Ostend
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"Ostend is one of the most fashionable and cosmopolitan watering places in Europe."--Belgium and Holland: Handbook for Travellers (1891) by Baedeker |
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Ostend is a seaside resort at the Belgian Coast.
It is the location of the museum Mu.ZEE, the modernist Postgebouw van Oostende, the Casino-Kursaal d'Ostende by Stynen and the luxury Thermae Palace Hotel.
Extensive external shooting for the film Daughters of Darkness (1971) was done at the Royal Galleries of Ostend, the neoclassical arcade on the beach at Ostend and at the adjoining Thermae Palace Hotel.
Historically, it was the first stop on the Grand Tour.
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Notable residents
- Louise of Orléans, first queen of the Belgians
- Lilian Baels, princess
- Alfred Belpaire, locomotive engineer
- James Ensor, painter
- Etienne Elias, painter
- Marvin Gaye, singer
- Hubert Minnebo, sculptor
- Arno Hintjens, lead-singer of TC Matic
- Karel Jonckheere, writer
- Marie-José of Belgium, princess, then last queen of Italy
- Constant Permeke, expressionist painter
- Raoul Servais, filmmaker
- Gustaaf Sorel, painter
- Leon Spilliaert, painter
- Henri Storck, author, film-maker, and maker of documentaries
- Peter Van Heirseele, aka Herr Seele, cartoonist (Cowboy Henk), painter and performer
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See also
- Mathieu Corman
- Postgebouw van Oostende
- The Ostenders (1947) by Georges Simenon
- Oostende in de film
- The Groove
- King Leopold II statue (Ostend)
- Theater Aan Zee
- Casino-Kursaal d'Ostende
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