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We are in Brussels, capital of Belgium.
The film opens with the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula, the finest example of Brabantine Gothic architecture. Afterwards, we see the Royal Saint-Hubert Galleries which is an ensemble of glazed shopping arcades, designed and built by Jean-Pierre Cluysenaer between 1846 and 1847.
We see a panoramic view of the Grand Place of Brussels main square with the town hall, the Brussels City Museum that is housed in Maison du Roi/Broodhuis building and the Guilds of Brussels building which were associations of craft guilds that dominated the economic life of Brussels in the late medieval and early modern period.
The filmmaker show us the buildings' fine architecture and a woman who looks at the stores front. He, then, focuses on the Manneken Pis, a sculpted bronze fountain sculpture of a puer mingens in central Brussels, depicting a naked little boy urinating into the fountain's basin. The woman looks at a store’s front that has many miniatures-souvenirs of Manneken Pis but also various textiles.
We see modern architecture style buildings and the traffic in the streets while the filmmaker is on the move. We see Petit Sablon Square, a garden with trees, fences, flowers and statues, and in front of us is the Palace of Justice of Brussels or Law Courts on Poelaert / Poelaertplein Square.
The filmmaker and his girlfriend look at Brussels through specially designed binoculars and give us a panoramic view of the whole city. The camera zooms in on the famous Atomium building that was designed by engineer André Waterkeyn and architects André and Jean Polak and is 102 meters high.
The film closes with shots of the city from inside the car and we watch the Parc du Cinquantenaire park and the arch-monument (Cinquantenaire Arcade) as well as the impressive Atomium that today functions as a museum.
The film opens with the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula, the finest example of Brabantine Gothic architecture. Afterwards, we see the Royal Saint-Hubert Galleries which is an ensemble of glazed shopping arcades, designed and built by Jean-Pierre Cluysenaer between 1846 and 1847.
We see a panoramic view of the Grand Place of Brussels main square with the town hall, the Brussels City Museum that is housed in Maison du Roi/Broodhuis building and the Guilds of Brussels building which were associations of craft guilds that dominated the economic life of Brussels in the late medieval and early modern period.
The filmmaker show us the buildings' fine architecture and a woman who looks at the stores front. He, then, focuses on the Manneken Pis, a sculpted bronze fountain sculpture of a puer mingens in central Brussels, depicting a naked little boy urinating into the fountain's basin. The woman looks at a store’s front that has many miniatures-souvenirs of Manneken Pis but also various textiles.
We see modern architecture style buildings and the traffic in the streets while the filmmaker is on the move. We see Petit Sablon Square, a garden with trees, fences, flowers and statues, and in front of us is the Palace of Justice of Brussels or Law Courts on Poelaert / Poelaertplein Square.
The filmmaker and his girlfriend look at Brussels through specially designed binoculars and give us a panoramic view of the whole city. The camera zooms in on the famous Atomium building that was designed by engineer André Waterkeyn and architects André and Jean Polak and is 102 meters high.
The film closes with shots of the city from inside the car and we watch the Parc du Cinquantenaire park and the arch-monument (Cinquantenaire Arcade) as well as the impressive Atomium that today functions as a museum.
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