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Cloth Hall (Ypres)

Cloth Hall (Ypres)

In the small town of Ypres in Belgium is a huge building Cloth Hall with 125-foot frontage. Chamber clothiers is Europe's largest Gothic structure. 

The construction of the House of clothiers took more than forty years. When shopping arcade building is 70 meters from the Belfort carillon bells to forty-nine, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. On the walls of the tower attached multicolored cats fabric. Previously existed in a strange tradition. Every year from the tower dumped cats. This tradition has been associated with a witch-hunt. In the early 19th century it was canceled in 1995 rekindled, but instead of live cats began to use the toy. 

During the First World War Chamber was almost completely destroyed and rebuilt completely by 1967. But at the base of the old buildings were laid stones. The modern version is a replica built of the old House of clothiers. 

The building is also worsted series museum called "In Flanders Fields." His exposition is devoted to the battles of World War I on the western front. 

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