Windmills and Canals in Bruges - Belgium 4K Travel Channel
Not only the Netherlands has its windmills. Since the end of the 13th-century windmills were built in Bruges along the original ramparts. Some windmills stand nearby the city center, and so we decide to take a walk along the canals to see them. Along the Speelmansrei Und Augustijnenrei Canal which runs directly behind our accommodation, the hotel Bryghia, we stroll in eastern direction. The picturesque scenery offers marvelous photo motifs.
We cross the Langrei Canal and walk along the Carmersstraat. The scenery increasingly changes into a suburb. Here are strikingly many B&B accommodations.
Passing the English Convent, a large convent, we reach the St. Sebastiansgilde, Kon. Hoofgilde.
The Guild of Saint Sebastian is the only archers' guild in the world that exists already more than 600 years. The guild has two famous female members, Queen Matilda of Belgium and the Queen of England.
Just around the corner, we reach the first windmills on the hills of the ancient rampart. The place assured that the wind could blow straight onto the windmills. These were mounted centrally on large wooden beams, to orientate it to the wind.
The Sint-Janshuismolen, St. Janhuis Mill, built-in 1770, is the only windmill still standing in its original place today. The mill is still fully functional and now houses a museum. It can be visited daily, from April to September, except on Mondays.
Behind the ancient rampart runs a canal, where we see a modern barge passing by.
Further south, we reach Kruispoort Gate, an imposing city gate. Today's city gate is the third version of the gate. The first gate was built here from 1297 to 1304 and replaced in 1366. After the capture of Bruges by the citizens of Ghent in 1382, Philipp van Artevelde destroyed the gate. One built the third version of Kruispoort in 1400.
In the distance, we can still see that one of the windmills is moving.
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Nicht nur die Niederlande haben ihre Windmühlen. Seit Ende des 13. Jahrhunderts wurden in Brügge entlang der ursprünglichen Stadtmauer Windmühlen gebaut. Einige Windmühlen stehen unweit des Stadtzentrums und so machen wir einen Spaziergang entlang der Kanäle um sie zu sehen.
Entlang des Speelmansrei und Augustijnenrei Kanals, der direkt hinter unserer Unterkunft, dem Hotel Bryghia verläuft, gehen wir in Richtung Osten. Die malerische Kulisse bietet herrliche Photomotive.
Wir überqueren den Langrei Kanal und spazieren die Carmersstraat entlang. Die Kulisse wandelt sich vermehrt in ein Vorortviertel. Hier gibt es auffällig viele B&B Unterkünfte.
Am Englischen Konvent, einem großen Frauenkloster vorbei erreichen wir die St. Sebastiansgilde, Kon. Hoofgilde.
Die St. Sebastiansgilde ist die einzige Bogenschützengilde der Welt, die bereits seit 600 Jahren existiert. Die Gilde hat zwei berühmte weibliche Mitglieder, Königin Mathilde von Belgien und die Königin von England.
Gleich um die Ecke erreichen wir die ersten Windmühlen auf den Hügeln der ehemaligen Stadtmauer. Die Lage gewährleistete, dass sie vom Wind ungehindert erreicht werden. Die Windmühlen sind auf großen Holzbalken zentral gelagert und können somit im Wind ausgerichtet werden.
Die Sint-Janshuismolen, St. Janhuis Mühle, aus dem Jahre 1770, ist die einzige Windmühle, die heute noch an ihrem ursprünglichen Platz steht. Die noch voll funktionsfähige Mühle beherbergt heute ein Museum. Sie kann von April bis September, täglich, außer Montags, besichtigt werden.
Hinter der ehemaligen Stadtmauer verläuft ein Kanal, der gerade von einem modernen Frachtkahn passiert wird.
Weiter in Richtung Süden erreichen wir die Kruispoort, das Kreuztor, ein imposantes Stadttor. Das heutige Stadttor ist bereits das dritte Tor an dieser Stelle. Das erste Tor wurde von 1297 bis 1304 hier errichtet und 1366 ersetzt. Nach der Einnahme von Brügge durch die Genter Bürger im Jahre 1382 wurde das Tor von Philipp van Artevelde zerstört. Im Jahre 1400 baute man die dritte Version der Kruispoort.
