Mini-Europe

Mini-Europe is a miniature park placed in Bruparck, on the foot of the Atomium, in Brussels, Belgium. Mini-Europe has reproductions of monuments inside the European Union on show, at a scale of 1:25. Roughly eighty cities and 350 buildings are represented. Mini-Europe receives 350,000 site visitors in keeping with year and has a turnover of €four million. The park incorporates stay movement models along with trains, generators, an erupting Mount Vesuvius, and cable vehicles. A guide offers the details on all of the monuments.

At the stop of the visit, the Spirit of Europe exhibition offers an interactive assessment of the European Union in the shape of multimedia games. The park is built on an area of 24,000 m2. The initial funding changed into of €10 million in 1989, on its inauguration through then-Prince Philip of Belgium. The monuments exposed are chosen for the best in their architecture or their European symbolism. Most of the monuments had been made the use of moulds. The very last copy was forged from epoxy resin, but nowadays polyester is used. Three of the monuments were constituted of stone.