The flower carpet is 70 m long by 24 m wide.
Flower carpet brussels 2018.
The event takes place every other august coordinating with assumption day.
What better way to celebrate this than.
Discover the flower carpet 2018 press release.
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.
The carpet of 77 m x 24 m is composed by about 120 volunteers with nearly 1 million begonias in less than 4 hours.
It is home to brussels city hall which has the best view of the flower carpet.
Video from brussels grand place.
The first flower carpet of brussels was created in 1971 and has been a showstopper every two years on the grand place since 1986.
From 13 to 16 august 2020 at the grand place in brussels.
His sketch was developed by mexican artist ana rosa aguilar aguado.
1 680 m2 of begonias dahlias grass and bark.
The grand place itself is a gorgeous square built in the 1400s and has been a unesco world heritage site since 1998.
A hundred volunteers assemble the carpet in less than eight hours.
Nearly a million flowers are required to create the ephemeral 1 800 square metres 19 000 square feet carpet.
The 2018 theme of the flower carpet was mexico.
Discover the flower carpet 2016 press release.
Every 2 years the grand place in brussels is covered with a flower carpet of begonias.
Opening hours and tickets more info on the opening hours and the tickets for the view.
In 2018 it was twenty years exactly since the grand place in brussels was recognised as a unesco world heritage site.
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.
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.
Flower carpet 2016.
The pattern of the flower carpet in 2018 is recognized as one of the most complex in the history of the belgian flower show.