Château Grand Bigard: Playing with the sunlight - 2014

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Château Grand Bigard: # 4 of 10 - 2014

To enter the grounds of Château Grand Bigard you need to cross the stone bridge. The first thing you will see is the old Fortified Gate House built in the Fourteenth century. You will also be able to see a Fortified tower off to the left which is the Keep and is the oldest building. It was built around 1347.
The recorded history of Grand Bigard begins around 1110 with the first lord of Grand Bigard, Almaric de Bigard and has seen a succession of forty different owners since.

Crossing the stone bridge to THE Château Grand Bigard Fortified Gate House

View from the left side of the stone bridge (facing towards the Gate House)

View from the left side of the stone bridge (if going in direction towards the Gate House)

View from the left side of the stone bridge (if in direction of the Gate House)

View from the right side of the stone bridge (facing towards the Gate House)

View from the right side of the stone bridge (facing towards the Gate House)

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More visual delights from Chateau Grand Bigard

Tulips

View of Gate towers and bridge with swan in moat of Chateau Grand Bigard from flowery bank

Tulips

Purple Hyacinths and White Tulips

Meadow mix of Tulips, Daffodils, Muscari and Hyacinths

Tulips

Pink Hyacinths

Yellow tulips, Pale Yellow Hyacinths and Blue Muscari

Tulips and Hyacinth

Tulips

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Chateau Grand Bigrad a splendid visual feast

This post is includes more previosuly unpublished photos of my visit to Grand Bigard in 2012. Since I was unable to be there this year I thought that I might as well share more of the many photos I took. Please forgive me if I include any that have already been published in a previous post.
In this post I have selected photos to illustrate some of the mixed groupings of flowers and colours. If ever you are in Belgium during the period in which this is held for four weeks in early April till early May the annual flower show at Chateau Grand Bigrad is a definate MUST see.
I also strongly recommend getting the multiple entry pass as there is no way  you can see everything in one day unless you rush around and believe me their astinishing spectacle of floral colours and forms is not something you can or should want to rush through.

 

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Additional Information

For more information and pictures either click on the lable "Chateau  Grand Bigard" or this link to my first post on that visit. You can also visit the Grand Bigard official site for information as to the annual event.

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Hyacinths at Chateau Grand Bigard

Hyacinths at Chateau Grand Bigard


I have been going through some of the hundreds of photos I took in 2012 at Chateau Grand Bigard and posting some of those I have not et posted. For this post I decided to do one all on Hyacinths.

 

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·         The Blood of  Souls (language, translation and etymology) : http://thebloodofsouls.blogspot.com/

·         Whiskers on Kittens (Life with Kittens and Cats in general) : http://whiskersonkittens-vincent.blogspot.com/

 

Chateau Grand Bigard revisted - Part 2

Chateau Grand Bigard revisted - Part 2

Here are some more photos of my visit to Grand Chateau Grand Bigard two years ago.

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·         Flora and Fauna - Plants and Critters (on plants, animals as well as gardening, conservation and environmental matters)

·         The Blood of  Souls (language, translation and etymology)

·         Whiskers on Kittens (Life with Kittens and Cats in general)