Province of : West-Flanders
City : Brugge
Address : Grote Markt
Postal code : 8000
place : House 'Bouchoute'
Year of the sundial : 1839
Restoration : 1995
Project leader : Adolphe Quetelet
Photo : 2002
Type : Meridian line
Remark :
The extremity of the imaginary style is actually the yellow copper bowl on the roof the building.
This is one of the six still remaining meridian lines of Adolphe Quetelet, built in order to get a reliable mean hour reading of the schedules when the Belgian railways began to run.




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