In der Ferne sehen wir noch, dass sich eines der Windräder in Bewegung setzt.
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A translation into English of 'The evening and the rose' by the Flemish poet Guido Gezelle.
A note for my anglophone listeners and viewers.
Guido Gezelle was born in Bruges in the Belgian province of West Flanders, where he also spent most of his life. He was ordained a priest in 1854, and worked as a teacher and priest in Roeselare. He was always interested in all things in English and was given the prestigious right of being the priest for the 'English Convent' in Bruges.
He tried to develop an independent Flemish language, more or less separated from the general Dutch language, which had certain more Hollandic aspects. The Dutch he used in his poems was heavily influenced by the local West Flemish dialect. His works are often inspired by his mystic love towards God and Creation. Later, his poetry was associated with literary Impressionism, and he is considered a forerunner of that movement. In a British context we might connect him with Robert Burns who also used his local Scottish idiom in his poems, but also with Wordsworth, Hopkins and Tennyson.
Guido Gezelle can be considered the most revered Flemish poet of all times.
He is, in fact, the most creative and innovating of them all. For his linguistical mastery, Gezelle is till today considered one of the most important poets in the Dutch language.
The poem 'The evening and the rose' is probably his most beloved. It found its origin in a visit one evening paid to him by one of his favourite pupils, Eugene van Oye, who on this occasion presented him a rose, hence 'the evening and the rose'.
The translation was made by a Flemish poetess, the late Christine D'haen.
The poem is read by the voice of a non native speaker of English.
I posted the original version of the poem several months ago on YouTube. The link is:
Belgium: The Grand Béguinage of Leuven
The Grand Béguinage of Leuven, or in Dutch Groot Begijnhof van Leuven is a well preserved and completely restored historical quarter containing a dozen of streets in the south of downtown Leuven. About 3 hectares (7.5 acres) in size, with some 300 apartments in almost 100 houses, it is one of the largest still existing beguinages in the Low Countries. The béguinage stretches on both sides of the river Dijle, which splits into two canals inside the béguinage, thus forming an island. Three bridges connect the parts of the beguinage.
The Grand Béguinage (Groot Begijnhof) has the appearance of a small town in the city. It is a succession of streets, squares, gardens and parks, with tens of houses and convents in traditional brick and sandstone style.
As a community for unmarried, semi-religious women (see Béguine), this béguinage originated in the early 13th century. The last priest of the Beguine community died in 1977 at the age of 107. He is buried in the graveyard of Park Abbey. The last Beguine died in 1988.
In that year, the béguinage was officially recognised by Unesco as a World Heritage Site.
Nowadays the complete béguinage is owned by the University of Leuven and used as a campus, especially for housing students and academic guests.
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Youghal Lace - Faces behind the Lace
Youghal Lace - The Faces behind the Lace
This short film brings you inside the lace making rooms at the Presentation Convent Youghal, Co. Cork and shows the incredible detailed work by the women and children in making the Youghal lace. It was a time just after The Great Hunger - The Irish Famine - A period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1849. The evocative images and music brings you back to that time and puts a face to those women and children who created the lace in that traumatic time in Irish history.
- During the Great Hunger (Irish Famine) of the mid-1800’s, a piece of Italian lace was unraveled by a nun, Mother Mary Ann Smith of Presentation Convent, Youghal, and carefully examined until the stitches were mastered. She then selected the children capable of the best needlework and taught them what she had learned. Their newly acquired skills brought money into their homes at a time when it was sorely needed to pay rent and buy food. No doubt quite a few evictions were avoided by those industrious children.
The Convent Lace School was opened in 1852 and in 1863 a shawl of Youghal Lace was presented to the Princess of Wales on the occasion of her marriage to the future King Edward VII. It was the first of many presentations to the Royal Family. Queen Victoria’s coronation veil was made of Youghal Lace, as was a train worn by Queen Mary on a visit to India in 1911.
