Exposition universelle et internationale (1913)
Plan of the exhibition area of the world exhibition 1913 in Ghent
The World Expo 1913 in Ghent (nl: Wereldtentoonstelling Gent 1913) was the 19th by the Bureau of International Expositions ( BIE) recognized World's Fair. It took place until November 3, 1913 by April 26, 1913. As a 130 -acre showground you used the district Sint -Pieters- Aalst and today's Citadel Park. 9.5 million visitors attended the World's Fair.
History
Flowers and the colonies were the subjects of the Great Exhibition of 1913: Ghent, center of Floriculture and accordingly coined a lush floral splendor of the exhibition.
In the Citadel Park, a Senegalese and a Philippine village were built by 128 Senegalese and 60 Filipinos " issued" were. Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, India and the Belgian Congo had their own pavilions. Congo pavilion was a 15 -meter-high rotunda with a diameter of 152 meters and housed a panoramic exhibition, which was published the Belgian imperialism in the best light.
In Philippine village early November nine natives died of hypothermia. They were accommodated all the time in the built for other climatic conditions huts. It also turned out that they had been starving for a long time, as the agency that they had brought to Ghent, went bankrupt and paid them no more reward.
Further attractions were the highest water slide in the world and a replica of a medieval Flemish settlement.
24 countries were officially represented, Germany and Italy only unofficially. The exhibition in Ghent was the last world exhibition before the First World War and the last show with a human zoo.
Het Kuipke
The former flower exhibition and festival hall " Floraliënpaleis " the World's Fair was until 1962, when it fell victim to a fire, as an event hall, Het Kuipke called, used, in which took place also the Six Days of Ghent.
Gallery
Electrical pylons details
Bronze statue " Ros Beyaert " by Alois de bump and Domien Ingels made for the Universal Exhibition of 1913
Tram line at the World Exhibition of 1913
Exhibition grounds in 1913 Gent
Colonial palace of the Belgian Congo at the World Exhibition of 1913