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09-04-2019
PV trip to Elburg
| Submitter: | Ger van Diepen |
| Description: | On Wednesday April 3rd the Personeelsvereniging ASTRON/JIVE has organised a trip to Elburg. Eleven people took part in a guided walk through the city and thereafter admired the sand sculptures in an old factory. We had cold weather, but it was dry. This time of year Elburg is not busy at all, but during the summer months many tourists flock the city. We have enjoyed the vist a lot. Elburg is small, but beautiful and counts 250 monuments and several musea. Around the year 1400 the old town was transformed to a fortified city with a straight street pattern by the Duke of Gelre. See https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elburg_(stad) for more info. Large parts of the old city walls are still visible. So-called muurhuizen (wall houses) have been built against the walls which helped in keeping the walls. Because hardly any industry came to life in Elburg, the city remained as it was. To phrase Johan Cruijff: ieder nadeel heb z'n voordeel. In the past 1.5 years many sand sculptures have been created in an old factory near the harbour of Elburg. Many carvers have worked many months to create a huge variety of figures and scenes, mostly based on the religious history (e.g, Beeldenstorm). The result is really outstanding; it greatly surpassed our expectations. The sculptures are beautiful ranging from huge pharaos and buildings to very tiny people walking on a path. The amount of detail is marvellous. But there is more than the sculptures. The designers have used a lot of other attributes such as boats, engines, doors of locks (sluizen) and many more to enrich the exhibition. It indeed makes it very enjoyable. All of us were very enthusiastic and we strongly recommend other people to pay a visit to Elburg (we don't get a bonus or so :-). |
| Copyright: | Ger van Diepen, Yan Grange, Bram Veenboer |
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