A monument for King Albert

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After the Great War, Bruges wanted to erect an equestrian statue in honour of King Albert. This was complicated by the construction of other war memorials in the city. Finally, the city council took a final decision on the statue in 1938. However, Word War II meant that this initiative was placed on the back burner.

The memorial was finally inaugurated on 30 May 1954 not in 't Zand, as originally planned, but in the park along Koning Albert I-laan. It is both a liberation monument for Bruges and a badge of honour for the prematurely deceased monarch.

The Bruges sculptor Octave Rotsaert portrayed the ‘king-soldier' on horseback. He looks towards the Yser, where he led the Belgian soldiers at the front.

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Vl. Toeristisch bezienswaardigheden

| | Public | Dutch • French • German

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Koning Albert I-laan, Brugge

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