Beaufort hiking route Knokke-Heist
Beaufort hiking route Knokke-Heist
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Beaufort hiking route Knokke-Heist
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9.54km
30m
Hiking
Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.
Last updated: August 9, 2024
Waypoints
Start point
Parking
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740 m
Tourist Office
Highlight • Rest Area
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2.43 km
Knokke Town Hall
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2.77 km
Beach Houses Sculpture
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The formation doesn't look like it was strictly planned. Rather, it looks as if the cabins were sucked into the air by a great gust of storm and scattered around, after which they happened to get stuck together and have been left behind.
Fourtou has been fascinated by architecture for years. In earlier works he used houses and interiors that reminded him of his childhood. He copied them exactly with surrealistic dimensions or turned them upside down.
It's no surprise that the beach cabins caught Fourtou's attention, with their typical architecture and history.
The cabins are as old as Belgian tourism itself and were initially mainly used as changing rooms for women.
Today, the dimensions and shapes are regulated per coastal municipality.
Most of the cabins you will find on the Belgian coast have been incorporated into Fourtou's sculpture.
The work has a prominent place in the municipality, giving it the allure of a totem or an emblem of the coastal municipality.
Since totems originally represented the people of a community, the structure can be seen as a monument to beach culture, symbolizing the unity of beach culture that represents the entire coast.
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3.79 km
Lake Zegemeer
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4.65 km
Park 58
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9.54 km
End point
Parking
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
3.73 km
2.42 km
1.95 km
1.01 km
245 m
136 m
Surfaces
6.54 km
1.71 km
800 m
275 m
153 m
< 100 m
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