Flower Carpet Brussels 2018

A hundred volunteers assemble the carpet in less than eight hours.

Flower carpet brussels 2018.

Flower carpet 2016. In 2018 it was twenty years exactly since the grand place in brussels was recognised as a unesco world heritage site. 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. Flower carpet 2018.

It is home to brussels city hall which has the best view of the flower carpet. Nearly a million flowers are required to create the ephemeral 1 800 square metres 19 000 square feet carpet. Every 2 years the grand place in brussels is covered with a flower carpet of begonias. Video from brussels grand place.

What better way to celebrate this than. Discover the flower carpet 2018 press release. The event takes place every other august coordinating with assumption day. The flower carpet is 70 m long by 24 m wide.

The 2018 theme of the flower carpet was mexico. His sketch was developed by mexican artist ana rosa aguilar aguado. 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. Opening hours and tickets more info on the opening hours and the tickets for the view.

During the flower carpet dozens of carpet artists from all over the world gathered in the belgian capital for a floral unesco exhibition at brussels bourse square. 1 680 m2 of begonias dahlias grass and bark. 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. The pattern of the flower carpet in 2018 is recognized as one of the most complex in the history of the belgian flower show.

The first flower carpet of brussels was created in 1971 and has been a showstopper every two years on the grand place since 1986. 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 carpet of 77 m x 24 m is composed by about 120 volunteers with nearly 1 million begonias in less than 4 hours.