Grand Place Flower Carpet

The carpet of 77 m x 24 m is composed by about 120 volunteers with nearly 1 million begonias in less than 4 hours.

Grand place flower carpet.

The enchanting building is transformed into an idyllic place for a stroll. Around 300 begonias per square meter are assembled flower by flower by over 100 volunteers. In 1971 the belgian landscape architect e. The event takes place every other august coordinating with assumption day.

Every second summer the stunning square a must for architecture fans turns into a unique artistic and colorful tapestry. The entry hall the corridors the offices meeting and reception rooms are adorned with dozens of floral arrangements. Stautemans created the first unique flower carpet in belgium. Since then biennially in middle august the square which is surrounded by ancient buildings is covered with a giant flowers carpet.

This place is very easy to access by public transportation by bike or by car. 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 flower carpet takes place in the center of brussels at the grand place. He paved the grand place square in brussels with thousands flowers that created a splendid carpet.

In just one morning belgian begonia cultivators decorate 1 800 m 2 of brussels grand place with a beautiful floral carpet using over 600 000 begonias depicting a theme in 2018 the theme was be guanajuato cultural pride of mexico. The 2018 theme of the flower carpet was mexico. Every 2 years the grand place in brussels is covered with a flower carpet of begonias. Opening hours and tickets.

Every other summer in alternation with the flower carpet of the grand place the city hall of brussels receives flowertime.