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Muskau Park, Germany

The Muskau Park is the biggest and one of the most famous English-style parks of Germany and Poland. It cover 3.5 square kilometres of land in Poland and 2.1 in Germany. The park extends on both sides of the , which constitutes the border between the countries. The 17.9 square kilometers buffer zone around the park encompassed the Bad Muskau in the West and Polish Leknica in the East. The heart of the park are the partially wooded raised areas on the east bank of the river called The Park on Terraces. On July 2, 2004, the UNESCO inscribed the park on the , as an exemplary example of cross-border cultural collaboration between Poland and Germany. It was inscribed to the list on two criteria, for breaking new ground in terms of development towards the ideal man-made landscape, and its influence on the development of landscape architecture as a discipline. German .
GPS : 51° 33′ 1″ N, 14° 43′ 36″ E

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Belfry of Ghent, Ghent

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The 91-meter-high belfry of Ghent is one of three that overlook the old city center of Ghent, Belgium, the other two belonging to and Saint Nicholas’ Church. Through the centuries, it has served not only as a to announce the time and various warnings, but also as a fortified and town treasury. Construction of the tower began in 1313 to the design of Haelst, whose plans are still preserved in a museum. After continuing intermittently through wars, plagues and political turmoil, the work reached completion in 1380. It was near the end of this period that the gilded dragon assumed its place atop the tower. The uppermost parts of the building have been rebuilt several times, in part to accommodate the growing number of bells. The belfry of Ghent, together with its attached buildings, belongs to the set of belfries of Belgium and France inscribed on UNESCO’s . Great for Belgium .

GPS travel destination: 51° 3′ 12.96″ N, 3° 43′ 29.28″ E

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