Several medals were awarded to Youghal Lace in international exhibitions over the years including the Chicago World’s Fair 1893 and the Exhibition of British Lace in London 1906. After Mary Ann Smith’s death in 1872, the work in the lace room was carried on by Sister Mary Regis Lynch, who produced many new designs. The Lace School flourished until World War I, which effectively did away with many lace markets. However, Youghal Lace continued until the late 1950s.
In 1987 history repeated itself when another nun from Presentation Convent Youghal, Sister Mary Coleman, along with Veronica Stuart from Carrigaline, Co. Cork, unraveled a piece of Youghal Lace, as Mary Ann Smith had done. The stitch work was studied and techniques noted, with Veronica Stuart even traveling to the Continent to perfect her skills in needle-lace. In 1989 she began to teach Youghal Needlelace, ensuring its survival. It is still being made today, having its own range of 100 separate stitches and is known for a hallmark shell border, alluding to the town’s marine history.
Festival Compostela 03-04.06.2017
Le samedi 03 juin le Festival Compostela débute par un défilé folklorique dans les rues du centre historique de la capitale, Manneken Pis habillé en pèlerin, une exposition sur l’Emigration galicienne des années ‘20, une conférence avec l’historien Roel Jacobs « Le Béguinage et Compostelle » et sur la scène de La Tentation les concerts des artistes invités Iñaki Plaza&Band (Euskadi), Tejedor (Asturias) et Susana Seivane (Galicia).
Le dimanche 04 juin place aux familles et aux enfants avec une édition spécialement dédiée à la Galice du projet “Sunday Family Brunch” avec le groupe Pesdelán (Galicia) et un bal dansant “Domingo Latino” avec les Mambo Sins (Galicia) et Banda Bruselas (Belgique) pour danser jusqu’aux aurores.
Tout au long du week-end sur la Place du Béguinage des stands de gastronomie espagnole, avec une authentique “Pulpeira” venue tout droit de la Galice, un espace de récréation pour les enfants et sur la scène plusieurs prestations de danses et musique traditionnelles et latines entre 14h et 20h.
Une programmation haute en couleurs qui attisera les sens et suscitera la curiosité du public bruxellois!
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Hotel De Orangerie - Small Luxury Hotels of the World 4 Stars Hotel in Bruges, Belgium
Hotel De Orangerie - Small Luxury Hotels of the World 4 Stars Hotel in Bruges, Belgium Within US Travel Directory Stay in the heart of Bruges One of our top picks in Bruges. Good value for couples. They rate the value for money 8.Hotel de Orangerie offers spacious guest rooms in a 15th-century former convent along the picturesque Dijver Canal, 250 m from the Market Square and the Belfry of Bruges. It features free WiFi, a garden and a waterside terrace.
Each of the air-conditioned rooms at De Orangerie benefits from a flat-screen TV with cable channels and a marble bathroom with a hairdryer and free toiletries.
All rooms comes with coffee and tea-making facilities.
Guests can enjoy a daily buffet-style breakfast in the breakfast room which overlooks the water.
The buffet includes muesli, yoghurt and several varieties of fresh bread.
Warm dishes such as eggs and bacon are also included.
Hotel de Orangerie boasts a lounge with an open fireplace.
The hotel also offers coffee, an aperitif or typical English High Tea on the terrace along the canal.
Small lunch dishes are available at the hotel as well.
The Gruuthuse Museumisless than 30m fromthehotel.BrugesRailway Stationisjustovera 15-minute walkaway. Private parking facilities are available upon request and for a charge. Historical Centre of Brugge is a great choice for travellers interested in beer, ambience and museums.
