Knokke-Heist

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Knokke -Heist is a city on the Belgian North Sea coast in the province of West Flanders, on the border with the Netherlands.

Districts

  • Duinbergen
  • Knokke
  • Heist
  • Ramskapelle
  • West Chapel
  • Zoute

Tourism

Tourist attraction is the Twelve long fine -grained sand beach with five sections guarded beach and the sand dunes. The beach promenade is almost continuous built with multi-storey apartment buildings, which are used as holiday homes. At the eastern end of the town to the nature reserve Het Zwin follows, which includes 150 acres and breeding grounds of rare bird species. The adjacent " Vlindertuin ", a butterfly garden with 400 free-flying exotic butterflies was in October 2010, closed. Through the polder landscape of 3500 ha of marked cycling and hiking trails. The many designer shops and expensive noble hotels make Knokke Knokke Zoute and particularly to a Wochenendzufluchtsort for rich Belgian, German, Dutch and Luxembourg. The most affluent audience in Knokke can embark on extensive shopping tours, as the brand diversity is very large in Zoute (for example:. Louis Vuitton, Ralph Lauren, Armani, Prada, Hermes Paris, Moncler and Fay )

Prices of holiday properties to achieve here peak values ​​of up to 15,000 euros per square meter. The casino of 1930 indicated by its Art Deco features attention to the early days as a fashionable seaside resort Knokke.

Traffic

Railway stations in Knokke Heist and with connections to Bruges, Ghent, Brussels, Liege. There is a coastal tram ( Kusttram ) you can reach all places on the Belgian coast, Knokke is the northern endpoint.

Airfield Knokke -Le Zoute

East of the village existed 1929-1960 the small airfield Knokke -Le Zoute, which was used for both civilian and military.

The latter in the period prior to and shortly after the end of World War II Aviation Militaire Belge through, German Luftwaffe and the British Royal Air Force ( RAF). The Air Force had stationed here only Flak, the RAF on the court designated by it as Airfield B.83 until October 1945, the 142 Squadron with the 290th Squadron, a Spitfire squadron.

Personalities

  • Corneille Heymans (1892-1968 Knokke ), Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize winner for Medicine ( 1938)
  • Hans Vermeersch ( * 1957 in Knokke ), Belgian composer and conductor

Pictures

Old Fischerkapellchen

Old lighthouse in Heist

Residential For Sale in Knokke -Heist

Casino Knokke

Royal Belgian Sailing Club Knokke

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