Grand Place
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Saint-Omer, France
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Apr 9, 2009
The Grand Place is the centre of the historic town and the stage for the annual mock-battle of the Lumeçon . The City Hall, originally built near the current location of the belfry , was moved on the Grand Place in the 13th century. The flamboyant gothic building we see today dates from the 15th century. In front of it stands a statue of a monkey, which is said to bring good fortune to those who pat his head.
Jun 8, 2009
the Grand Place of Brussels is this monumental structure that impresses for the immense power and wealth it displays, and associated with civic buildings, not palaces or castles as is usual in europe: here you have a place that was actually built by and for commoners, in what his one of the first displays of how high (literally) an association of workers can get.
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