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Psallentes' Hadewijch: Ay, in welken soe verbaerd de tijt (Mariae praeconio)
[NL] Uit Psallentes' winterproductie Koningskind, deze 'Ay, in welken soe verbaerd de tijt'. De dertiende-eeuwse mystica Hadewijch dichtte dit lied op de Latijnse sequens Mariae praeconio, waarvan ze aan het einde van de strofen telkens enkele woorden citeerde. Voor deze versie baseerde Psallentes zich op het werk van Louis Grijp en Ike de Loos in de bundel Hadewijch Liederen, uitgegeven door Veerle Fraeters en Frank Willaert bij de Historische Uitgeverij, 2009. De melodie werd door Hendrik Vanden Abeele aangepast op basis van een versie van de Mariae praeconio in een Brugs graduale uit de vijftiende eeuw. Dat graduale (Brugge, OCMW-archief, zonder nummer) was bestemd voor het Magdalenaklooster.
[ENG] From Psallentes' winter production Royal Offspring. This song by the thirteenth-century poet Hadewijch was based on the Latin sequence Mariae praeconio, of which Hadewijch cites a few words at the end of each strophe. Louis Grijp and Ike de Loos made a transcription of the song in the book Hadewijch Liederen, edited by Veerle Fraeters and Frank Willaert (Historische Uitgeverij, 2009). The melody was adapted by Hendrik Vanden Abeele based on a version of the Mariae praeconio in a Gradual from Bruges, late fifteenth-century. This Gradual (Bruges, OCMW-archives, no number) was ordered by the Magdalen Cloister.
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Barbara Somers, Kerlijne Van Nevel, Rozelien Nys, alten/altos
Marina Smolders, Sarah Abrams, Veerle Van Roosbroeck, sopranen/sopranos
Manuela Bucher, vedel/vielle
Hendrik Vanden Abeele, artistic direction
Shot and edited by Wim Vanmechelen
Sound recording by Hendrik Vanden Abeele - Le Bricoleur
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Oktober/November 2013
Onderstaande vertaling is van Veerle Fraeters en Frank Willaert (Historisch Uitgeverij, 2009). No English translation available (yet).
1a
Ay, in welken soe verbaerd de tijt,
en es in al de werelt wijt
dat mi gheven mach delijt
dan verus amor.
Ach, hoe het seizoen er ook uitziet,
in de hele wijde wereld is er niets
dat mij vreugde kan schenken
behalve ware minne.
1b
Ay minne, op trouwe, want gi al sijt
miere zielen joie, mier herten vlijt,
ontfaermt der noet, siet ane den strijt,
hort cordis clamor.
Ach minne, in hoop op je trouw, want jij bent heel
de blijdschap van mijn ziel, de lust van mijn hart:
heb meelij met mijn nood, aanzie mijn strijd,
hoor mijn hartenkreet.
2a
Ay, wat ic mijn wee roepe ende clage,
de minne doe met mi hare behaghe.
Ic wille hare gheven al mine daghe
laus et honor.
Ach, hoe ik mijn pijn ook uitschreeuw en beklaag,
de minne mag doen met mij wat ze wil.
Ik wil haar al mijn dagen geven:
lof en eer.
2b
Ay minne, ochte trouwe uwe oghe anezaghe!
Want mi maect coene dat ics ghewage.
Want mi ierst up uwe hog he stage
uwe traxit odor.
Ach minne, mocht je oog toch mijn trouw bezien!
Want daarvan te gewagen geeft mij moed.
Want naar je hoge hoogten
trok mij eerst jouw geur.
3a
Ay minne, ja gi, die nie en loghet,
want ghi mi toenet in der joghet
daer ic na quele. Want ghijt vermoget,
sijt medicina.
Ach minne, ja jij, die nooit loog,
omdat jij me in mijn jeugd datgene getoond hebt
waar ik naar smacht. Omdat jij het kunt,
wees medicijn.
3b
Ay ja, minne, ghi die als sijt voghet,
ghevet mi omme minnen dies mi meest hoghet,
want ghi sijt moeder alre doghet,
vrouwe et regina.
Ach ja, minne, jij die over alles heerst,
geef me omwille van minne wat me het meest verheugt.
Want jij bent de moeder van alle deugden,
vrouwe en koningin.
4a
Ay, werde minne, fine pure,
wan siedi ane hoe ic ghedure?
Ende sijt in mine bettere zuere
condimentum.
Ach, hooggeëerde minne, edel en zuiver,
waarom zie je niet hoe ik standhoud?
