Blankenberge Seaside Resort North Sea West Flanders
Original vintage travel poster - Visitez Blankenberge Sa Plage Son Casino Son Pier Ses Bains Modernes / Visit Blankenberge Its Beach Its Casino Its Pier Its Modern Baths - featuring a great design by Armand van Reck (1901-1981) depicting a summer holiday scene showing a lady in a red swimsuit and blue swimming cap diving into the North Sea from a wooden rowing boat and a man climbing on board via a ladder on the side with the two boatmen in flat caps and life jackets watching the swimmers in the water in the foreground, a view of people on the sandy beach and the grand buildings in the background below a cloudy blue sky with the title text and an outline of the Art Deco pier / the Belgian Pier (built 1933) on the margin. The historic fishing village of Blankenberge is located in Belgium on the coastal West Flanders province, becoming a popular seaside resort town with wealthy tourists including Archduke Franz Ferdinand, other royals, the nobility and politicians from the 18th-19th century with mass tourism growing after WWII; the original pier was opened in 1894, replaced in 1933, and the original Casino Kursaal was built in 1859, replaced by an Art Deco casino in 1934; the Heist-Bruges railway opened in 1863. Printed by Litho L. Burghgraeve, Bruges. Good condition, restored tears, restored paper losses, restored folds, staining, backed on linen.
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