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.
Flower carpet brussels 2018.
What better way to celebrate this than.
The grand place itself is a gorgeous square built in the 1400s and has been a unesco world heritage site since 1998.
The first flower carpet of brussels was created in 1971 and has been a showstopper every two years on the grand place since 1986.
This year the theme for the 21st edition of the flower carpet was guanajuato a state rich in culture that is located in central mexico.
Discover the flower carpet 2016 press release.
In 2018 it was twenty years exactly since the grand place in brussels was recognised as a unesco world heritage site.
A life size carpet collected from nearly a million colors of begonias on the square a hundred volunteers under the direction unchanged the main designer.
His sketch was developed by mexican artist ana rosa aguilar aguado.
The carpet of 77 m x 24 m is composed by about 120 volunteers with nearly 1 million begonias in less than 4 hours.
Opening hours and tickets more info on the opening hours and the tickets for the view.
Flower carpet 2018.
The pattern of the flower carpet in 2018 is recognized as one of the most complex in the history of the belgian flower show.
Video from brussels grand place.
Discover the flower carpet 2018 press release.
Flower carpet 2018 16 august 2018 16 august 2018 admin be for the first time in its history the flower carpet on the brussels grand place adopts a latin american theme.
From 13 to 16 august 2020 at the grand place in brussels.
A hundred volunteers assemble the carpet in less than eight hours.
It is home to brussels city hall which has the best view of the flower carpet.
Every 2 years the grand place in brussels is covered with a flower carpet of begonias.
Nearly a million flowers are required to create the ephemeral 1 800 square metres 19 000 square feet carpet.
Flower carpet 2016.
The 2018 theme of the flower carpet was mexico.
1 680 m2 of begonias dahlias grass and bark.