Leopoldpark — Attraction in Ostend

The Eggevoorde Estate had dominated the Maelbeek valley in Brussels since the Middle Ages, but portions had been sold off in the following centuries. In 1851, a portion was sold off in exchange for shares in the Zoological and Horticultural Society, and the area became what is today Leopold Park. The park was intended to be a home for scientific and leisure activities. Horticultural gardens and a zoo were created along with a community hall, a reading room, and a café-restaurant. However, the zoo was poorly managed and the management company went bankrupt in 1876. The horticultural gardens on the other hand were quite successfully managed by Jean Jules Linden, and they became a commercial and scientific success story until 1898, when they were sold. The City of Brussels bought the old zoological gardens and converted them into a public recreational park containing a variety of diversions, including the current Museum of Natural Sciences. The 1927 Solvay Conference in Brussels was the fifth world physics conference. In 1884, Ernest Solvay and Paul Héger, professors at the Université Libre de Bruxelles began a project to create an expanded university campus in the park. Several of the university's new institutes were created in the park, and stand to this day, including the original site of the Solvay Institute of Sociology, as well as its sister institution, the Solvay Institute of Physiology, which was completed in 1894. It was in that building that the famous Fifth Solvay Conference on Physics and on Chemistry took place in October 1927. During the following years, a campus for the Solvay School of Commerce was established but construction of additional buildings was soon curtailed for fear of encroachment on the park and its fragile wildlife. In 1930, the Lycée Émile Jacqmain secondary school moved into the former Institute of Physiology. These buildings have remained to this day but only one still belongs to Solvay (and houses the Solvay...

Nice park in Ostend. When there's no special activities you can go for short walks or a drink in the bar which is hidden in the greenery. Don't forget to check out the giant flower watch at the entrance of the park oposite the casino. The flower arangement changes often so don't assume you've seen it all when you've been there once. Other than that there's a couple of ponds where birds come feeding, so that provides some good kid's...

Loved this very well decorated park. Enough green to forget it's in a big busy big tough city on the coast.

Often times you can find activities to be done for all sorts of festivities.

It is by far not the biggest green investment in comparison to other cities. Still a quiet and lovely place to walk and enjoy.

The place is pretty clean and not too...