MONS - SUNFLOWER MAZE

Mons is a Belgian city and municipality, and the capital of the province of Hainaut in the French speaking part of Belgium.

It’s easy to forget that Mons was once a mining town, because it’s now more like Silicon Hill. Internet search giant Google has built a huge data centre outside the town, creating a digital community among the abandoned pits.

This year Mons was chosen to be the European Capital of Culture and  is host to one of the greatest painters of all time. In 2015, Vincent van Gogh is in Mons. Or rather, he is returning there. Because it was in the Borinage that the great man changed career, from preacher to artist. It was in the Borinage that he spent a watershed period in his life and in his art. The steps he took at that time were, and remain still, essential elements that need to be understood.

In his honor on the Grand-Place, during a week in July you could get lost in a maze of 8.000 sunflowers ! I absolutely wanted to see this maze and wasn't disappointed ! It was beautiful !



From far I saw all these people queuing up to enter the maze



From outside I saw the sunflowers



I had waited a bit and had lunch before I went up on the scaffold, as there were less people



It was a real good idea



You could see the people from above







and I had an overview of the whole place



Then I saw the maze


People wandered around







suddenly I saw the head of van Gogh !



a shoe



and a chair, which he had painted



I continued my way got twice wrong but finally found the exit






Then I strolled around the place and admired the city hall



There were many restaurants all around the place



The theater

I really enjoyed this very special maze a lot !