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De Haan is cherished as one of
the most attractive and agree-
able of the resorts, with a good
beach, and controlled devel-
opment that has preserved the
handsome, early 20th-century
villas. The name, meaning The
Cock (Le Coq in French), was
given to the town following
a legend that fishermen were
once led to safety here by a
cock crowing on the beach.

Knokke- Het Zoute
heist
Zeebrugge Zwin Natuur Park
Blankenberge
Sluis
De Haan
Bredene
Damme

Bruges

Jabbeke
Blankenberge town has a pier, a 2-km
Gistel Oostkamp (1-mile) long zeedijk (raised promenade),
and plenty of holiday entertainment includ-
ing the National Sealife Marine Park and the
Serpentarium. The annual summer Sand
Zwin Natuur Park Sculpture Festival is currently held here,
(see p125) is a nature inspiring breathtakingly ambitious work.
reserve containing
dunes and tidal ponds,
frequented by
migratory birds.
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Knokke-Heist (see p124) is considered the
most chic of Belgium’s coastal resorts. The
Zeebrugge (see p124) is the largest commercial port on tiny Neo-Gothic Fishermen’s Chapel in Heist
this coast and also has a popular beach. A 1960s Soviet was built in 1892. Today, it is dwarfed by the
submarine and an old lightship are two of the exhibits modern architecture of this western urban
at Seafront Zeebrugge, the town’s main attraction. end of Knokke-Heist.

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