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![]() The Zwin Nature Reserve has been a protected landscape since 1939, when it was protected from agricultural development. In 1952 it became a Nature Reserve, the country’s oldest. Close to the Dutch border, around the coastal town of Knokke-Heist, t’ Zwin Nature Reserve was a novel idea back in 1952 and was the pioneering work of Count Léon Lippens. |
![]() THE MINNEWATER OR THE LAKE OF LOVE– Known in English as the Lake of Love, the Minnewater harks back to Bruges’ medieval heyday. This waterway was a dock from where ships as far afield as Russia came laden with cargoes of wool, wine, spices and silks and left loaded with Flemish cloth. A legend tells the story of a young and pretty girl named Minna who was in love with Stromberg, a warrior of a neighbouring tribe. Her father did not agree with her love and arranged her to marry a man of his choice. |
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