bulgaria

Monastery of Rila

Cyprus

Limassol

Czech Republic

Prague old Town Hall


Denmark

Copenhagen new harbour

Stock exchange of Copenhagen

Finland

Olavinlinna Castle

France

Arc de Triomphe

Arc et Senans

Chenonceaux

Clos Vougeot

Eiffel Tower

Sacre-Coeur at Montmartre

Centre Georges Pompidou

Notre-Dame-du-Haut at Ronchamps

Germany

Berlin

Brandenburger

Bonn

Eltz

Lubeck

Spire Cathedral

Wies Church

Trier Porta Nigra

Greece

Athens Parthenon

Acropolis

Hungary

Budapest

Szechenyi Baths

Ireland

Cashel St.Patrick Rock

Glendalough Ballydavid

Italy

Alberobello

Campanile of Pise

Great Romanesque Cathedral of Pise

Siena’s Palazzo Publico

Venice

Lithuania

University of Vilnius

Luxembourg

Pont Adolphe bridge

Malta

Temple of Mnajdra

The Nederlands

Alkmaar

Amsterdam

Hoensbroek Castle

Kinderdijk Mills

Maastricht Town Hall

Orvelte

Veere

Poland

Gdansk

Portugal

Algarve

Guimaraes

Lisbon’s Torre de Belem

Porto

Romania

Mogosoaia

Slovakia

Bratislava Blue Church

Spain

El Escorial

La Mancha

Santiago de Compostela

Seville

Plaza De Toros

Sweden

Stockholm City Hall

United Kingdom

Bath

Dover

Jumbo Ferry

London Houses of Parliament

Longleat

Other Various Miniature Models

Ferris Wheel

Boat

Oil rig

On the way out going through the Spirit of Europe interactive exhibition

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