Category: BRUGGE

BRUGES, BELGIUM 🇧🇪: IN BRUGES

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6jul19 Bruges, Belgium 🇧🇪

BRUGES, BELGIUM STREETART: DANCE OF FOOLS by STANSLABBINCK

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“Fools” is the nickname for the citizens of Bruges. “Brugse Zotten” = “The Bruges Fools.”

From the artist’s Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/stanslabbinck/?hl=en

“I made this mural for Legendz, a streetart festival in the centre of Bruges.

It tells the story of the legend of the bruges fools. This is the nickname of the citizens of the city of Bruges. In the 15th century there was a discontent between the Habsburg emperor Maximilian I of Austria and the people of Bruges, who sought more urban autonomy. After Maximilian of Austria was imprisoned for more than four months, the monarch imposed a ban on organizing annual fairs in Bruges.
This prohibition was a financial loss for Bruges, after which the city offered him a big party with the intention of spawning him. In this way, the people of Bruges could again ask for permission to hold an annual fair and also to build a new shelter for the mental ill. According to legend, Maximilian would have responded with the legendary words: ‘Close all the gates of Bruges and you have one big nuthouse.’ —- The four figures symbolize the four seasons.”

“I see a lot of fools who rule countries , walking high above their people.”

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BRUGGE, BELGIUM: LEAVING BRUGGE

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BRUGGE, BELGIUM: HOW LITTLE WE UNDERSTAND

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“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” ― Socrates

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BRUGGE, BELGIUM: PUT UP WALLS

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BRUGGE, BELGIUM: WHERE YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO WAS NEVER THERE

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“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place… Nothing outside you can give you any place… In yourself right now is all the place you’ve got.”
― Flannery O’Connor

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29aug15. Brugge, Belgium.

BRUGGE, BELGIUM: IF IT IS RIGHT, IT HAPPENS

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“And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – the main thing is not to hurry.Nothing good gets away.”
― John Steinbeck

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BRUGGE, BELGIUM: THE MIND IS A UNIVERSE

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“The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” ― John Milton

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BRUGGE, BELGIUM: TWO TRAGEDIES

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“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

From Brussels to Brugge in the early a.m. and walking through a quiet Brugge all morning…

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29aug15. Brugge, Belgium.