Monumenten
Lighthouse Lange Nelle Oostende
De Lange Nelle is the lighthouse of Oostende. It is one of the four still functioning lighthouses along the Belgian coast; the others are Newport, Blankenberge Heist. The tower extends 65 meters above the sea and the lamp with Fresnel lenses is positioned at a height of 70 meters. The stairs of the tower has 324 ...
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St. Peter and Paul Church
The neo-Gothic St. Peter and Paul's church was designed by the Belgian architect Louis Delacenserie. A man who had a lot of fame during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The train station in Antwerp was also by his design. This Ostend church has many interesting and exceptional details. Beautiful statues and flying buttresses adorn the outer facades. Different colored windows create a ...
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Fort Napoleon
At the end of the 18th century France annexed Belgium. Napoleon feared an attack from England at the port of Ostend and therefore built an impressive fort in the dunes in 1811. A British attack never happened. After that, the fort mainly functioned as an armory and a location for the French army. And after the fall of Napoleon in 1814, it fell prey to theft and vandalism. In both world wars ...