En wees in mijn bittere ellende
leniging.
4b
Ay, ic dole te swaer in de avonture.
Mi sijn al andere saken suere.
Volgevet mi, minne, uwe hoghe nature
sacramentum.
Ach, ik dool te zeer in het avontuur.
Alle andere zaken zijn mij zuur.
Geef mij, minne, je hoge natuur helemaal
als een heilig mysterie.
5a
Ay, ben ic in vrome ochte in scade,
si al, minne, bi uwen rade.
Uwe slaghen sijn mi genoech genade
Redemptori.
Ach, ben ik in het voor- of in het nadeel,
moge alles, minne, gaan volgens jouw raadsbesluit.
Jouw slagen zijn voor mij voldoende genade
in de ogen van de Verlosser.
5b
Ay, wadic gewat, clemmic up grade,
bennic in honger ochte in sade,
dat ic u, minne, genoeg voldade,
bene mori.
Ach, of ik door het diepe waad of steile wegen klim,
of ik hongerig of verzadigd ben,
mocht ik jou, minne, totale voldoening geven
en goed sterven.
Amen.
Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex (UNESCO/NHK)
The Plantin-Moretus Museum is a printing plant and publishing house dating from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Situated in Antwerp, one of the three leading cities of early European printing along with Paris and Venice, it is associated with the history of the invention and spread of typography. Its name refers to the greatest printer-publisher of the second half of the 16th century: Christophe Plantin (c. 1520--89). The monument ...
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Deep Roots Episode 5: The Beguines
This episode remembers the beguines–a medieval lay women’s movement that that stressed imitation of Christ’s life through simplicity, care of the poor and sick, and religious devotion. By being a movement of women apart from men,
Flemish Painting Exhibition (1947)
Unused / unissued footage - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown.
Paris, France
LS People queueing outside the Orangerie Palace, Paris to see the Flemish painting exhibition called Les Primitifs Flamands. CU Sign with name of exhibition, pan down to queue. LS Queue stretching back into the Place de la Concorde. LS A group of visitors to the gallery stand around one of the paintings. (2 shots). CU Detail of Pieta (1520) by Quentin Metsys, to full screen. CU Hand of Christ in Christ Blessing (1513) also by Quentin Metsys, pan up to Christ's face. CU Chanoine Carondelet (1540) by Gossaert, full screen. MS Girl with a dead bird (about 1540) by an unknown painter. CU Virgin amongst other virgins (1509) by Gerard David for the Convent of Carmelites of Bruges, pan across painting. CU The Last Supper (?) by Thierry Bouts (around 1464-1468). CU Pan down The birth of Christ by Roger van der Weyden. CU Details of Pieta, by Roger Van der Weyden. CU Picture of Antoine, Grand Batard de Bourgogne (1460) by Roger Van der Weyden. CU Reversible painting, possibly Florent Froimont (1450) by Roger Van der Weyden. CU Hands of same. CU Christ crowned with Thorns (1540) by Albert Bouts. CU The Virgin with the Child by Metsys. CU The Banker and his Wife, by Quentin Metsys.
Note: Date received on original paperwork reads: 18/6/47. Alternative spelling for search purposes: Metsys / Matys, Gossaert / Gossert.
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BELGIUM: BRUSSELS: PROTESTING FARMERS CLASH WITH POLICE
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Police in used water canons to disperse hundreds of angry farmers protesting in the streets of Brussels on Friday.
The angry farmers are demanding the reversal of a European Commission ruling banning Belgian milk and dairy products after the dioxin scandal hit last week.
Belgian farmers are facing huge financial losses if the ban is not lifted.
The Belgian government resigned on Sunday, blaming the scandal, which erupted after traces of the cancer-causing dioxin was found in Belgian meat.
The protestors said the European Commission is ignoring scientific evidence which backs their claims that Belgian dairy products are safe.
To prove their confidence in their own products, protestors made a show of eating and drinking their own home produce.
