I found here in Berlin, the social model of Beginenhof or Béguinage, reloaded: quoting from Wikipedia, "...a Béguinage is a collection of small buildings used by Beguines, which were several lay sisterhoods of the Roman Catholic Church ... the 74-years-old sociologist Jutta Kamper proposed in 2000 Beginenhof, a social concept hosting only gentle-sex inhabitants: eight years later (with real-estate support by Kondor Wessels, the only men in this story) this community could ...
I visited there on vacation a few years ago, on the way to Chamonix. A lovely city, and somewhere in the old town area was a take-out gelato shop with some of the best gelato I've ever had. Your photos are especially beautiful! ... I liked the Grand Place in Bruxelles (the one taken at a 7mm focal length) and the Beguinage in Brugges, especially the pictures with the yellow dafodils. Bruxelles brought back good memories of Gueuse, Krieg and other beers I had the occasion ...
The city also has a large beguinage, well worth a visit. The population of the town increased rapidly after the Second World War. Thanks in part to the incorporation of surrounding villages, the population has doubled in the last twenty years ... Inside the Bacilica. Inside the Bacilica. It started to rain. The old city wall. The old city wall. The old city wall. The old city wall. The Roman wall. ? Previous Entry: Carolus Hotel Mec? Next Entry: Maastricht - the fall i? ? ...