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The reason why we are here is to convince our government that the pressure on the European Commission has to be increased, because our producers are convinced that it is not fair that the European Commission does not receive the scientific arguments that the milk production is safe.
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SOUNDBITE: (French)
What's to be done? There are farms where the milk has already been poured away on the countryside, because - it's a scandal.
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Antwerp, Belgium
Images found while lost in the Belgian city of Antwerp. Thanks to David Beckley for the musical score.
Historic Arequipa, Peru in 4K Ultra HD
The city of Arequipa was founded by the Spanish in 1540. Right in the historic center of Arequipa is the Plaza de Armas, beautifully framed by 3 volcanoes, the 17th-century neoclassical Basilica Cathedral, and the Iglesia de la Compañia. The nearby Convent (Monasterio) de Santa Catalina was built in 1579. Its spectacular architecture integrates local and colonial styles from the 16th to 19th centuries.
The city was built initially with adobe and later with sillar (soft white volcanic rock, pink in some rare cases), which gives Arequipa the title the White City. The historic center of Arequipa is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it represents an integration of European and native building techniques and characteristics, expressed in the admirable work of colonial masters and Criollo and Indian masons. This combination of influences is illustrated by the city's robust walls, archways and vaults, courtyards and open spaces, and the intricate Baroque decoration of its facades. (unesco.org).
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Vivaldi's RV632, Sum in medio tempestatum, aria
Photos source : Edouard Boubat's Le Béguinage de Bruges (1956) b&w; Tourist Office Bruges (Springtime, Le Béguinage)
Music : Vivaldi's RV632 Sum in medio tempestatum, second aria, sung by Vivica Genaux
Lyrics : Semper maesta, sconsolata, suspirando, lacrimando, sum contenta, sum beata. Iam serenae rident stellae, iam non turbant me procellae: vado ad portum fortunata.
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I seldom go to Bruges (in Belgium) other than this time of the year, as spring arrives, my favourite spot Le Béguinage has a courtyard filled with blooming daffodils, so full of life and hope.
When I strolled around Bruges that afternoon and I found it hasn't changed much, I went through the usual familiar route and finally walked into Le Béguinage, to quote the English explication “Béguinage refers to a semi-monastic community of women called Beguines, religious women who sought to serve God without retiring from the world, as well as to the architectural complex that housed such a community.” (wiki).
The place is still that tranquil and charming. Some years ago I discussed with a colleague that I still saw beguines walking around there and always wonder what are their daily routines, and I got a question back “are there still beguines around these days?”. Yes I was wrong since these days there are only nuns there rather than beguines. Yet, I think about their religious devotion whenever I visit the site, somehow I even carry in my mind an episode from a movie “The Sound of Music”, when Maria seeks help from the Reverend Mother if she should love a man in the world, or to stay in the convent to serve God, finally Maria is being encouraged to face the man and to love him, here is the fascinating conversation between the two :
Maria: … I can’t face him again…That’s what’s been torturing me. I was there on God’s errand. To have asked for his love would have been wrong. I couldn’t stay, I just couldn’t. I’m ready at this moment to take my vows. Please help me.
Reverend Mother: Maria, the love of a man and a woman is holy too. You have a great capacity to love. What you must find out is how God wants you to spend your life.
Maria: But I pledged my life to God. I pledged my life to his service.
Reverend Mother: My daughter, if you love this man, it doesn’t mean you love God less. No, you must find out and you must go back.
Maria: Oh, Mother, you can’t ask me to do that. Please let me stay, I beg of you.
Reverend Mother: Maria, these walls were not built to shut out problems. You have to face them. You have to live the life you were born to live.
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Well, I think that's very true that “those walls were not built to shut out problems”!
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Het Verloren Paradijs - Full Movie
The story is set in a fictitious Flemish village where a motorway is due to be built. On one side there is the mayor, a loner who leads a solitary existence in his Château and wants to stop the motorway from cutting across his property. He suggests a route around the village, which would mean the eviction of a number of elderly residents. On the other side there is a shopkeeper from the village, who defies the burgomaster; using a woman who came between the two men in their youth, he tries to bring the landowner around to his just cause.
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